Paramount meeting at Ramstein. The US base in Germany is hosting a meeting of countries supporting Ukraine on Friday, June 20. Kyiv hopes for this meeting “strong decisions”according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “We expect strong military support from the United States.”he said in particular in his speech on Thursday. A few hours earlier, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark announced substantial new arms deliveries to Ukraine. Follow our live.
New US aid of $2.5 billion. Washington will release a new military aid of 2.5 billion dollars, including 59 Bradley armored vehicles, which will be added to the 50 light armored vehicles of this type promised on January 6, and 90 Stryker armored personnel carriers. The US Army will also deliver to Ukraine 53 anti-mine armored vehicles (MRAP) and 350 M998 transport vehicles, the famous Humvee. This new installment brings total US military aid to Ukraine to $26.7 billion since the start of the conflict.
Not “a magic bullet”. Faced with Ukrainian insistence on receiving tanks, the commander Allied Forces Europe (SACEUR) assured that they are “not a miracle solution”. “A balance between all the systems is necessary,” he argued. “But it is clear that modern Western technology is better than Russian technology” on the battlefield in Ukraine, he said.
The fear of escalation. The Kremlin issued a clear warning on Thursday: the delivery of longer-range weapons “would mean that the conflict would reach a new level which would not promise anything good for European security”said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.