Germany announces new military aid package for Ukraine: it includes air defence systems
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said that Germany's new aid package to Ukraine will include four IRIS-T air defence systems and 100,000 pieces of artillery ammunition.
Source: European Pravda with reference to the German television news channel n-tv
Details: Pistorius made this statement on the sidelines of a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also known as the Ramstein group) in Brussels.
The package will also include 15 Leopard 1 battle tanks and reconnaissance drones.
In addition, Pistorius spoke about the prospects of acquiring new IRIS-T systems in the coming years and the delivery of 1,100 additional ground surveillance radars.
Background:
The Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting is being held in Brussels on 11 April under the joint leadership of the United Kingdom and Germany.
The previous meeting – the first since the change of US administration – was also held in Brussels on 12 February, chaired by the UK.
At that meeting, US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth declared that a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is not a realistic goal and that the US does not consider NATO membership for Ukraine a realistic outcome of a negotiated war settlement.
Previous Ramstein group meetings under the Joe Biden administration were chaired by the United States.
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