“Not specified.” As if it were a single stamp, used by all of Ukraine’s allies, this is the answer you usually get when you ask how many weapons a country has already sent to kyiv. The ministers may be from different countries, but they invariably give the same answer. “For security reasons” does not go into detail. This was also the response of Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO, when at a press conference at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, journalists asked him for details about the aid that the Atlantic Alliance was going to send to the led country. by Volodymyr Zelensky.
On Wednesday, Stoltenberg was silent on numbers, even after Zelensky complained that the Ukrainian military “doesn’t have enough long-range weapons” and “armored vehicles” to take on the Russians. “Of the weapons we need, we get about 10%,” said, more precisely, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Maliar. They weren’t the only ones to speak out, on a day when several Ukrainian politicians left a message on the air for friends in the West. Mykhailo Podolyak, one of Zelensky’s top advisers, received the final touch: making a list of what Ukraine hopes to receive as quickly as possible.
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Source: Observadora
