Ukraine allies pledge 21 billion euros with new military support for Kev

European Ukraine allies pledged 21 billion euros (24 billion dollars; 18 billion pounds) in a new segment of military support to Kev, in what they described as a “critical year” of the war.

More than half this – 11 billion euros with the help of four years – comes from Germany. British Defense Secretary John Healy said the pledges would send a strong signal to Moscow.

This announcement came when members of the defense communication group in Ukraine met at the NATO headquarters in Brussels to pledge air defenses, missiles and other equipment as Europe sought to fill the gap left by the changing priorities of the United States during the era of Donald Trump.

The defense ministers in Europe said they had not seen any sign of the end of the war, despite Trump’s promise to a ceasefire.

The support announced on Friday also includes a package of 450 million pounds ($ 590 million) from the United Kingdom and Norway to finance radar systems, anti -tank mines, vehicle repair, and hundreds of thousands of drones for Ukraine. Money is part of a British pledge of 4.5 billion pounds earlier this year.

The air defense was a priority in Brussels. Healy said that Russian forces dropped 10,000 sliding bomb on Ukraine in the first three months of this year, in addition to the launch of 100 drones in one direction a day.

“In our calculations, I now caused 70 % to 80 % of the battlefield victims and caused by the drone,” the UK Minister of Defense said.

German aid package in the meantime is highly focused on artillery.

Boris Peporius said that Germany will send 100,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, 25 infantry fighting vehicles, 15 battle tanks, and 100 ground control radars and 120 men.

Berlin will also send four IRIS-T Air Defense systems with 300 missiles to KYIV.

“Ukraine needs a strong army and only then the negotiation process can lead to a just and lasting peace,” German Defense Minister told reporters in Brussels.

Defense ministers gathered from 50 countries in Brussels for the twenty -seventh gathering of UDCG.

The US Defense Secretary, Beit Higseth, joined the meeting away, and told the allies that America appreciates their work.

Pezorius said that Higseth’s decision was the issue of “schedules” instead of “priorities”, and that “the most important truth is that he participated.”

Other leaders also joined remotely, including Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinski.

Kiev Rosstum Omrov, who was in Brussels, thanked Europe for “taking over the initiative in his country’s security assistance”.

He also said that the presence of Higseth “means that the United States continues its security assistance as it is next to us.”

Haili, Penerius and Russia’s bouquets accused of withdrawing its feet of a ceasefire.

Healy said he had been more than a month since Russia refused to settle peace backed by the United States. Petsorius said Russia is still not interested in peace.

She held talks in Europe, where the US special envoy Steve Witkeov traveled to Russia again, to pressure the Kremlin to accept the armistice.

Wittakov Vladimir Putin met in Saint Petersburg on Friday Donald Trump also urged the Russian president to “move” in the ceasefire in Ukraine.

Earlier, Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that Putin and Woykov will discuss the Ukrainian war, but one should not expect any “breakthroughs”.

On the ground in Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Thursday that its forces had acquired the village of Chawarfka, in the northern Somai region of Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials have not confirmed this yet.

Earlier this week, President Zelinski said that up to 67,000 Russian soldiers were placed north of the Sumi border, in preparation for an attack on the city of Sumi.