NATO hints at extra heavy weapons for Ukraine
Kyiv can anticipate extra deliveries of heavy weapons from Western international locations quickly, NATO mentioned Sunday, as President Vladimir Putin praised his forces after their claimed seize of a Ukraine city.
Washington in the meantime condemned the missile on a tower block within the jap metropolis of Dnipro, because the loss of life toll rose to 30 as rescue groups saved up the seek for survivors.
NATO Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg mentioned Ukraine might anticipate extra heavy weapons following Kyiv’s requests to its allies for the automobiles, artillery and missiles it says are key to defending itself.
“The current pledges for heavy warfare gear are necessary — and I anticipate extra within the close to future,” Stoltenberg informed Germany’s Handelsblatt every day, forward of a gathering this week of a gaggle that coordinates arms provides to Kyiv.
Days after Russia claimed to have taken Soledar in jap Ukraine, a salt-mining outpost house to 10,000 earlier than the battle, Putin hailed it as a serious success.
“There’s a constructive dynamic, all the pieces is growing based on plans,” Putin mentioned, in an interview broadcast Sunday. “I hope that our fighters will please us greater than as soon as once more.”