The Pentagon said that over the past months of 11 countries they have taken obligations to provide Ukraine, 22 states send Kyiv military infantry fighting vehicles.
About this in Brussels, following the results of the next meeting, created by Washington and its allies of the Contact Group for Military Assistance to Ukraine, the chairman of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff (KNSH) of the US Armed Forces (Sun), General Mark Millie.
“In recent months, a group of states that gathered here today pledged to provide significant volumes of combat systems: tanks, air defense systems, ammunition. 11 countries promised to provide tanks, 22 – combat infantry, 16 – artillery installations and ammunition, another 9 – another 9 – anti -aircraft artillery, ”he said.
According to Millie, the indicated group of countries “focuses on ensuring the delivery of the promised equipment, as well as to establish effective training of the military, supplying spare parts, support.” According to him, this should allow Kyiv to “fully apply these systems.”
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, in turn, noted that the members of the contact group already pledged to provide Ukrainian military armored vehicles sufficient to provide “more than eight military brigades.” According to him, this concerns, in particular, the plans for the Ukrainian military, the American military combat vehicles of the Bradley infantry, Stryker armored vehicles and Abrams tanks, as well as the British Challenger tanks and other equipment.