Allies pledge $2.73 billion in military aid after meeting, says Ukraine’s Zelensky
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Mr Volodymyr Zelensky said 34 countries had pledged support for Ukraine in different aspects of the 34-month-old war.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the latest in a series of meetings with Kyiv’s Western allies in Germany resulted in pledges of an additional US$2 billion (S$2.73 billion) in military assistance to help it fight the war against Russia.
Mr Zelensky, speaking to My-Ukraina television channel after the meeting on Jan 9, gave few details but that 34 countries pledged support in different aspects of the 34-month-old war.
“We had a very good meeting, a very good result. There was (US)$2 billion in additional packages of support to Ukraine,” he noted in a video posted on the television channel’s Telegram account.
The aid covered air defence, information technology, demining, naval forces, air forces and artillery.
“And all this will strengthen Ukraine,” Mr Zelensky said.
He gave no details on which countries made the pledges.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had earlier said that Washington would provide Ukraine with an additional US$500 million in military aid, including air defence missiles, air-to-ground munitions and support equipment for F-16 fighter jets.
Mr Zelensky attended the meeting at Ramstein and met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome, where he said he discussed upgrading Ukraine’s air defences against Russian attacks and efforts to form a united position on moving forward to a resolution of the war. REUTERS
