The Secretary General of NATO calls for the development of a stable weapon supply mechanism so that Ukraine can truly rely on it.
Stoltenberg reprimanded NATO countries for their inability to keep their promises / photo president.gov.ua
Disruptions in arms supplies undermined Ukraine’s trust in its Western partners. This was stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in a comment to the agency Reuters after a one-day visit to Kyiv.
As examples of the failure of NATO allies, he cited the more than six-month delay in approving a new program of American aid to Ukraine and Europe’s inability to supply 1 million artillery shells, which had already been promised.
Stoltenberg emphasized that these delays had a serious impact on the battlefield in Ukraine, and in the end Russia gained the upper hand and the Armed Forces were forced to go on the defensive.
“Of course, the fact that we have not fulfilled what we promised undermines trust,” Stoltenberg said, but added that Kyiv still believes in its allies.
According to Stoltenberg, such shortcomings show that it is time to review the coordination of international military aid to Kyiv.
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“We need a more robust, institutionalized basis for our support to ensure predictability, to ensure greater accountability and to ensure burden-sharing,” the secretary-general said.
Problems with Western aid to Ukraine: the latest news
As UNIAN wrote, the day before President Volodymyr Zelenskyi complained that Ukraine does not receive everything from the new package of weapons that the USA allocated last week. According to him, Russia will take advantage of this.
We also told that half of the money of the British aid fund to Ukraine was suspended due to bureaucracy. In two years, only 400 million out of 900 were spent, journalists calculated.
