Tue 23 August 2022:
On the eve of Ukraine’s independence day, On August 24, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Germany planned to provide more weaponry for USD 498.55 million.
Scholz made the statement while taking part in an online Ukraine conference in Toronto. Germany intended to provide three further Iris-T air defense systems, as well as a dozen armoured recovery vehicles, 20 rocket launchers, precise ammunition, and anti-drone equipment.
These weapons will be delivered in 2023, some of them possibly sooner. Source quoted by Reuters said that Germany’s parliamentary budget committee must still approve the supplies which Scholz described as a contribution to the modernization of Ukraine’s armed forces.
Ukraine is on high-alert as it approaches the independence day. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has already said that Russia might do something ‘ugly’ on Ukraine’s independence day. Yuriy Sak, advisor to Ukraine’s defence minister confirmed the high-alert status of Ukraine.
The celebrations will be muted this year and large gatherings have been banned in the capital Kyiv.
There is also mounting concern after Russia accused Ukrainian intelligence of being behind the assassination of the daughter of a prominent ultranationalist intellectual in Moscow on Saturday.
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