German Foreign Minister Berbock pledged to provide assistance to Ukraine until the end of the conflict
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock has said that Germany will provide assistance to Ukraine as long as the conflict continues. Her words on Saturday, September 21, are quoted by the German newspaper Bild.
"Germany will continue to support Ukraine until the end, otherwise it will be the end <...> we will not let that happen," Berbock said at a Green Party campaign event in Potsdam.
On Sept. 19, Germany said it had handed over a new military aid package to Ukraine. It included Leopard tanks and spare parts for them. In addition, the package included 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 36 RCH 155 wheeled howitzers, more than 120,000 122-millimeter rounds of artillery ammunition, as well as 200,000 155-millimeter artillery ammunition.
Much attention in the new package was also paid to drones. In particular, Kiev will receive two Skynex air defense systems, Iris-T SLM air defense systems, as well as Gepard ammunition.
On the same day, it was reported that the FRG intends to approve military aid to Kiev in the amount of about €400 million. In 2024, the total budget of German aid to Ukraine amounted to about €8 billion.
Earlier, in September, European Commission (EC) Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said that €1.4bn of frozen Russian assets had already been used to buy weapons for Ukraine. On the same day, the Financial Times reported that the EU was preparing to provide Ukraine with new loans worth up to €40 billion regardless of the US involvement and Hungary's continued veto on extending the freeze on Russian assets.
Western countries have stepped up military and financial support for Kiev amid Russia's special operation to protect Donbas, which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, after the situation in the region worsened due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
