Since December, Ukraine has received more than 200 tanks, 300 infantry fighting vehicles and other weapons from the West, the total cost of all delivered is estimated at $30 billion, RBC reports with reference to Bloomberg.
Analysts write that further events in Ukraine will depend not only on how the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be equipped, but also on other factors. We are talking about training, the availability of intelligence and whether the Ukrainian side will be able to neutralize the Russian Air Force.
The Ukrainian command continues to call for more arms supplies, including air defenses and long-range missiles.
“No army ever feels that it is well equipped to do what is required of it. That is the nature of the military,” said retired US Marine Colonel Mark Kansian, who now advises the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Armed Forces of Ukraine need more time to launch a counteroffensive, as the military still needs more Western help, including armored vehicles, which “come in batches.”
In April, Zelensky announced that Poland would transfer 200 Rosomak armored personnel carriers to Ukraine: “Now a hundred and a hundred later.” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki explained that Kyiv will acquire one hundred Rosomaks from Warsaw with American and European funds. Prior to this, the Polish prime minister said that Warsaw would receive very good compensation from the EU for weapons supplied to Ukraine.
Poland billed the European Union for €2 billion for the supply of weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The country should receive €1 billion for joint purchases and financing of the defense industry and €1 billion for ammunition for Ukraine.
Source: Rosbalt
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