The three European leaders boarded a special train in Poland and are expected to arrive later this morning in Kyiv, Ukraine.
THE French President Emanuel MacronThe German Chancellor Olaf Solz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi boarded at special train and headed to Kyivbroadcast today Italian and German media.
The three European leaders boarded special train in Poland and are expected to arrive later this morning in Kyiv, Ukraine, according to the German network ZDF and the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, which published a photo of the three men inside the train.
Later today they will have a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The President of Ukraine announced yesterday that he has been invited to the forthcoming summits of the Group of Seven and NATO.
Germany has 3 MLRS in the Ukrainian army
Germany will supply the Ukrainian army with three self-propelled missile launchers MARS II, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht announced in Brussels on Wednesday.
Ms Lambrecht explained that the three systems were “the limit” of the kind of weapons Berlin could provide to Kyiv without questioning missions by the Bundeswehr – the German armed forces – and NATO, in a statement to reporters after meeting of the so-called Contact Group for Defense of Ukraine, which handles arms deliveries.
Sources close to the German government spoke a few days ago about the possible delivery of four such systems, the German modernized and adapted to European standards version of the American design MLRS M270.
Defense Minister Lambrecht also clarified that Berlin will send missiles, spare parts, while it will train Ukrainian operators of these artillery weapons. He added that the United States and Britain would send four and three more systems, respectively.
Mikhail Podoliak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said earlier this week that Ukraine would need, among other things, 300 multi-role rocket launchers to balance heavy weapons with Russia on the battlefield.
