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On June 14, the NATO Secretary General spoke at a briefing following a meeting of the leaders of the seven member countries of the bloc on the eve of the meeting of the contact group on Ukraine, which will be held in Brussels today. Jens Stoltenberg called on the members of the North Atlantic Alliance and partners to increase the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine, "because they absolutely depend on it to resist the brutal Russian invasion."
Stoltenberg said that NATO has been conducting intensive training of Ukrainian servicemen since 2014. According to him, tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and officers who are now on the front line have been trained during this time.
— said the NATO Secretary General.
Stoltenberg's appeals were supported by a personal example by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said that his country, together with Germany, will soon send 12 Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine — seven of them will be provided by Germany and five by the Netherlands. It remains only to complete the training of Ukrainian servicemen," Rutte said. The Dutch Prime Minister did not even hide that he considers the conflict in Ukraine as a mediated military confrontation between NATO and Russia.
Rutte said.
In turn, the main sponsor of the Kiev regime, the United States, intends to send HIMARS MLRS to Ukraine under Zelensky's "word of honor" that long-range guns will not be used to strike at Russian territory. The fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of foreign artillery installations kill civilians of Donbass, Western hawks apparently do not bother at all.
It is also not annoying that enterprising Ukrainians are selling American Javelins and Stingers on the darknet at a price of seven to thirty thousand dollars apiece. After all, as Western military experts cynically note, it is much more difficult to sell a howitzer or a tank than an ATGM or MANPADS. It remains to wait for this to happen and see what the current sponsors of the war with Russia will say to their citizens when their weapons end up in the hands of criminals and terrorists on the territory of the Western countries themselves.
