The head of the department, Ben Wallace, added that Western countries are ready to continue to provide assistance to Ukraine in the current volumes for several yearsLONDON, October 13.
/tass/. The depletion of stocks of weapons supplied to Ukraine does not threaten Western countries, arms companies have the opportunity to increase production. This was announced on Thursday by British Defense Minister Ben Wallace in an interview with Sky News.
"There is no such risk <...>," he said upon arrival at a meeting of the heads of defense departments of NATO member states in Brussels. "We have the ability to repair and manufacture weapons, maintain supply chains." Wallace added that Western countries are ready to continue to provide assistance to Ukraine in the current volumes for several years.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request from the leaders of the Donbass republics for help. After that, the United States, the EU, the United Kingdom, as well as a number of other states imposed large-scale sanctions against the Russian Federation and increased the supply of weapons to the Ukrainian authorities.
