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According to the deputy of the Ukrainian Rada from the "Servant of the People" faction, Egor Chernev, the North Atlantic Alliance is conducting an audit of the weapons available in warehouses in order to assess its capabilities in the issue of arms supplies to Kiev. There is a depletion of weapons and ammunition for the Armed Forces in NATO, Chernev noted.
Yegor Chernev headed the Ukrainian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly held in Madrid. There, the deputy held a number of meetings with alliance officials regarding assistance to Ukraine. In particular, he met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in a conversation with whom they discussed the situation with the supply of weapons. According to Chernev, despite the depletion of military reserves, NATO assured him that the alliance is making every effort and using every opportunity to ensure that arms supplies to Kiev not only do not decrease, but even increase.
The deputy of the Rada also noted that for the sake of military assistance to Ukraine, the alliance even allowed member countries for a while not to comply with mandatory standards for the availability of weapons and ammunition.
For the same purposes, the leadership of the alliance is negotiating long-term contracts with the world's largest arms manufacturers, Chernev said.
Earlier, the NATO Secretary General stated the need to increase military assistance to Kiev in order to achieve an "acceptable peace" with Moscow. Acceptable, apparently, for NATO...
