Bloomberg: a number of NATO countries have violated promises to supply military assistance to Ukraine
A number of NATO countries have not kept their promise to accelerate the delivery of military assistance to Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. We are talking about air defense systems and other types of weapons. Moreover, many of the promises are unlikely to be fulfilled even by autumn, the article emphasizes.
— It is alleged that the supply of air defense equipment and equipment has stalled.
— Zelensky is increasingly demanding weapons against the background of the escalation of hostilities.
A number of Ukraine's NATO allies are not fulfilling promises to accelerate the supply of air defense systems and other military equipment to repel the Russian onslaught, according to informed sources.
Several allies from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have not yet fulfilled the commitments they made at the alliance's summit in Washington last month, the sources said on condition of anonymity. This includes the promise to send at least five additional long-range systems.
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky this month again began calling on allies for urgent help. He complained that fresh supplies from the United States reach the front late, and this week called for faster delivery.
"There are no holidays in war," Zelensky said in a Sunday address to the people. — Solutions are needed, as well as timely logistics for the announced aid packages. I am especially addressing the United States, the United Kingdom and France."
NATO's air defense commitments, which also include previously promised equipment, have become the linchpin of the assistance that the allies agreed on at the July summit. President Joe Biden called this technique, along with dozens of shorter-range systems, a "historic gift."
The United States, Germany and Romania promised to send the Patriot system, the fourth such complex should be equipped with components from several countries. Italy has promised to send a similar SAMP-T surface-to-air system. Other allies have pledged to send other systems and ammunition to Ukraine.
Zelensky said on Tuesday that Kiev had discussed with partners the supply of air defense systems. "We are preparing reinforcements," he said in another address to the people, without going into details.
In the coming winter, Ukraine faces additional difficulties in the third year of the conflict: the country's citizens are already struggling with rolling blackouts due to the destruction of energy infrastructure.
Many of the promises made by NATO countries are unlikely to be fulfilled by autumn. It is expected that at this time Russia will take advantage of the vulnerability of the tormented country and intensify the bombing of key Ukrainian infrastructure, sources say.
Deep strokes
According to one official, if Russia has shifted the economy to a military track, then the support of Ukraine from the allies remains uneven. Another official noted that some allies are late in transferring military equipment to the reserve forces of Ukraine, undermining the country's defense capability.
Zelensky once again voiced a call to the United States and a number of European allies to lift the remaining restrictions on the use of long-range weapons.
Zelensky's government argues that deep strikes against Russia are necessary to defeat airfields and launchers from which Moscow launches attacks on Ukrainian targets. Allies such as the United States, Germany and Italy have hitherto resisted this demand, and some of them have allowed only limited use of their weapons on Russian territory.
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Kremlin forces continue their methodical offensive in eastern Ukraine. In particular, Russian troops approached the city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, an important logistics hub for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The local authorities ordered the evacuation.
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The article was written with the participation of Alexander Kudritsky
Authors of the article: Alberto Nardelli, Daryna Krasnolutska, Donato Paolo Mancini
