2 MARCH 2024
Finnish Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen calls on the West to increase military support for Ukraine and to find money for shells “immediately”.
Source: European Pravda with reference to Yle
Details: According to Häkkänen, Europe has not realised the seriousness of the war through the prism of history and has not provided Ukraine with sufficient support.
The EU aims to supply Ukraine with one million artillery shells this year. Earlier, Czechia reported that it had found 800,000 pieces of artillery ammunition in countries outside the EU. The country has asked other EU and NATO countries to help finance the procurement. The estimated value of the ammunition is about €1.3 billion. No decision on funding has been made yet.
Quote from Häkkänen: “Funds to support armaments in Ukraine must be found immediately.”
More details: The defence minister of Finland also stressed the importance of increasing domestic arms production in the EU. Some progress has already been made in this regard, Häkkänen said.
“European countries have managed to increase their own production, and they are close to achieving the goal,” he said.
Background:
- The Czech initiative to procure 800,000 shells for Ukraine outside the EU, which is financed jointly by a number of states, will be able to make first deliveries to Kyiv in a few weeks.
- The Czech Defence Ministry previously stated that it was coordinating the effort and had secured preliminary commitments from Canada and Denmark, as well as other countries that wished not to be named.
- The Netherlands publicly confirmed its participation by donating €250 million for the purchase of ammunition.
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It’s been about two weeks already since the Czech Republic has found those 800,000 rounds of artillery shells and still the money to purchase them has not yet been fully gathered, much less even one round being sent to Ukraine.
If NATO/EU/Europe should ever have to fight a war even half as intense as the one raging in Ukraine with the same type of gusto they’ve had in helping Ukraine, the continent would be lost. It’s a good thing that the biggest majority of Europeans are completely clueless about the complete incompetence and cowardice of their collective leaders, or else they would suffer sleepless nights.
Eurotrash, except for Scandinavians, Serbs and Ukrainians don’t have the bad ass mentality we southerners also have. They will never go all in, they are so afraid to lose that they will… lose.
That’s right, Mike. If you don’t even try, then you’ve lost from the get go.
We also lost, but we did not run away from the fight and we took out 100k more yankees than we lost of our own soldiers. 😎
“Germany engages in covert diplomacy to source artillery shells for Ukraine from India – Spiegel”
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/germany-engages-covert-diplomacy-source-163700078.html
Btw, I did write to Der Spiegel, criticizing this irresponsible leak of highly sensitive negotiations, which will only make it more difficult to reach a deal. All I got back was an automated reply, of course. 🙄
I hate those automated replies. It sucks not knowing if a person had seen your message or if it got lost in the system. Anyhow, that gesture was the right thing to do. Well done.