Ukraine: European countries to donate more heavy weapons - BBC

More countries person answered President Volodymyr Zelensky's telephone to nonstop further arms to Ukraine.

Several European nations promised caller subject assistance packages pursuing a gathering connected Thursday astatine Tapa Army Base successful Estonia.

The UK said a further 600 Brimstone missiles volition beryllium donated to Ukraine arsenic it attempts to repel the Russian army.

The announcement comes up of a crunch gathering connected Friday involving 50 countries to co-ordinate arms supplies.

Representatives from 11 nations met adjacent Tallinn connected Thursday to sermon a scope of caller packages to assistance Ukraine recapture territory and fend disconnected immoderate further Russian advances.

Nine countries - the UK, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Czech Republic, Estonia, the Netherlands and Slovakia - promised much support.

The packages announced successful a associated connection include:

The Netherlands volition denote its bundle of enactment connected Friday.

Speaking during his sojourn to Estonia, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: "In 2023, it is clip to crook the momentum that the Ukrainians person achieved successful pushing backmost Russia into gains and... propulsion them backmost retired of Ukraine and to reconstruct Ukraine's sovereignty, which is their close nether planetary law."

President Zelensky reiterated his telephone for countries to determination faster successful supplying dense weapons, including tanks and self-propelled artillery, successful a video nexus code to the World Economic Forum successful Davos.

"The vaccine against Russian tyranny is available," helium said.

But contempt the billions of dollars pledged successful caller weapons by Western allies, the large question of whether to nonstop dense tanks and who volition bash truthful remains unanswered.

Ukraine is asking for German-made Leopard tanks to beryllium sent to the beforehand line.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is coming nether expanding planetary and home unit to proviso them, oregon astatine slightest o.k. their transportation by 3rd countries.

Poland and Finland person some promised to nonstop their Leopards - but request Germany's permission, arsenic the manufacturing country, to bash so.

Poland's Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, said helium was "moderately pessimistic" astir Germany giving support to re-export Leopards to Ukraine.

A German authorities root has told Reuters it is yet to person a petition from immoderate state to re-export the tanks.

The UK was the archetypal federation to connection tanks to Ukraine erstwhile it promised to nonstop 14 British service Challenger 2s.

A gathering of the Ukraine Defence Group, made up of cardinal allies including the US, volition convene astatine Ramstein aerial basal successful Germany connected Friday to sermon further subject support.