"Ramstein-8": The Armed Forces tank crews can start the development of Leopard-2,-Reznikov

According to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, many participants of the meeting at the Air Base in Ramstay have announced their military assistance packages "At the closed doors". The participants of the meeting of the Defense Group of Ukraine at the Ramstein Air Base, which took place on January 20, gave permission to the countries with LEOPARD-2 tanks in service to start training courses for Ukrainian tank crews.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov told about it in a comment to the edition "League. " The Minister informed that at the Ramstein-8 summit there was an "optimistic breakthrough" in the position of allies of Ukraine on the provision of tanks. According to him, the participants of the meeting agreed to promote the counter -offensive operations of the Armed Forces on the release of Ukrainian territories.

"Of course, the decision of the German side is important, and we have got an understanding that there are no obstacles to the preparation of our crews for partner countries, the preparation of our military on" leopards "," said the head of the Ministry of Defense. Alexei Reznikov also noted that the data on military assistance to Ukraine were published on the eve of the meeting in Ramstay. At the same time, some countries preferred to declare their help packages "for closed doors".

"The only thing I can say is that it gives me additional arguments for optimism, because it is a strong strengthening of our armed forces, the security and defense sector," Reznikov said. According to Alexei Reznikov, the summit did not raise the issue of supply of aircraft to Ukraine. The minister also said that the next meeting in Ramstin is scheduled for mid -February.

It should be reminded that at the eighth meeting of the contact group on defense of Ukraine in Ramstin, no decision was made to transfer the LOOPARD 2 tanks of the Armed Forces. German Minister Boris Pistorius stated that there was no consensus among the Allies of Ukraine. Focus also wrote that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Ramstein 8 urged Western partners to accelerate the supply of weapons for the Armed Forces.