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Minister of Defense of Ukraine Named Some Results of Ramstein Meetings

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Illustrative photo / Ramstein-5 meeting
Illustrative photo / Ramstein-5 meeting

Oleksiy Reznikov, Minister of Defense of Ukraine, summarized results of Ramstein meetings in its Facebook

According to his post, "In the context of long-term support, the task of training Ukrainian soldiers has been raised to a qualitatively higher level on Ramstein-5 meeting. The range of our needs is wide: from acquiring individual skills to training as part of battalions, as well as training brigade headquarters. An effective training program initiated by Great Britain and supported by Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and New Zealand is already in place.

At Ramstein-5, I asked partners to consider the possibility of deploying similar training programs in other neighbouring countries. This will ensure the scaling of the training process, and we will get more trained troops in a short period of time."

Read more: ​Ukraine Seeking to Create a Three-Tier Air Defense and Boost Military Industry – Defense Minister Reznikov on "Ramstein-5" Results

Besides, Oleksiy Reznikov summarized the results of all Ramstein meetings: "It so happened that at each “Ramstein” there are certain key words that determine the focus of the discussion. At our first meeting in April, those words were “timing” and “transition”. Back then, we were convincing the partners to equip our army with heavy Western machinery as soon as possible and start the transition to Western weaponry in general.

We have gone a long way since then.

Ukraine has received hundreds of 105-m and 155-mm artillery units and ammo for them. Only for 155-mm ammo we have 7 types of guns and self-propelled artillery. Ukrainian soldiers are bringing terror upon the enemy with accurate and indivertible strikes of M142 Himars, M270 MLRS and MARS II. HARM missiles are already leaving the enemy without radars.

M142 Himars MLRS
M142 Himars MLRS

Harpoon missiles have joined forces with our “Neptunes”. The Ukrainian Navy under the command of Vice Admiral Oleksiy Neizhpapa have shown what this tandem is capable of.

Shifts have begun in the area of air defence/anti-missile defence. We have already received the Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled artillery units from Germany. Our specialists are completing their training on modern German Iris-T anti-aircraft systems that will soon make our skies safer. A policy decision was made regarding the NASAMS systems. And this is not to mention the armored vehicles and a substantial amount of other help. All this happened in just 4.5 months".

National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS)
National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS)
Read more: ​Next Offline Ramstein Meeting on Ukraine Military Support Scheduled
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