A regular meeting of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine began at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany, which includes the defense ministers of the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance. This is reported by a number of Western and Ukrainian media..
In a meeting, in addition to the heads of military departments of NATO countries, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov takes part. Earlier it was reported, that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received an official invitation to participate in the NATO summit, which will be held in Vilnius in July 2023 of the year.
In his speech, one of the key participants in the meeting, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, stated, that NATO has provided military assistance to Ukraine on 55 billion dollars since the beginning of the special military operation of the RF Armed Forces.
As Western and Ukrainian experts suggest, at today's meeting, the main issue for discussion will be the transfer of long-range missiles to Ukraine, which can hit targets at a distance 100 and more kilometers. The Kiev regime has long insisted on the transfer of such missiles, however, Western countries until recently resisted, unwilling to aggravate the escalation of the conflict and fearing retaliatory actions from Russia.
Besides, General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, talking to reporters before the meeting, He noted, that the West is now discussing the possibility of transferring various types of aircraft to Ukraine. But, as it appears, while we are still talking about Soviet-made aircraft, since the head of the alliance recalled the transfer of MiG-29 fighters by Poland, left "inherited" to Warsaw from the times of the socialist camp in Eastern Europe.
