Germany to deliver two more IRIS-T air defence systems to Ukraine by year's end
www.pravda.com.ua
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:27:23 +0200
Ukraine will receive two IRIST short and mediumrange air defence systems from Germany by the end of 2024.
Source Major General Christian Freuding, Head of the Planning Staff and the Special Task Force for Ukraine at Germanys Federal Ministry of Defence, in a conversation with journalists in Kyiv, as reported by European Pravda Details Freuding stated that in recent days, Germany had supplied Ukraine with artillery howitzers, tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles and launched an attack drone programme.
The next IRIST SLM mediumrange and SLS shortrange systems should arrive in Ukraine in the coming days and weeks, before Christmas, the German major general announced.
But our support will continue after Christmas, and after 1 January, and after 21 January, and after 23 February, the date of the federal elections proposed in Germany, he vowed.
Background In early September, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Germany had ordered a total of 17 IRIST air defence systems for Ukraine.
These are eight mediumrange systems SLM and nine shortrange systems SLS.
By early October, Ukraine had received four IRIST SLM and three SLS systems.
Subsequently, the German Ministry of Defence announced the delivery of two more SLM and SLS systems.
Additionally, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in a conversation with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, promised that Berlin would ship another IRIST system by the end of the year.
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