To protect grain supplies: Germany will send additional air defense equipment to Ukraine
To help protect grain supplies from potential attacks by the Russian Federation, Germany plans to send additional air defense equipment to Ukraine.
It is noted that Germany will send one additional IRIS-T air defense system and more than 12 Gepard anti-aircraft guns. They must protect cargo bound for Romania along the country’s southern coast.
The weapon should arrive in Ukraine by the end of this year, and the IRIS-T system will be delivered after production.
German MP Markus Faber, who is a member of the defense committee of the lower house of parliament, confirmed that Ukraine will receive more IRIS-T systems and Gepard installations, as well as ammunition for them.
-Ukraine will use these systems, for example, to better protect its grain ports, – he said, without going into details.
It will be recalled that Ukraine is trying to increase grain supplies via the Danube River and overland through the so-called “solidarity routes” after the agreement that allows ships to pass from Black Sea ports through the Bosphorus Strait in Turkey stopped working.
A small number of vessels also ply the waters off the coast of Romania and Bulgaria, ignoring fears of Russian attacks.
