Stoltenberg proposes NATO countries to allocate ˆ40bn annually for Ukraine - Reuters
Secretary General's proposal for annual aid to Kyiv to be discussed on 31 May
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will propose that NATO member states allocate at least €40 billion annually for military assistance to Ukraine.
Source. Reuters reports this, citing a NATO source, on the back of an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Prague. The key topic of the meeting was military support for Ukraine.
‘We need to maintain the current level of support, at least to provide the predictability that Ukraine needs for the time needed,’ the source said, adding that since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, NATO members have provided Ukraine with about €40 billion a year.
Reuters clarifies that Stoltenberg has not previously announced this amount, but NATO has discussed the creation of a special fund worth €100 billion over five years, or €20 billion annually, to support Ukraine.
It is expected that the Secretary General's proposal to allocate €40 billion to Kyiv annually will be discussed on 31 May.
Measures to strengthen the long-term strategy of support for Ukraine will be agreed at the NATO summit on 9-11 July in Washington.
Earlier, Stoltenberg called on the North Atlantic Alliance countries to allow Kyiv to use the weapons it has been provided with to attack military targets inside Russia.
Russia's offensive in Kharkiv region, which began in May, is partly due to the fact that Ukraine is not allowed to use weapons supplied by Western countries to attack ‘legitimate military targets on Russian territory, but it is time for allies to consider whether they should lift some of the restrictions they have imposed on the use of weapons they have provided to Ukraine,’ the NATO Secretary General said in an interview with The Economist published on 24 May.
Background. As it became known today, Germany, which is the second largest military aid provider after the United States, has officially allowed Ukraine to use its weapons in Russia.
It was also reported that the US presidential administration, following Joe Biden's instructions, tacitly allowed Ukraine to strike with US weapons on Russian territory, but ‘exclusively on the border with Kharkiv region’ in order to protect Kharkiv, which is under attack by Russian troops.
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