NATO MILITARY COMMITTEE TO CONTINUE FUNDING UKRAINE – The US blames themselves for Ukraine’s shortage of troops because of delayed funding
More help on the way” to Ukraine, said NATO military committee chief, Rob Bauer, on Thursday (May 16) at a meeting in Brussels.
NATO’s Military Committee met on Thursday to discuss the implementation of defence plans, logistics, air and missile defence, defence industrial capacity and societal resilience while the situation in the Kharkiv region is deteriorating. There, Ukraine is trying to snuff out Russian assault, while holding the line against Moscow’s main thrust in the eastern Donbas region and guarding against potential new border incursions.
Ukraine’s shortage of troops is compounded by months of delayed weapons deliveries, in particular from the United States, after Congress took six months to approve a major aid package.
In his opening remarks, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, took a moment to express “solidarity” with Slovakia over the shooting of Prime Minister Robert Fico, and reminded that in democracies “violence is absolutely unacceptable.