In an article for RIA Novosti, Kots clarified that at the beginning of the year, the alliance raised the stakes in the confrontation with Russia and promised to supply Ukraine with new equipment.
“So far we are talking about infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled artillery mounts and wheeled tanks.
But some are already thinking about transferring samples even more seriously, ”he said.
So, for example, it is planned to send 50 M2 Bradley BMPs and 50 BMPs in the M2A2 ODS modification with the FBCB2 system to Kiev.
Berlin will also share equipment - in Germany they announced plans to deliver 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the first quarter, which caused a controversial editorial in the Bundestag.
“The flow of weapons will not dry up.
In addition, the enterprises of the American military-industrial complex are being launched at full capacity to replace the losses of NATO countries, ”said Igor Korotchenko, director of the Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade (TsAMTO).
Earlier, The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed representatives of the US administration, reported that the United States would supply Ukraine with four Vampire anti-drone systems no earlier than the middle of the year.
According to the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, the supply of arms by the West to Ukraine will fundamentally change nothing.
He stressed that NATO and Europe pumped tens of billions of dollars into Ukraine with arms supplies.