With Friedrich Merz as the new Chancellor of Germany, Ukraine could get its hands on Taurus KEPD-350 after all. This is an outlook on a possible delivery to Ukraine.
As the German drone manufacturer Quantum Systems announced in a press release today, they will double the production capacity of their Kyiv-based production facility over the course of this year.
In the event of an election victory, Chancellor Scholz would like to provide up to €10 billion in military assistance for Ukraine this year. This is what he said in a SPIEGEL interview on the 12th of February.
Shortly before the upcoming elections in Germany on the 23rd of February, there is hardly any hope left that an additional €3 billion Ukraine assistance will be approved.
The transfer of Ukrainian Air Force personnel to the infantry is entering the next round. According to Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko IRIS-T SLM technicians are also affected.
Germany's Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius today refuted reports that three additional IRIS-T SLM fire units are to be procured with the €3 billion currently under discussion.
The German government has financed 20 mobile clinics, which are tasked with improving access to basic medical care in various communities in six Ukrainian oblasts.
Germany will again take over the protection of Polish airspace. Two MIM-104 Patriot fire units and 200 soldiers will be deployed for an estimated six months to protect the key logistics hub in Poland.