প্রকাশ: 02/10/2022
Germany will deliver
the first of four advanced IRIS-T air defence systems to Ukraine in the coming
days to help ward off drone attacks, its defence minister Christine Lambrecht
said during an unannounced visit to Odessa on Saturday.
As air raid sirens sounded in the port city above, Lambrecht
held talks with her Ukrainian counterpart Oleksii Reznikov in an underground
bunker. Lambrecht had extended a visit to nearby Moldova for the meeting.
"In a few days, we will deliver the very modern IRIS-T
air defence system," she told ARD television. "It is very important
for drone defence in particular."
Ukraine has been seeing more attacks from Iranian-made
kamikaze drones in recent weeks, costing lives and causing serious damage to
infrastructure.
It first emerged in May that Berlin was considering sending
the IRIS-T surface-to-air defence system, which costs 150 million euros ($147
million) apiece.
The German armed forces themselves do not currently own the
system, reckoned among the world's most advanced.
Earlier, meeting her Moldovan counterpart Anatolie Nosatii
in Chisinau, she urged Western countries not to be deterred from arming Ukraine
by threats that Russia could use nuclear weapons.
"We have to be very careful," she said. "But
we mustn't let ourselves be paralysed."
Germany is facing calls to step up its support for Ukraine,
including by sending offensive weapons such as the modern tanks Kyiv says it
needs to take the fight to Russian forces.
Berlin has so far resisted such calls, arguing that such
moves would escalate the situation and pointing out that no other country has
so far sent tanks more modern than old Soviet stock sent by former Warsaw Pact
countries.
- Reuters
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