Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and NATO chief Stoltenberg urge faster arms supplies
Al Jazeera
NATO chief says the alliance’s members have failed to live up to their military aid promises to Kyiv.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that vital US weapons have started to arrive in Ukraine in small amounts, but that deliveries need to be faster as Russian forces continue to advance on the battlefield.
Zelenskyy told a joint press conference in Kyiv alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday that the situation on the battlefield directly depended on the speed of ammunition supplies to Ukraine.
“Timely support for our army. Today I don’t see anything positive on this point yet. There are supplies, they have slightly begun, this process needs to be sped up,” he said.
Last week, the United States approved a $61bn aid package, ending six months of congressional deadlock and raising Kyiv’s hopes that its critically low stocks of artillery shells will soon be replenished as it fights off Russia’s two-year invasion.
Stoltenberg told Ukrainians that NATO members had failed to live up to their promises of military aid in recent months.
