At a meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine on Friday, Latvian Defense Minister Inara Murniece announced a decision to transfer to Kiev all the Stinger man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems that the Latvian side has.
It is reported by “European truth“.
“Latvia has responded to Ukraine’s request for the supply of air defense systems and has decided to transfer to Ukraine all the Stinger air defense systems that we still have. We will do our best to deliver them to Ukraine as quickly as possible,” Murniece announced.
In addition, Latvia continues to implement the training program for Ukrainian military personnel.
“Our goal was to double the number of Ukrainian soldiers trained in Latvia this year compared to 2022. Now we see that we will be able to train even more military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at different levels. I am sure that by the end of the year Latvia will have trained almost three thousands of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the head of the department said.
At the same time, the Minister of Defense of Latvia noted that Riga, together with other allies, is working on a new initiative to train soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Latvia.
The last time about sending Ukraine MANPADS Stinger Latvia announced in January of this year.
The Stinger is one of the most highly developed and effective air defense systems and is also used by many of Latvia’s allies, such as the US, UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway and Lithuania.
Military assistance to Ukraine from Latvia has already reached 1% of its GDP and exceeded 300 million euros.
2023-04-21 18:38:00
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