War in Ukraine: German Chancellor Olaf Solz goes to Kiev

THE German chancellor Olaf Solts is on the way to Kyivas broadcast by the second channel of the German public television ZDF, citing a “safe” img.

In Kyiv, according to ZDF, Mr. Soltz, the president of France Emanuel Macron and the Prime Minister of Italy Mario Draghi will have a meeting later today Thursday with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

The President of Ukraine announced yesterday that it has been invited to the forthcoming G7 and NATO summits.

Germany has three multi-missile launch systems in the Ukrainian army

Germany, meanwhile, will supply its army Of Ukraine with three self-propelled launch systems of multiple MARS II missiles, announced yesterday Wednesday (15/6) in Brussels the German Minister of Defense Christine Lambrecht.

Ms Lambrecht explained that the three systems were “the limit” of the kind of weapons Berlin could deploy in Kyiv without questioning missions by the Bundeswehr – the German armed forces – and NATO, in a statement to reporters after meeting of the so-called Contact Group for Defense of Ukraine, which handles arms deliveries.

Sources close to the German government spoke a few days ago about the possible delivery of four such systems, the German modernized and adapted to European standards version of the American design MLRS M270.

Defense Minister Lambrecht also clarified that Berlin will send missiles, spare parts, while training Ukrainian operators of these artillery weapons. He added that the United States and Britain would send four and three more systems, respectively.

Mikhail Pontolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said earlier this week that Ukraine would need, among other things, 300 multi-missile launchers to have balance with Russia in terms of heavy weapons on the battlefields.