Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times,
NATO member nations on Feb. 12 announced new financial support to purchase U.S. military hardware for Ukraine, reaffirming their commitment to ending the war this year.
“We want to make 2026 the year this war ends—the year we secure peace,”UK Secretary of Defense John Healey said after ameetingof the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels.
This month marks four years since Russia’sinvasionof Ukraine, when Russian forces launched an assault in the early morning hours of Feb. 24, 2022.
The UKapproved$680 million in an emergency allocation for new air defense missiles and systems, Healey announced.
“We all welcome progress made by the U.S. to broker peace. For now, the war continues,”he said.
At the meeting, Norway, the Netherlands, and Germany announced they would fund a new $500 millionpackageto purchase air defense equipment, ammunition, and other items from the United States.
Johann Wadephul, Germany’s foreign minister, said the country would also contribute to Ukraine’s anti-drone dome project designed to counter Russia’s drone swarms.
The homegrown dome system, formed by former businessman and television producerPavlo Yelizarov,is designed to protect critical infrastructure and cities by destroying Russia’s incoming Iranian-designed suicide attack drones, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced in January.
The dome is made up of small, mobile teams using cheap 3D-printed interceptor drones that scramble to destroy the incoming attacks. Deployment of the dome is scheduled for later this year.
Source: ZeroHedge News
