After a short suspension, the American supply restarts: ammunition and rockets for Ukraine. Meloni: “Coordinated pressure for peace is needed”
Washington started to send armaments to Ukraine: the turning point came a week after the United States had suspended the supply of some missiles in Kiev. In particular, two American officials have made it known toAssociated Press That “direct weapons in Ukraine include 155 mm ammunition and precision rockets known as GMLrs”. In the last few days, Donald Trump had expressed irritation against Vladimir Putin’s conduct on the Ukrainian dossier. “Putin is not dealing with humans well,” he said on Wednesday, and then add: “He is killing too many people. So we are sending defensive weapons to Ukraine, and I gave my approval”. Not only that. Trump also opened to the possibility of supporting a bill which, introduced to the Senate, would impose 500% duties to those countries which, like India, acquire energy products from Russia. All this, although, a few hours ago, the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, met the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergej Lavrov, speaking of Ukrainian crisis and Middle East. Following the face to face, Rubio expressed “frustration” for the diplomatic stalemate, but he also added that Lavrov would have communicated an unspecified “new idea” on Ukraine. However, the American Secretary of State has urged European countries to provide Patriot defense systems in Kiev.
On the other hand, Moscow has launched, in the past few hours, a massive air attack against Kiev. “This is an evident increase in terror by Russia,” said Volodymyr Zelensky, who is in Rome for the conference for the resumption of Ukraine. “New defense systems are needed, encourage all our partners to increase funds, increase investments. Because given what Russia does, we cannot help but produce drones,” said Ukrainian President on the occasion. During the Roman summit, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, also spoke on the topic. “Ukraine has avant -garde weapon systems and able to guarantee rapid and low -cost deliveries. This is exactly what we need in the EU. However, the Ukrainian defense industry operates only 60% of its ability. Now our Member States can resort to Safe loans and buy directly from the Ukrainian defense industry: for EU countries they are high quality, rapid and economic products while for Ukraine. Fundamental revenues, but also of an opportunity to strengthen its industrial base in the defense sector, “he said.
On the sidelines of the summit, there was also a video meeting of the coalition of the willing: meeting at which – in addition to Giorgia Meloni, Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Zelensky himself – he took part, for the first time, the American correspondent for Ukrainian, Keith Kellogg. “I am very satisfied that for the first time, precisely from Rome, the United States will also participate in the meeting of the willing with the special correspondent for the Ukraine of President Trump, General Kellogg: I think it is a clear signal and a clear example of the unit with which we continue to work for the safety of Ukraine,” said Meloni. During the meeting, Zelensky said that Moscow “is blocking all the attempts of an agreement for the ceasefire”. “I am sure that in the future we will strengthen the coalition of the willing, and this is important,” he added, thanking Kellogg for their participation. “With massive and continuous bombings on civilians, Russia shows no desire to make progress. For this reason, in parallel to the necessary support for Ukraine, I agree that we must also increase the pressure on Moscow to reach a ceased the fire and open the way to diplomacy as soon as possible,” he said, for his part, Meloni during the conference. “We have to concentrate our efforts on the preparation for peace, forcing Putin to sit at the negotiation table. This coordinated pressure will make the difference,” added Starmer.
