France is sending several Artillery Weapons to Ukraine, as a growing number of Western Nations contribute Heavier Arms to Kyiv following the Russian Invasion.
“We are delivering significant equipment, from Milan [anti-tank missiles] to Caesar [howitzers],” President Emmanuel Macron said. “I think we have to continue on this route. Always with the red line that we will not become parties to the conflict.”
Defence Minister Florence Parly, confirmed on Twitter that France would send “several Caesar artillery cannons and thousands of shells”.
Built by partly State-owned Arms Maker Nexter, the Caesar is a 155mm Howitzer mounted on a six-wheeled Truck chassis, capable of firing Shells at ranges of more than 40km (25 miles).
Ukrainian Officials including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, have repeatedly implored European and NATO Powers to provide Heavier Weapons, especially Artillery, as Russia launches a New Assault in the East.
Zelenskyy has also urged the West to impose tougher Sanctions on Russia, and accused the Russian Army of committing many Atrocities, including in the Port City of Mariupol.
The move came a day after U.S. President Biden announced a New package of $800m in Military Aid for Ukraine, saying it would help Kyiv’s Forces in the Fight against Russian Forces in the Rastern Donbas region. “This package includes heavy artillery weapons, dozens of howitzers, and 144,000 rounds of ammunition to go with those howitzers. It also includes more tactical drones,” Biden said on Thursday.
Germany would Replace Soviet-made Weapons sent to Ukraine from Eastern NATO and EU allies, including Slovenia, with New German-made ones.
“This is a debate that goes to the heart of Germany’s political life. It’s a sovereign choice that belongs to Germany and we respect it,” Macron was quoted as saying, adding he recently spoke to Chancellor Olaf Scholz, that France was sending ‘significant equipment’ to Ukraine to fight Russia.
“We have the same strategy as the France sending ‘significant equipment’ to Ukraine to fight Russia, which is to say that we will aid the Ukrainians as much as possible, but must be careful never to become parties to the conflict”., Scholz said.
Scholz on Friday, hit back against Accusations his centre-left Social Democrats have been too Lenient towards Russia, as Critics accuse Berlin of dragging its feet on Deliveries of Heavy Weapons to Ukraine. Opponents have confronted his Social Democratic Party (SPD) with a “distorted and slanderous depiction” of its Russia Policy, Scholz said in an interview with German weekly Spiegel. “That annoys me,” he said, adding the SPD was “bound into the Western and transatlantic alliance”.
But Germany has said after Decades of chronic underinvestment, the German Army, called the Bundeswehr, is simply Not in a position to send the Weapons Ukraine wants. The potential to send Arms to Ukraine from the Stocks of the Bundeswehr had been “largely exhausted”, Scholz said in the Interview. “What is still available will absolutely still be delivered,” Scholz said, naming Anti-Tank Weapons and Artillery Munitions.
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