This is 1 of the most crucial meetings – summarizing a phase of assistance for Ukraine. I presented the road map for our coalition to build armored capabilities," said Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish at the gathering of the global Contact Group on Defence of Ukraine.
Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz took part in a gathering of the Contact Group on Defence of Ukraine at the Air Base in German Ramstein. They were devoted to the equipment needs of Ukraine and to a summary of the activities of the group.
Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz spoke about Poland's very crucial function in this body as co-leader of the coalition of armoured capabilities. – This is 1 of the most crucial meetings, summarizing a phase of assistance for Ukraine. I just presented a road map for our coalition building armored capabilities for Ukraine and subsequent donations. All participating countries are preparing for further support for Ukraine," he said.
But questions arise on the horizon about the future of the Ramstein group, primarily related to the politics of the fresh United States administration after Donald Trump took over the presidency. “The key question is whether this format will continue,” said the Deputy Prime Minister. At the same time, he stressed that all participants wanted to proceed their cooperation. – With the participation and key function of the United States. I believe specified a gathering will take place after the change of administration. This format worked – he assessed.
The head of the MON informed that Poland is preparing another support package for Ukraine. What is possible, we always transmit. Of course, there is simply a limit which we do not exceed, i.e. the limit of the safety of the Polish state – Kosiniak-Kamysz pointed out.
Today's gathering at Ramstein was the last time the United States represented Lloyd Austin. The outgoing U.S. Secretary of defence announced another military aid package for Ukraine worth about $500 million. That's a good signal. The last fewer weeks have been a large transfer of support for Ukraine," commented Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish.
Kosiniak-Kamish asked about Donald Trump's words, who said that NATO states should spend 5 percent of their GDP on defence, declared that he was a proponent of this idea. "If authoritarian states – Russia, North Korea, Iran – spend much more than Western countries, we must make up for lost time in this race," said the Deputy Prime Minister.
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenski besides attended the contact group meeting, who called for the maintenance of the defence coalition. “We have come specified a long way that it would be crazy to quit and not make the defensive coalitions created by us,” said Ukrainian politicians. – No substance what happens in the world, everyone wants to be certain that his country will not just be erased from the map," he added.
The Ukrainian Defence Contact Group (UDCG, besides known as the Ramstein Group) is an alliance of over 50 states and organizations supporting Ukraine's defence by sending military equipment, its maintenance and staff training in consequence to the Russian invasion in 2022. Poland is 1 of the most active countries in both humanitarian aid and supplies of military equipment for Ukraine.
