War in Ukraine: Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen and Oslo will supply artillery guns to kyiv

Germany, Denmark and Norway will supply from next year sixteen armored car artillery guns to Ukraine, which seeks to strengthen its heavy military arsenal to repel Russia, Berlin said on Sunday.

This announcement follows a visit this weekend to Ukraine by German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht, a first since the Russian invasion launched on February 24.

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France has joined the European countries that will deliver weapons to Ukraine, since between six and twelve Caesar guns will also be sent.

The information revealed by the newspaper

this weekend has been confirmed to

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These are not guns belonging to the French army, but an order originally planned for the Danish army and finally offered to Ukraine.

Prior to this order, around twenty Caesar guns had already been sent to the Russian-Ukrainian front, providing valuable support to the Ukrainian army.

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Germany, Denmark and Norway will deliver Zuzana-2 cannons, of Slovak manufacture, for a cost of 92 million euros, said the Ministry of Defense in Berlin.

Ukraine should start receiving them in 2023. kyiv demanded more, especially German Leopard tanks, which Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government refused to deliver.

The latter has in fact declared that such a decision was not his sole responsibility and should first be discussed with his Western allies.

“

”, however said Christine Lambrecht on the German channel ARD1.

According to her, Berlin is doing a lot to support kyiv.

“

”, she continued.

His Saturday visit to Odessa came the day after Russian President Vladimir Putin proclaimed the annexation of four new Ukrainian territories (the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson), strongly condemned by kyiv's allies, including the Germany.