Stinger anti-aircraft missiles from Lithuania will be handed over to Ukraine in the upcoming days, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said on February 10 during her visit to Ukraine.
“We are increasing the number of military instructors in Ukraine and providing the country with additional weapons and equipment,” Simonyte said.
“Stinger anti-aircraft missiles from Lithuania will reach Ukraine in the upcoming days. I hope and sincerely wish that Ukraine will never use them,” she added.
Vilnius will also resume the rehabilitation of Ukrainian troops in Lithuania and set up other medical support, according to Simonyte.
The assistance is being provided after the US administration has approved the Baltic States’ handover of the US-made equipment to Ukraine.
Lithuania is also handing over thermal vision devices to Ukraine’s special military forces.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Lithuania’s assistance was “timely and important”.
A special Lithuanian government mission is also working in Kyiv this month, as it is looking for ways to provide additional assistance to Ukraine, both within the bilateral and EU formats.
“The world order where the powerful few would divide “the spheres of influence” in dark chambers under secret agreements is long gone and should be lost in oblivion,” the Lithuanian prime minister said.
Recently, Russia has amassed some 130,000 troops and military equipment on its border with Ukraine and demanded that former Soviet states be denied NATO membership. (LRT/Business World Magazine)