Lithuania will soon send additional military assistance to Ukraine, Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas told his Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksii Reznikov, in Kyiv.
“Additional military assistance will arrive in Ukraine soon,” the Lithuanian Defence Ministry quoted Anusauskas as saying in a press release. “The country is getting plenty of M113 APCs, therefore, we could train the corresponding Ukrainian maintenance personnel or instructors.”
“We also propose to arrange training for demining personnel,” he said. “We are flexible and determined to help in every way we can, of course, responding to the needs voiced by Ukraine.”
According to Anusauskas, Lithuania is adding extra M113 armoured personnel carriers in addition to the 20 it has already delivered, as well as blank ammunition and explosives, and smoke grenades.
At their meeting, the two ministers also discussed possibilities for training Ukrainian military personnel in Lithuania.
“Minister Oleksii Reznikov and I have discussed military assistance and training for the Ukrainian military and everything else that improves Ukraine’s ability to stand up against the Russian aggression,” Anusauskas said.
Both ministers also attended a meeting of Presidents Gitanas Nauseda and Volodymyr Zelensky, in which they discussed directions for further cooperation.
Lithuania has so far provided Ukraine with military assistance worth around 123 million euros in total.
Its military assistance includes “Stinger air defence systems, anti-armour weapons, tactical vests and helmets, 120 mm mortars, small arms, ammunition, thermovisors, drones, anti-drones and surveillance radars, M113 APCs, trucks, all-terrain vehicles, and the Bayraktar TB2 UAV with ammunition crowdfunded for by the Lithuanian people”, according to the press release. (LRT/Business World Magazine)
