{"id":255399,"date":"2022-06-27T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255399"},"modified":"2022-06-29T07:21:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T07:21:03","slug":"zelenskiy-meets-g7-leaders-as-us-plans-to-give-air-defence-system-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255399","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskiy meets G7 leaders as US plans to give air defence system to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 June 27, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The West is getting more deeply involved for no obvious reason. Despite all the media hype about defending freedom, Ukraine is anything but democratic. President Zelensky has just banned the main opposition party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So by arming Ukraine the West is doing nothing to promote democracy. It is only going to prolong the war and ensure more Russian, and Ukrainian, casualties. Is that the real reason for the West\u2019s supplying arms to Ukraine?<\/p>\n

Still to be revealed is precisely what anti-aircraft system will be supplied to Ukraine and when? Such weapons are sophisticated and the Ukrainians will require extensive training to master them. Short of manning them with NATO troops now, they wont be ready for combat for months yet.<\/p>\n

Another unanswered question is what will be done to prevent Russia seizing the weapons? The Russians have already seized advanced howitzers gifted by the French<\/a> to Ukraine and they will undoubtedly try to do the same with any anti-aircraft systems provided by the West.<\/p>\n

This means that the West will be forced to supply their less advanced systems. Ed.<\/p>\n

Zelenskiy meets G7 leaders as US plans to give air defence system to Ukraine<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Patrick Wintour \u2013 The Guardian June 27, 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Ukrainian president has met G7 leaders via video as US government sources briefed that Washington plans to announce as soon as this week that it has bought a Norwegian advanced surface-to-air missile defence system for Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The announcement of the Nasams purchase will meet one of the key requests from Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has been warning his key cities are defenceless against Russian missile strikes including those that rained down on the capital, Kyiv<\/a>, on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Zelenskiy\u2019s meeting with the G7<\/a> leaders was not shown to the public \u2013 he could be seen on a television screen next to the round table where the leaders sat at the summit venue \u2013 but in his overnight address to the Ukrainian people he said the country needed a powerful, modern and fully effective air defence system that can ensure complete protection against such missiles. \u201cWe talk about this every day with our partners. There are already some agreements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The air defence system will be one of many pledges of military support including artillery ammunition due to be given to Ukraine either at the German-chaired G7 summit in Bavaria, or at the subsequent Nato defence summit in Madrid.<\/p>\n

Leaders of the G7 group of industrialised countries were meeting at Schloss Elmau deep in the peaceful Bavarian Alps, with Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine at the top of the agenda. The leaders are committing <\/a>to supporting Ukraine for the long haul at their summit, with help for Kyiv and further economic action against Russia under discussion.<\/p>\n

A US official said G7 leaders were set to pursue a price cap on Moscow\u2019s oil revenues and raise new tariffs on Russian goods.<\/p>\n

The US missile defence briefings did not clarify when Ukraine would receive the system, the degree of training required and to what extent it would receive the corresponding missiles. The US has to balance the need to show its commitment to the Ukrainian cause with a degree of military secrecy.<\/p>\n

The long-awaited American Himars missile system<\/a> is already on the Ukrainian frontline and being used to attack convoys of Russian equipment.<\/p>\n

In his overnight address delivered before his video link-up to the G7, Zelenskiy called for more ammunition. \u201cPartners should proceed more quickly if they are really our partners and not just observers \u2026 any restriction is in reality an invitation to Russia to strike again and again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On Saturday alone, Ukraine claims 62 Russian rockets and missiles hit the country, including from the territory of Belarus.<\/p>\n

Zelenskiy called on Belarus not to get drawn into the war. \u201cYou are not slaves and cannon fodder. You must not die,\u201d he said in his nightly message to the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n

The southern port of Odesa was struck overnight and, hours before the G7 summit opened, Kyiv was hit by the first strike on the capital since early June in what was taken as a brutal message of defiance.<\/p>\n

Boris Johnson<\/a> has been sending out ever fiercer warnings in advance of the summit discussion on Ukraine that Putin is poised to get away with the annexation of the country. The UK prime minister has refrained from criticising Germany in public, pointing to the extent of the German psychological journey from one of near pacifism to a preparedness to provide weaponry to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The weekend fall of Sievierodonetsk<\/a> after the city was reduced to rubble by airstrikes and artillery barrages appeared to make Johnson\u2019s point that Putin making faster military progress towards his key objectives than at any point in the war.<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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