Arms to Ukraine for the whole of 2023. The Council of Ministers has approved the NATO decree to extend "until 31 December 2023" the sending of military vehicles, materials and equipment to Kiev to fight the Russian invasion.

This is an extension of the provision introduced after the start of the war by the Draghi government, which was due to expire at the end of 2022.

Full continuity therefore with the previous executive. And between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, the sixth aid decree for Ukraine will arrive on the table of the Meloni government : the need expressed by Kiev at this moment, with the arrival of winter and the intensification of bombing at strategic points, is that of making use of air defense missile systems to protect energy infrastructures from Russian attacks.

The new package, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto reiterated, will in any case pass through Parliament. Meanwhile, through Foreign Minister Lavrov, Moscow stigmatizes the training of Ukrainian soldiers by NATO, which would take place "in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and other countries" .

But Rome has denied: " No training in Italy in favor of the Ukrainian military, to date we have sent only four members of the Armed Forces to Germany as part of the European training group".

(Unioneonline/L)