The central topic of the next meeting of the contact group on the defense of Ukraine at the Ramstein airbase in Germany, which will be held today, April 21, will be the strengthening of Ukrainian air defense. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said this on the Maybrit Ilner talk show on the ZDF channel..

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He also suggested that the Ukrainians at the Ramstein base will obviously once again raise the issue of deliveries of Western fighters, but noted that Germany does not play a big role here, given the types of aircraft that the FRG is armed with..

Also, according to Pistorius, the allies will talk about how to finance, how to establish repair hubs for the equipment that we transferred, in particular the Leopard tanks, the Marder infantry fighting vehicle.

In particular, he noted, work is now underway to repair the German Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled guns in Slovakia after difficult negotiations.. Leopard tanks to be repaired in Poland. And Romania wants to organize a Marder repair hub on its territory.

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Recall, according to information from the official website of the Ministry of Defense of Poland, the next meeting of the tank coalition will be held within the framework of the current meeting in the Ramstein format.