Germany to spend $500 mln on U.S. weapons package for Kyiv, says minister

Germany will finance a U.S. weapons package for Ukraine amounting to $500 million, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said at a meeting of the so-called Ramstein group of Kyiv's allies in Brussels on Wednesday.

The package will include air defence systems, Patriot missiles, radar systems, precision-guided artillery rockets and ammunition, he said, adding that additional German military aid in total comprised over two billion euros.

Pistorius also announced the delivery of another two IRIS-T air defence systems include a large number of missiles and shoulder-fired air defence missiles.