800 tanks and 30 thousand drones, donated by NATO to Ukraine

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Igor Kostyukov, head of the General Directorate of the Russian Joint Staff (in the position of the military intelligence service) wrote in an article that NATO has given about 800 tanks and more than 30 thousand drones to Ukraine. The title “The biggest source of military threat to Russia” published in the magazine “Military Idea” by the Ministry of Defense of Russia noted that NATO, in addition to tanks and drones, since February 2022 (the beginning of the war) more than 3.5 thousand armored vehicles, about 1.5 thousand Cannon has given the Ukrainian army about 270 rocket launchers, 130 airplanes and helicopters, more than 250 air defense systems and about 290 thousand anti-tank systems.

He added that NATO has spent more than 132 billion dollars for these aids. of which more than 63 billion dollars are from the United States of America.

Kostyukov emphasized that NATO pays special attention to providing long-range and high-precision weapons to Ukrainian forces to hit important military sites of the Russian army in In this context, he mentioned that Britain, France and the United States have provided Ukraine with Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles with a range of 650 km and ATACMS with a range of 300 km. /p>

The head of the General Directorate of the Russian Joint Staff added: “There is increasing pressure on Olaf Schulz, the chancellor of Germany, to approve the supply of Taros missiles, which have a range of up to 500 kilometers.”

He also wrote that NATO will soon provide F-16 fighters to the Ukrainian army.

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