Howitzers, not tanks, are currently the most necessary

for

the Armed Forces of Ukraine .

Also, the army needs heavy weapons to resist the invaders at the front.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba told about this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.

"The army has its own specific needs. Relatively speaking, if I were offered a hundred tanks or a hundred howitzers now, I would not hesitate to say a hundred howitzers now, and tanks are possible tomorrow. Because I know the real need of the front and understand that it is now much more critical." , - emphasized the diplomat.

According to the minister, there is a so-called symbolic weapon.

Unfortunately, it usually does not meet the real needs of the front.

That is why, Kuleba stressed, during discussions with Western partners, Ukraine talks about specific requests of fighters and commanders.

"At each Stavka under the chairmanship of the president, we look at it from this angle: what is needed here and now, what will be needed tomorrow in order to defeat the enemy," explained the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

It will be recalled that Politico published an article in which it is written that Volodymyr Zelenskyi, during his visit to the USA, asked his American colleague Joe Biden to provide Ukraine with modern tanks and planes.

But

Washington's position on this issue has not changed

.

At the same time, the head of the White House agreed to start supplying Patriot air defense systems. 

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