The weapons deliveries - missiles, small arms, body armor and ammunition - are being made to NATO countries along the border with Ukraine, where they are loaded onto Ukrainian trucks and driven to various locations along the front lines. The decision to ship the supplies by road into Ukraine has emerged as a remarkable wartime improvisation, made necessary by the inability to fly aid into the country Russian jets and radar and air defense systems make flights almost impossible.
While European Command declined to describe its efforts to get weapons and military aid to the Ukrainian border, a Defense Department official in Washington told POLITICO that as allies make announcements “regarding their own contributions, we are committed to working closely with them to ensure that our assistance is coordinated and meets Ukraine’s highest priority needs.” The collaboration is aimed at making sure “we’ve got single channels that are easy for Ukrainians to engage with, as well as for our allies.” to provide “logistical nodes in different places that will be able to call forward flights and deliveries at the moment we’re able to get them across the border and into the hands” of the Ukrainians, he said. European Command is working with the U.K. has “essentially been providing a kind of a point of contact for to say ‘this is what we would like to get in there,’” Edward Ferguson, the British Embassy in Washington’s top defense adviser, told a small group of reporters in Washington. 25 donors summit run by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, where he garnered pledges by 25 nations to send weapons and other military aid, placing the British government at the forefront of the historic resupply effort. The impetus for the flurry of announcements over the past week was a hastily-convened Feb.
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