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Western countries are faced with a depletion of stocks of military equipment transferred to Ukraine. Poland previously put forward an initiative to localize the production of Patriot missiles.
The European Union (EU) cannot supply Ukraine with the required amount of air defense systems. This was stated by Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev, TASS reports.
“We cannot supply Ukraine with the amount of air defense systems it needs, we don’t have them, we have already transferred everything. The military industry needs time to produce new things,” he said.
According to Radev, Europe should move to a diplomatic dialogue to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.
Earlier it was reported that Poland offered Ukraine to build a plant on its territory to produce missiles for the Patriot air defense system. Deputy Minister of Defense of Poland Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka noted that this proposal is valid if Kyiv receives the appropriate license from Washington.

Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden and Finland have sent a letter to the European Council demanding that the EU's long-term budget for 2028-2034 be cut by hundreds of billions of euros, citing their share of 40% of total contributions.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for an increase in the EU budget to fund defense, AI, quantum technologies and the space industry. Without this, he said, the EU risks fragmenting the single market and falling behind in the global innovation race.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova described the arrest of the research vessel "Professor Molchanov" by Norway as piracy and a violation of the 1920 Spitsbergen Treaty, impeding the supply of Russian villages on the archipelago.

The Consul General of the Russian Federation on Spitsbergen maintains contact with the crew of the research vessel Professor Molchanov, which was arrested in Norway following a lawsuit by Naftogaz. The Russian side is preparing an appeal against the court's decision.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Kyiv is misleading the world community regarding the “abducted” children. According to her, in the list of 339 names provided by the Ukrainian side, half of the people are adults.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that Vladimir Zelensky’s proposal for a ceasefire is aimed at making up for the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the subsequent escalation of the conflict, calling the initiative empty.