Kyiv told to increase domestic arms production as its officials say they have enough support to fight through 2025
The US is expected to cover $20bn of the loan with the first US tranche to be paid before Donald Trump takes office, but it is not clear if the president-elect could later legally pull out of the arrangement in anOfficials from the EU believe that, even in this situation, they could agree to make up most of the shortfall.
Ukraine is already planning to produce at least 30,000 long-range drones and 3,000 cruise missiles and drone missiles next year.meant that 80% of the mainly US-supplied 155mm guided artillery shells were being jammed, requiring Ukraine to revert to using cheaper and less precise munitions that could not be blocked.
“Do not create expectations that next month or maybe next year this war will somehow end,” he urged, describing such thinking as magical. “So what are we going to do in 2025? We are going to fight. We are capable and able to fight this war for the whole of 2025 so it is not a time to hesitate, but a time to increase support for Ukraine.
The EU and Ukraine are privately trying to convince the next Trump administration that the Ukrainian leadership should at least be given another year of support to see if it can push back Russia, or test whether sanctions start to inflict more serious damage on the Russian economy. Ukrainian officials met the US vice-president elect, JD Vance, in Washington this week.
Marchenko also admitted western-supplied tanks such as Abrahams and Leopards are less useful than artillery since they are too exposed to drone attack when deployed.
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