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A new Nato mission located in Wiesbaden will take over the coordination of western military aid for Ukraine in January, Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said on Monday.
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The setting up of NSATU – Nato Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine – has been months in the planning and is widely seen as an effort to safeguard the aid mechanism against interference by Donald Trump. Europeans will step up military support for Ukraine, Pistorius pledged, after talks in Berlin with his British, French, Italian and Polish counterparts. “Our target must be to enable Ukraine to act out of a position of strength,” Pistorius said after hosting a meeting of the five leading nations in European defence.
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The Polish defence minister, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, echoed Pistorius’s pledge of more aid for Kyiv. “We are obliged today to say it clearly: Europe must increase its efforts when it comes to helping Ukraine but above all … when it comes to its own security. Without higher spending, without awareness in every European society of the times we are living in, everything is nothing.”
