NATO–member nations are delivering weapons to Ukraine, the defense minister of the embattled European nation said Sunday.
“We reached agreements in closed talks, without media, about … those weapons that we currently need,” said Defense Minister Valery Heletey, according to Reuters. Heletey said his country needed weapons “that could stop [Vladimir] Putin,” the Russian president.
“I have no right to disclose any specific country we reached that agreement with. But the fact is that those weapons are already on the way to us — that’s absolutely true, I can officially tell you,” Heletey told the news service.
“Heavy fighting” was going on near Donetsk Sunday, AFP reported, raising questions about the sustainability of a truce there now nine days old.
“Large clouds of thick black smoke billowed over the industrial city as the boom of sustained shelling and the rattle of automatic gunfire rang out throughout the day, AFP reporters witnessed,” the news service said.
NATO itself won’t send weaponry to Ukraine, but its member nations can, Reuters said.
Ukraine Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said this weekend that his country is “still in a stage of war” with Russia, the Guardian reported.
