German MEP calls for pacing up arms supplies to Ukraine to help it win quicker

Michael Gahler, a German member of the European Parliament, has called on Western powers to increase military assistance to Ukraine to ensure that the nation wins its war with Russia as soon as possible.

Answering the question about the strengthening of Western military aid to Ukraine in order to prevent a long war, Gahler said that this is “exactly” the task that the West is facing, Guildhall reports.

“It’s exactly the point. Weapons, weapons, weapons. We must upgrade our weapons deliveries, we need to coordinate closely with Ukraine on the needs that there are on the ground. We had this Ramstein conference just last week, and I think what the NATO secretary general said, among other countries to Germany – and rightly so – it is worse if Ukraine loses the war than if we have empty storages of weapons. So support Ukraine to win and for the time being, we can accept empty storages of weapons in our Western armies,” Gahler told the reporter.

“But we should in parallel start producing and upgrading the weapons production. Where the weapons are needed now is in Ukraine. Everybody needs to understand that. And we, Europeans, who are closest, we need to do more and orient ourselves to the deliveries of the United States and Britain – they have delivered most. And of course our partners in Central and Eastern Europe have done a tremendous job but Germany, France, Italy, Spain – major western countries inside the EU – they need to do definitely more and also not argue about their own defensibility,” the MEP added.

If Western powers deliver weapons to Ukraine, and Ukraine uses them to reduce Russian military potential, this automatically reduces the threat Russia poses to Europe, the lawmaker believes.

“If Russians have less to threaten us, it’s good for us, and for that purpose, we should deliver our available weapons to Ukraine to shorten the war, to push the Russians to their own borders, and then to make a rethinking in Moscow possible,” Gahler said.

Recall that earlier the chair of the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, an expert on foreign policy with the Social Democratic Party Michael Roth said that Germany, in coordination with the EU and NATO, should supply main battle tanks to Ukraine.