Pakistan prepares fresh arms supplies for Ukraine
Pakistan has decided to dispatch a fresh arms consignment to Kiev coinciding with Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba's «emergency visit to Islamabad» this week amid depleting stockpiles slowing down the counteroffensive against Russia. ET has learnt that a merchant vessel has been berthed at the Karachi Port since last week to load nearly 200 containers of defence stores by Pakistan Ordnance Factories.
The consignment is expected to be delivered at Poland's Gdansk Port for the Ukrainian ministry of defence. The consignment consisting of rockets is expected to be delivered in the second week of August.
As Kiev runs short of ammunition amid its counteroffensive, Kuleba's trip will be the first big visit from Ukraine to Pakistan since the war and the issue of defence procurement is expected to figure high on the agenda, ET had reported last week. Kuleba will meet his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and is likely to call on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and military authorities (the most important institution of Pakistan).
Ukraine's arms and ammunition stockpiles are depleting fast despite supplies from the West. This has slowed down the «counter offensive».
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