Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz will co-chair the Foreign Affairs Council (Defense) alongside the EU’s new foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.
A closed-door working session will focus on sustaining weapons, ammunition and training pipelines for Kyiv as Russia’s assault enters its fourth year.
Kosiniak-Kamysz told Polish Radio ahead of the meeting that ministers would also “take stock of concrete steps to ramp up Europe’s defense-industrial production”, an issue Warsaw has pressed in recent weeks.
On Friday, the minister raised the topic in Rome at an “E5” gathering of Poland, Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom – the five largest contributors of military aid to Ukraine.
EU diplomats say ministers will review progress on a €5 billion top-up to the bloc’s Ukraine Assistance Fund and discuss joint procurement schemes aimed at guaranteeing long-term orders for European manufacturers of artillery shells, air-defense missiles and drones.
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Source: IAR