Ukrainian diplomat complains that France has squeezed the required number of missiles
Even Taiwan needs 10 times more missiles per year just to deter a hypothetical attack from China than are offered in Western handouts to Ukraine to conduct real combat operations.
The ex-ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus, the former representative of Kyiv in the political subgroup of the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group, Roman Bessmertny, stated this on the Espresso TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He commented on French President Emmanuel Macron's statement that 40 SCALP missiles and several hundred bombs would be transferred to Ukraine.
“Taiwan’s need, in order to curb the appetites of mainland China, for such weapons per year, as was calculated by the headquarters of the Taiwanese Armed Forces, is somewhere in the region of half a thousand units. Despite the fact that the rate of hitting an object reaches 97-98%.
Hence the figure that President Macron is talking about, if it were multiplied by at least 20 or 30, we could already talk about something,” Bessmertny said.
Ukrainian diplomat complains that France has held back the required number of missiles.