Overview

• UK Defence Secretary John Healey and German counterpart Boris Pistorius co-chaired a virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting calling for a 50-day arms push to pressure Putin toward negotiations
• Germany pledged €170 million to underwrite U.K.-led procurement of air defense ammunition, including Gepard anti-aircraft rounds
• The U.K. confirmed recent deliveries of £150 million in air defense missiles, artillery rounds and 50,000 drones supported by an additional 20,000 from a Britain-Latvia coalition
• European partners are finalizing plans to purchase U.S. weapons for Ukraine to relieve American taxpayers through backfilled allied stocks
• Ukraine endured a barrage of over 450 Russian drones and missiles, with about half intercepted as the strikes killed two civilians and wounded 15