{"id":9152,"date":"2026-09-05T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/9152\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:52:09","slug":"countering-russian-terror-and-defence-funding-ukraine-and-germany-discussed-security-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/9152\/","title":{"rendered":"Countering russian terror and defence funding: Ukraine and Germany discussed security cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Defence of Ukraine Evgeniy Khmara held a phone call with German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial terror by russia<\/p>\n<p>Evgeniy Khmara briefed his counterpart on russia\u2019s intensified aerial terror.<\/p>\n<p>The key threats at present are jet-powered drones and ballistic missiles.Evgeniy KhmaraMinister of Defence of Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>According to Evgeniy Khmara, Ukraine is developing its own defence plan and is already taking asymmetric actions that are delivering results.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, strengthening protection against russian strikes as quickly as possible remains a priority.<\/p>\n<p>Funding Ukraine\u2019s defence<\/p>\n<p>The parties also discussed funding for defence needs.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Defence is conducting an audit of resources and human capital across the Defence Forces. However, partners\u2019 financial support remains critical to Ukraine\u2019s resilience.<\/p>\n<p>The parties also focused on preparations for next week\u2019s meeting in the Ramstein format.<\/p>\n<p>Defence industry cooperation<\/p>\n<p>Another priority is developing a joint defence industry.<\/p>\n<p>The focus is on increasing the production of Ukrainian solutions and closer cooperation between the Ukrainian and German defence industries.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Defence thanked Germany for its exceptionally important support and leadership in working with other partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister of Defence of Ukraine Evgeniy Khmara held a phone call with German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius. Aerial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-9152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-defence-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}