NATO Country’s Top General Weighs In On Further Aid to Ukraine

Lithuania should not arm Ukraine with heavy weaponry at the expense of its own defense capabilities, according to the Baltic state’s top commander, Lieutenant General Valdemaras Rupsys.

“I need to have tools. We can’t perform the task without the capacities, but these capacities that we have, have now reached a point where we can't off-load anymore,” he told reporters on Wednesday.

Authorities in Vilnius are considering handing over self-propelled howitzers and NASAMS units after receiving a request from Kiev, and although Rupsys acknowledged Lithuania’s “obligations to NATO” he added he’d urge the government to find “other means of support”.

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