Several member countries of the Commonwealth made an offer to Fund the trust funds for long-term assistance to Ukraine, which agreed the head of the NATO foreign Ministers at the end of June, said Commonwealth Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

" at a conference in Wales this week we will make decisions As to strengthen our cooperation with Ukraine. Among other initiatives, we create four trust Fund to Finance the actual suggestions in the following 4 areas: logistics, command and surveillance, cybersecurity, and help the soldiers, and among them the wounded, " said Rasmussen, answering the question of How NATO can now actually help Ukraine.

according to him, " at today's meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the ambassadorial level) Several allies did offer specific financial contributions to these trust funds."

"(We) were given to understand that more proposals have the opportunity to follow this week at a conference in Wales. The purpose of these funds is to Fund activities that will help Ukraine in reforming and modernizing the military power to become stronger for protection of Ukraine ", - said the Secretary General of NATO.

As before said Commissioner NATO, experts estimate the volume of these funds in the 12-13 million euros for two years. First Rasmussen said that NATO members at the conference in Wales will promise to help in strengthening and modernization of the Ukrainian military power and strengthen the program overall exercises with Ukraine. Here again, he said that NATO cannot provide Ukraine military equipment. According to his statement, not a question of NATO, because military equipment has not Alliance and its member countries.

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