About €11bn will cost the German government to transfer to Lithuania and place there on a permanent basis a brigade of the Bundeswehr (FRG Armed Forces). This was reported by Der Spiegel magazine.
According to Der Spiegel, employees of the planning department of the Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany estimated the transfer to Lithuania and the permanent deployment of the German brigade there at about €11 billion. €1 billion of the amount is intended for annual operating costs, €4 billion – for the purchase of large equipment, and €6 billion – for additional investments, for example, for the construction of infrastructure or the purchase of uniforms. However, it does not include the cost of salary supplements for service abroad, intended to attract some 4,800 military personnel and about 200 civilians to serve in Lithuania for many years, the magazine pointed out.
Der Spiegel noted that key issues of financing the project have not yet been resolved between the German government and the Lithuanian authorities. This involves covering costs, for example, for the construction of living quarters and training centres, as well as financing kindergartens and school programmes for children of military personnel.
We shall remind you that earlier, politicians from the Uckermark district assembly in the federal state of Brandenburg appealed to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Bundestag Speaker Berbel Bas to stop supplying arms to the Ukrainian government.
