Germany is gearing up to provide Ukraine with a new military aid package worth €1.1 billion.

"We are preparing a new aid package worth €1.1 billion. It includes 36 armoured howitzers and wheeled howitzers from industrial stocks, 120,000 rounds of ammunition, two Skynex air defence systems and missiles for IRIS-T," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin.

Scholz added that Germany has allocated or pledged a total of €28 billion in military aid to Ukraine.

Germany is the second-largest supplier of military aid to Ukraine, the German chancellor noted.

On 16 February, during Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to Germany, a bilateral agreement on security cooperation was signed, following up on the G7 declaration on security guarantees for Ukraine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described the signing of this agreement as a historic step.