--- title: "Monday's Stake: Zelensky Announces Key Decisions on Weapons and Long-Range Artillery" description: "Zelensky announced an urgent Stake meeting for Monday: decisions will be made on the supply of long-range artillery and UGS. The President also reported on enemy losses in Zaporizhzhia β€” 7,000 per month from the 17th Corps alone. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸš€" date: 2026-07-18T18:52:00.000Z lang: en url: https://xab.info/en/posts/mondays-stake-zelensky-announces-key-decisions-on-weapons-and-long-range-artillery tags: [zelensky, ukraine, stavka, army, weapons-supply] publisher: "XAB.info" --- # Monday's Stake: Zelensky Announces Key Decisions on Weapons and Long-Range Artillery ![Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sits at a desk in his office, preparing for an important announcement regarding weapons and further actions.](https://xab.info/media/2026/07/18/stavka-v-ponedelnik-zelenskiy-annonsiroval-kluchevye-resheniya-po-oruzhiyu-i-dalnoboyke/stavka-v-ponedelnik-zelenskiy-annonsiroval-kluchevye-resheniya-po-oruzhiyu-i-dalnoboyke-1.webp) On Monday, a critically important meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), known as the Stake, will take place in Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the agenda of the meeting will focus on resolving urgent issues regarding army supply and the situation on the front lines. This was revealed in the evening video address of the head of state, as cited by RBC-Ukraine. According to Zelensky, it is on this day that decisions will be made on all necessary weapon deliveries, including long-range artillery and unguided rocket systems (UGS). ### Working with Partners and New Deliveries The President emphasized that he is actively working with international partners to fulfill previously reached agreements. This refers to the delivery of missiles and other specialized types of weaponry necessary for conducting combat operations. Zelensky noted that all issues related to logistics and delivery volumes will be thoroughly worked out at the upcoming meeting. ### Frontline Situation: Commanders' Report Before the Stake meeting, the President held a series of meetings with corps commanders to obtain up-to-date information on the situation in various sectors of the front. In particular, the situations in Pokrovsk and other directions in Donbas, as well as in the Alexandrovsk direction, in the Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions, were discussed. Special attention was paid to the actions of the 17th Corps in Zaporizhzhia. Zelensky provided specific statistics: this corps alone inflicts losses on the enemy amounting to about 7,000 killed and wounded every month. "There, in that direction, there are constant Russian assaults. The occupier's army simply does not count its losses. Therefore, of course, it is difficult, but the corps is delivering results for Ukraine," the President stated. ### Focus on Drone Warfare Earlier, Zelensky had already held a special Stake meeting with the participation of combat commanders and representatives of the defense industry. At that meeting, issues of large-scale drone supply to the front and technical challenges related to the production of fiber-optic controlled unmanned aerial vehicles were discussed. The head of state also met with the commanders of six army and airborne assault corps. The meeting analyzed the course of hostilities in the Slavyansk, Pokrovsk, Alexandrovsk, and Kharkiv directions. This data will form the basis for the decisions to be made on Monday.