STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden will send its 17th aid package to Ukraine with fresh military support measures totalling 4.6 billion Swedish crowns ($443 million), Defence Minister Pal Jonson said on Monday. The new package will include ammunition for infantry fighting vehicles already donated by Sweden, as well as purchases that would facilitate a transfer of Gripen […]
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden will send its 17th aid package to Ukraine with fresh military support measures totalling 4.6 billion Swedish crowns ($443 million), Defence Minister Pal Jonson said on Monday.
The new package will include ammunition for infantry fighting vehicles already donated by Sweden, as well as purchases that would facilitate a transfer of Gripen fighter jets in the future, though no such transfer has been decided on yet.
“We want to have the ability to donate Gripens to Ukraine at a possible later stage,” Jonson told a news conference.
($1 = 10.3724 Swedish crowns)
(Reporting by Anna Ringstrom and Niklas Pollard; Editing by Kevin Liffey)