Published 16 November 2022 at 11.02
Domestic. The government is sending a record-breaking support package to Ukraine, which includes, among other things, a Swedish air defense system.
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Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) announced the new support package at a press conference on Wednesday.
– We are now sending a record-breaking support package to Ukraine, both humanitarian and military. The defense of Ukraine's freedom is the most decisive foreign policy task of our time, he says.
The new military support package is planned to contain a qualified air defense weapon system including qualified ammunition, as well as qualified ammunition for additional air defense systems, personal all-terrain vehicles, personal equipment including winter equipment and body protection, aiming devices, tents and masking nets.
The content of the planned military support package amounts to a sum of approximately three billion kroner. This is one billion more than the sum of all previous aid packages with military equipment combined (about two billion).
The new humanitarian and emergency aid support covers Ukraine and Moldova and amounts to approximately SEK 720 million.