Green light for Swedish weapons in Ukraine's offensive inside Russia

Published 18 August 2024 at 16.19

Foreign. The Ukrainian advance in Russian Kursk is still going well, and the war-torn country is now also allowed to use Swedish weapons inside Russia, according to Defense Minister Pål Jonson (M).

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It was a hard-nosed and hard-nosed Swedish defense minister who appeared in Rosenbad on Thursday, apparently mainly to explain the great deeds that he and Ulf Kristersson have accomplished in the field of defense lately.

“The biggest security policy change in 200 years”, according to Jonson himself, who had used a hefty dose of hair gel to increase his own 167 centimeters on the day of glory.

Jonson, who made a thing of not even try to communicate in comprehensible national Swedish during the press meetings, also had some news to present. Namely that Ukraine can now use Swedish weapons to attack Russian targets inside Russia.

– According to international law, Ukraine has the right to defend itself inside and outside its territory, explained Jonson, who after writing a 0.7 in the university exam actually managed to get a doctorate in “war science” in the early 2000s.

The government now also wants the Defense Materiel Agency, FMV, to review the possibilities of establishing itself in Ukraine in order to contribute more directly to the war against Russia. He also expresses that he is impressed by Ukraine's ability to push Russia back on its own territory.

– They are taking a lot of territory now and this brings to mind Kharkiv in the fall of 2022, where Ukraine also managed to regain a large part of its territory.

At the same time, the government has a plan for how the defense here at home should be managed despite the great support for Ukraine. Namely by the USA, when the DCA agreement also entered into force on Thursday.

The Swedish support to Ukraine now amounts to the same sums as a traditional Swedish defense budget.

– We are leaving a large contribution to Ukraine of over 43 billion in various platforms and systems and what guides us is international law, says Pål Jonson.