COPENHAGEN: Sweden will donate two radar surveillance and command aircraft to Ukraine to boost its defences in the war with Russia, the Swedish government said on Wednesday (May 29), its largest aid package to Ukraine so far, worth about 13.3 billion Swedish crowns (US$1.3 billion).
The Swedish Defense Minister Paal Jonson attends the NORDEFCO press conference in Torshavn on the Faroe Islands, on Apr 30, 2024. COPENHAGEN: Sweden will donate two radar surveillance and command aircraft to Ukraine to boost its defences in the war with Russia, the Swedish government said on Wednesday , its largest aid package to Ukraine so far, worth about 13.3 billion Swedish crowns .
"They will complement and reinforce the F-16 systems," Defence Minister Pal Jonson told a press briefing in Stockholm. Earlier this week, Ukraine's defence minister said he hoped the first F-16 fighter jets would be delivered to Ukraine"very soon".
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