The Netherlands will aid Ukraine with an additional 1 billion this year. Which will make it a total of 3 billion.

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  1. TRANSLATION (from the article)

    This year, the Netherlands will release an additional 1 billion euros for military aid to Ukraine. The outgoing cabinet announced this in a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Mark Rutte tweeted. This brings the total of military support this year to 3 billion euros.

    “Ukraine needs more to protect itself,” Rutte said in a [tweet](https://twitter.com/MinPres/status/1778794175808315469). “This week there were large-scale attacks on power plants. Civilians were also killed in attacks again.”

    Furthermore, 3 billion will also go to Ukraine in military aid next year, the prime minister said. €400 million will also be released for support to Ukraine’s economy and infrastructure.

    The country has been under heavy fire from Russia in recent weeks. “Ukraine must win this battle,” the outgoing prime minister tweeted. “For their safety and ours.” [In this video](https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/politiek/artikel/5445086/rutte-1-miljard-extra-dit-jaar-voor-militaire-steun-aan-oekraine), Rutte expressed his support for Ukraine.

    Yesterday it became clear that the government is releasing money to achieve the NATO standard. It ensures that Dutch expenditure on Defense will be above 2 percent until 2026. In 2024 it will be 2.15 percent, in 2025 it will be 2.05 percent and in 2026 it will be 2.22 percent. After that it falls back to 1.9 percent.

    It is then up to a new cabinet to ensure that the agreed NATO standard is subsequently achieved.

    The Hague has been working with both Prague and Copenhagen for some time to help Ukraine. The Netherlands will supply F-16 fighter aircraft with the Danes. They also train Ukrainian pilots to fly this aircraft. The Netherlands recently spent a quarter of a billion euros on an initiative by the Czechs to purchase 800,000 artillery shells for Ukraine in the very short term.

  3. Good good! I hope our politicians can convince other governments to continue the support too.

  6. no money can be enough to stop zombie army, need air defence, artillery and man power, increase foreign legion capacity…

  7. Thank you Netherlands! You are so 🔥 right now 😍

  8. No worries lads, unless the crazies take over the parlement we’ll keep providing aid, shells planes ammo and what not in boatloads. Screw uncle Vlad and his bald army of orcs. They are gonna run more money through parlement so more will come

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