{"id":11230,"date":"2025-04-11T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/11230\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:50:09","slug":"allies-pledge-e21b-in-weapons-for-ukraine-while-denouncing-russian-attacks-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/11230\/","title":{"rendered":"Allies pledge \u20ac21B in weapons for Ukraine while denouncing Russian attacks \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. earlier gave details of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/450m-surge-of-military-support-to-boost-ukraines-armed-forces-as-uk-and-germany-chair-meeting-of-50-nations#:~:text=As%20chair%20of%20the%20meeting,military%20support%20funding%20for%20Ukraine.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new support worth \u00a3450 million<\/a> for Ukraine, about \u00a3350 million of which will be provided by Britain, with extra funding from Norway via the U.K.-led International Fund for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>It includes \u00a3160 million to provide repairs and maintenance to vehicles and equipment the U.K. has already provided Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for radar systems, anti-tank mines and hundreds of thousands of drones worth more than \u00a3250 million is also part of the package.<\/p>\n<p>The German defense ministry said that Berlin&#8217;s package included guided missiles as well as 100,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, 300 reconnaissance drones, 25 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 15 Leopard 1A5 main battle tanks, 120 Manpads ground-based air defense systems and 14 artillery systems.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is also pledging longer-term support, including 1,100 additional ground surveillance radars and further IRIS-T air defense systems in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a militarily strong Ukraine,\u201d Pistorius said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.K. earlier gave details of new support worth \u00a3450 million for Ukraine, about \u00a3350 million of which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2594,7703,7668,32,2000,7704,299,1824,2819,2598,2821,602,332,7705,2824,657,15,49,333,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-11230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-artillery","10":"tag-boris-pistorius","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-john-healey","17":"tag-missiles","18":"tag-nato","19":"tag-pete-hegseth","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-rustem-umerov","22":"tag-tanks","23":"tag-ukraine","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-vladimir-putin","27":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}