Ukraine and Finland signed an agreement on security cooperation and long-term support. “I am grateful to our Finnish partners and Minister Antti Hakkanen for a new package of military assistance to Ukraine worth EUR 188 million. We are also stepping up our defence cooperation,” said Rustem Umerov, Minister of Defence of Ukraine. Finland will provide…
A total of 34 enterprises have already been corporatized as part of Ukrainian Defense Industry JSC (Ukroboronprom) under Ukraine’s defense industry reform. The relevant statement was made by Ukrainian Defense Industry JSC Corporatization Department Head Anton Savchenko during a public discussion on corporate governance reform in Ukraine’s defense industry. “More than 30 Ukroboronprom enterprises have…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised the Baltic countries for their defence budgets and support for Ukraine, calling them “leaders in NATO”. He met the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on March 25. “These three allies have been leaders in NATO, contributing significantly to their defence budgets, leading the way in NATO…
On March 25, the US Congress passed a bill that involved a total of $228 million in military and defence aid to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia this year under the Baltic Security Initiative. “Support from the US has significantly helped Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fast track several military infrastructure and capability development projects,” Estonian Defence…
The team of the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development is working comprehensively to provide logistics for medical evacuation: from urgent repairs of frontline roads and the construction of crossings to the creation of special medical evacuation trains. The medical trolleys were built in a matter of days in early March. Over the past…
Poland’s parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of suspending the country’s participation in an international treaty limiting the size of military forces in Europe that has been in place since 1990. The move is part of a wider NATO decision to suspend the operation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) in…
Poland has signed a EUR 1.5-billion (6.5 billion zloty) deal for the supply of thousands of Carl Gustaf M4 recoilless rifles and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition from Sweden, as the Nordic country prepares to join NATO. The shoulder-fired Carl-Gustaf rifles, produced by Swedish aerospace and defence company Saab, are designed to target…