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Poland, Nordics and Baltics To Step Up Aid To Ukraine
Poland, Nordic and Baltic states said on Wednesday they would in the coming months step up support for Ukraine, including to the country’s defense industry, and invest in making more ammunition available.
“We are committed to strengthening our deterrence, and defense, including resilience, against conventional as well as hybrid attacks, and to expanding sanctions against Russia as well as against those who enable Russia's aggression,” the leaders of Poland, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway and Sweden said in a statement.
“We share the same assessment of the security situation, including concerns about critical infrastructure and strategic resources along the Baltic Sea. We need new tools and ambitious means to counter threats,” Tusk said, adding that Poland’s response is a proposal to create a ‘navy policing’ mission in the Baltic Sea. Tusk said that his Baltic and Nordic counterparts found the proposal interesting and would continue to hone out the details.
Europe needs to take a greater responsibility for its own security,” Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in a separate statement. “That is preconditioned on us increasing our cooperation and continuing to support Ukraine, which is fighting for both its own and our security, over the long term.”
White House Urges Ukraine to Draft 18-Year-Olds to Increase Size of Military | AP News
Sorry, but lowering the draft age to 18 for the sake of getting more manpower while partners still spend months and years weighing the risks of escalation with every single weapon and equipment type that Ukraine begs for does not seem to look like a good long-term strategy.
— Illia Ponomarenko (@ioponomarenko.bsky.social) November 27, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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