The United States, Canada and other European countries
have so far responded to urgent Ukrainian appeals for military equipment.
According to AFP reports, some of the
countries, including Sweden, have started to send military or humanitarian aid
to Ukraine since Russia invaded on Thursday.
Here are 15 of the countries:
– United States –
Washington said Saturday it is sending an extra $350 million
in military aid to Kyiv to bring its total support to more than a billion
dollars over the last year.
“This package will include further lethal defensive
assistance to help Ukraine address the armoured, airborne and other threats it
is now facing,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
On Sunday, Blinken announced $54 million in new humanitarian
aid to be spent through NGOs.
– Canada –
Canada is sending lethal military weaponry to Ukraine and loaning
Kyiv half a billion Canadian dollars ($394 million) to help it defend itself.
– Germany –
Berlin has broken a longstanding taboo of not exporting arms
to conflict zones in vowing to send Ukraine 1,000 anti-tank weapons, 500
“Stinger” surface-to-air missiles and nine howitzers.
It is also donating 14 armoured vehicles and 10,000 tonnes
of fuel.
– Sweden –
Stockholm is also breaking its historic neutral stance to
send 5,000 anti-tank rockets to Ukraine as well as field rations and body
armour.
It is the first time Sweden has sent weapons to a country in
armed conflict since the Soviet Union invaded neighbouring Finland in 1939.
– France –
France, which has already sent help, is dispatching more
military equipment as well as fuel.
Paris says it has acted on earlier Ukrainian requests for
defensive anti-aircraft and digital weapons.
– Britain –
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is committed to
“provide further UK support to Ukraine in the coming days”, without specifying
what it might be.
– Belgium –
Belgium says it will supply Ukraine with 3,000 more
automatic rifles and 200 anti-tank weapons, as well as 3,800 tons of fuel.
– Netherlands –
The Dutch defence ministry says it is sending “200 Stinger
missiles as soon as possible”, after a shipment Saturday of sniper rifles and
helmets.
It adds to the 20 million euros ($22 million) of
humanitarian aid it has already promised.
– Czech Republic –
Prague said Saturday it is sending 4,000 mortars “in the
next few hours” as well as an arsenal of 30,000 pistols, 7,000 assault rifles,
3,000 machine guns as well as scores of sniper rifles and a million bullets.
The Czechs had already promised Kyiv 4,000 mortars worth 1.5
million euros ($1.6 million) which have yet to be delivered.
– Italy –
Rome has sent 110 million euros ($123 million) in immediate
aid to the Ukrainian government as “a concrete sign of our support,” Foreign
Minister Luigi Di Maio tweeted.
– Portugal –
Portugal is giving Ukraine night vision goggles, bulletproof
vest, helmets, grenades, ammunition and automatic G3 rifles.
– Greece –
Greece, which has a large community in Ukraine — 10 of whom
have been killed with many more in the firing line — is sending “defence
equipment” as well as humanitarian aid.
– Romania –
Bucharest – which shares a border with Ukraine – is offering
to treat the wounded in its 11 military hospitals as well as sending fuel,
bulletproof vests, helmets and other “military material” worth three million
euros ($3.3 million).
– Spain –
Madrid has promised to send 20 tonnes of aid to Ukraine,
mostly medical and defensive equipment such as bulletproof vests.
– Israel –
Israel says it is sending 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid
such as medical equipment, water purifiers, tents and sleeping bags.
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