Lithuania to approve three-year aid plan for Ukraine, including military support

Lithuania to approve three-year aid plan for Ukraine, including military support

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Lithuania intends to approve a three-year assistance plan for Ukraine, including military support, humanitarian demining, and equipment repair, as confirmed by the Lithuanian Prime Minister.

Lithuania plans to approve a three-year  plan for military and other assistance to Ukraine, which will include treatment and rehabilitation, training of the military, humanitarian and military demining, and repair of military equipment. This was announced by Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonite during a joint  briefing with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, an UNN correspondent reports.

We have to do even more, and that is why we agreed, in consultation with our colleagues in Kyiv, to approve a three-year plan for military and other assistance to Ukraine, which will include treatment and rehabilitation of the military, training of new soldiers, humanitarian and military demining, and restoration of military vehicles 

- said Simonite.

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal noted that since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, Lithuania has provided Ukraine with more than €1 billion in aid.

"In recent months, we have also received armored vehicles, ammunition, radar equipment, and marine radars. In November, Lithuania handed over two launchers of the NASAMS air defense system. They are already on combat duty", Shmyhal said.

In addition, Shmyhal expressed gratitude for the positive consideration of the request to provide Ukraine with Lithuanian-made electronic warfare equipment to counter Russian drones.