Estonia to provide 113 million euros worth of military aid to Ukraine
Prime Minister Kaja Kallas announced on Thursday that Estonia will provide 113 million euros worth of military aid to Ukraine.
The Estonian Government decided to provide Ukraine with the largest military aid package to date, which includes remote fire and anti-tank weapons as well as ammunition worth a total of 113 million euros.
Estonia's military assistance to Ukraine will increase to 370 million euros or slightly more than 1% of Estonia's gross domestic product.
“The government decided today to send #Estonia's biggest aid package of heavy weapons so far to Ukraine. This takes our total military aid to Ukraine over 1% of our GDP. The package includes howitzers, grenade launchers, and ammunition - what Ukraine has asked us for,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas wrote on Twitter
Kallas went on to say: “We all want the war to end but Russia has sent a clear signal that it wants to continue its war of aggression. Despite losses in manpower and technology, Russia has still thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery in its warehouses ready to dash into war.”
Noting that Russia also has huge manpower and will continue to mobilize hundreds of thousands, Kallas said: “This is why the whole transatlantic community must do more and give military aid at greater scale and speed to ensure Ukraine's victory. Let's look into our stockpiles and ensure our industry produces more, faster.”
“Russian aggression has a price to all of us – a price we pay in euros but Ukraine pays in human lives. That price would be much-much higher for the whole world if aggression paid off,” she added. (ILKHA)