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Macron announces €100-million fund for Ukraine to buy arms

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks the final press conference at the Prague castle where a summit to launch the "European Political Community" has taken place in the Czech Republic, on October 7, 2022. © Ludovic Marin, AFP

France has created a fund, initially worth €100 million ($98 million), for Ukraine to directly buy weapons and other materiel it needs in its war against invading Russia, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday.

"We are setting up this special, dedicated fund initially with €100 million to allow the acquisition of equipment that we have already delivered and that we will continue to do so in terms of weapons, meaning defensive ones," Macron said after a summit in Prague.

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