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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lorne Cook

NATO's newest members offer to buy more US arms for Ukraine as Western backing declines

Belgium NATO Defense Ministers - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

NATO’s two newest members, Finland and Sweden, said Wednesday that they would buy more weapons from the United States to give to Ukraine, a day after data showed that foreign military aid to the war-torn country had declined sharply in recent months.

Over the summer, NATO started to coordinate regular deliveries of large weapons packages to Ukraine to help fend off Russia's war. The aim was to send at least one load a month of targeted and predictable military support, each worth around $500 million.

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