2.2 billion euros.. Sweden and Denmark buy 205 combat armored vehicles

Sweden and Denmark signed a contract with a Swedish company that manufactures military equipment to purchase 205 combat armored vehicles with the aim of replenishing their stocks after providing aid to Ukraine.
The Swedish government indicated in a statement that 115 were delivered to Denmark, 50 to Sweden, and 40 to Ukraine, out of 205 CV90 vehicles ordered.

Swedish combat vehicles

The contract concluded with BAE Systems Haglund, a subsidiary of the British company BAE Systems, amounts to 25 billion Swedish krona, equivalent to (2.2 billion euros).
Swedish Defense Minister Pall Jonsson explained: “These investments in more Swedish combat vehicles will make Europe, and especially Ukraine, safer.”

War in Ukraine

Ten countries own CV90 combat vehicles: the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the West had ignited the war in Ukraine.
He explained that he was responsible for starting a new cold war that could turn into a direct confrontation, warning that the matter could turn into a hot phase.

North Korea’s nuclear program

Lavrov said that the West had ignited the war in Ukraine, and that it was responsible for starting a new cold war, which could turn into a direct confrontation, warning that the matter could turn into a hot phase.
Western diplomats criticized the statements made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Malta.
On the other hand, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that Russia supports North Korea’s nuclear and missile program, in exchange for obtaining weapons and soldiers from Pyongyang in its war against Ukraine.

Global danger

“These developments could destabilize the Korean Peninsula, and even threaten the United States,” he said at a press conference in Brussels.
Rutte also pointed to the global danger posed by, according to him, “the increasing coordination between Russia, China, North Korea and Iran” in this conflict.
Rutte and many European countries affiliated with NATO are trying to convince US President-elect Donald Trump, before he takes power in January, of the necessity of continuing to support Ukraine.