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Netherlands allocates over $210 million for ammunition for Ukraine.
The Netherlands has allocated more than 200 million euros (roughly $210 million) to new initiatives for quick delivery of air defense and artillery ammunition for Ukraine, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren said on April 19.
Ukraine has been facing increasingly critical ammunition shortages, compounded by intensifying Russian attacks and delays in U.S. assistance.
"Air defense equipment and artillery ammunition are desperately needed in Ukraine. The situation may turn critical," Ollongren said during an online meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council .
President Volodymyr Zelensky requested the gathering earlier this week amid Russia's intensifying aerial attacks on Ukrainian cities that continue to highlight the growing shortage of sufficient air defense systems.
"The resources to which the Netherlands is now contributing are already on the European continent and will go to Ukraine as quickly as possible. We must now all do everything we can to support Ukraine," the Dutch defense minister noted.
Specifically, the country is devoting 150 million euros ($160 million) to Germany's Immediate Action on Air Defense initiative. The Netherlands has also allocated 60 million euros ($64 million) for the purchase of short-range air defense hardware, for example, to counter Russian drones.
The Netherlands has further contributed to the Estonian initiative to buy artillery shells for Ukraine from existing stocks. Previously, the country pledged 250 million euros ($266 million) to the Czech plan to buy artillery rounds outside of Europe.
Yermak: Ukraine strongly encouraging Chinese participation in upcoming global peace summit.
While Russia has not been invited to the summit, Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak said that China’s attendance would be very important, and that Ukraine is making every effort to engage Chinese delegates in participating in the event.
Russia attacks 9 communities in Sumy Oblast
Russian forces attacked nine border areas and settlements of Sumy Oblast on May 2, firing 40 times and causing at least 215 explosions, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported.
Battle of Chasiv Yar begins under a drone-infested sky.
Over March and April, Russian forces made a string of gains through fields and forests, bringing them up against the first streets of Chasiv Yar.
Georgian PM refuses to visit US due to condition regarding 'foreign agents' law.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze will not travel to the U.S. because he was invited under the condition that Tbilisi suspend discussions on the controversial "foreign agents" law in parliament, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said on May 2.
One night with Ukrainian drone hunters near Russia
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Trump fined $9,000 for violating judge's gag order
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Breaking News: NYPD officers sent into Columbia University's campus amid protests.
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New phase in Russia's misinformation campaign against U.
The Kremlin is shifting its focus to the war in Gaza, trying to inflame tensions in the United States, including the campus protests over the war, according to sources familiar with the intelligence reporting and independent researchers. The aim, ...