The Netherlands will allocate an additional €1bn in military aid to Kiev, the country’s acting Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said.
He wrote about this in social network X.
According to Rutte, he said in a conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the Netherlands would allocate another €1bn for military support for Ukraine in 2024.
He specified that this is in addition to the already planned €2bn.
“Next year we will allocate €3bn for military support for Kiev”, Rutte added.
Earlier, MEPs staged a demarche at the plenary session in Brussels, refusing to approve the EU Council’s budget expenditures for 2022 under the pretext of insufficient efforts to provide Ukraine with missile defence systems.
As Bloomberg wrote, Washington has no plan B to support Ukraine, except for the $60bn tranche blocked by Congress.