{"id":29714,"date":"2023-01-20T02:59:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T02:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29714"},"modified":"2023-01-20T03:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T03:04:47","slug":"ukraine-us-and-european-countries-pledge-heavy-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29714","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: US and European countries pledge heavy weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More countries have answered President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s call to send further arms to Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US says a package worth $2.5bn (\u00a32bn) will be sent, including armoured vehicles and air defence systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several European nations promised their own new packages &#8211; including hundreds of missiles pledged to Kyiv by the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcements come ahead of a crunch meeting scheduled in Germany on Friday, in which 50 countries are set to co-ordinate arms supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A meeting on Thursday saw representatives from 11 nations gather at an army base in Estonia to discuss a range of new packages to help Ukraine recapture territory and fend off any further Russian advances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nine countries &#8211; the UK, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Czech Republic, Estonia, the Netherlands and Slovakia &#8211; promised more support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The packages announced in a joint statement include:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: More countries have answered President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s call to send further arms to Ukraine. The US says a package worth $2.5bn (\u00a32bn) will be sent, including armoured vehicles and air defence systems. Several European nations promised their own new packages &#8211; including hundreds of missiles pledged to Kyiv by the UK. The announcements come ahead of a crunch meeting scheduled in Germany on Friday, in which 50 countries are set to co-ordinate arms supplies. A meeting on Thursday saw representatives from 11 nations gather at an army base in Estonia to discuss a range of new packages to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29715,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions\/29715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}