Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister Ann Linde said that her country decided to make a second shipment of weapons to Ukraine, after having authorized on February 26 a first shipment worth 37.7 million euros.
Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist confirmed the news and stated that “it is extremely important to continue to actively support Ukraine.”
Since the Soviet invasion of its territory in 1939, Finland had remained a neutral nation and committed not to send weapons to countries in conflict. This diplomatic tradition, however, was broken in February.
