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Sweden increases aid to Ukraine – and sends more Archers

by AI | 13.Mar 2025 | Europe in brief AI

Sweden increases aid to Ukraine by 1.4 billion kronor, which will be channeled to the country primarily through the EU, the World Bank, and the UNDP. Sweden also signs an agreement for 18 artillery pieces of the Archer type for Ukraine.

Benjamin Dousa, Swedish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT

Stockholm – Sweden increases aid to Ukraine by 1.4 billion kronor.

The support is largely “more of the same” in the form that Sweden has already provided to Ukraine and will be channeled to the country primarily via the EU, the World Bank, and the UN organization UNDP. It will go to humanitarian aid and to rebuild and strengthen energy supply, housing, and infrastructure, among other things. The money is arranged through reallocations in the aid budget for 2025.

“This is Sweden’s largest civilian support in our country’s history,” says Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa.

Total aid to Ukraine from Sweden thus amounts to 7.8 billion kronor, says Dousa. That corresponds to 14 percent of the total aid budget.

At the same time, it was made clear on Thursday that Sweden signs an agreement for 18 artillery pieces of the type Archer to send to Ukraine at a total cost of 3 billion kronor. The money was already announced in a previous support package, now the government announces what it is buying.

“We are very focused on increasing and intensifying support for Ukraine,” says Minister of Defense Pål Jonson:

“It is natural for Europe to take greater responsibility for the military support to Ukraine now. Our assessment is that Ukraine also acts as a shield against Russian military expansion”.

(March 13)