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Sweden has announced another package of support for Ukraine, following hot on the heels of Canada’s additional support announced this week and last week’s support from the UK and the EU.
Western military observers monitoring the Ukrainian crisis are holding their breath in bated anticipation ahead of the arrival of the F-16 fighter jets long promised to Kiev, which Russia has vowed to shoot out of the skies as soon as they’re deployed. But some Ukrainian officials are already setting their sights on far more ambitious goals.
Ukraine’s president traveled to Germany and France on Friday to sign security pacts with the pair of European powers amid fading US military and financial assistance to Kiev. Sputnik asked a leading Swedish geopolitics and defense affairs expert about Ukraine’s motivations on the one hand and those of the Europeans on the other.