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NATO To Agree On Spending Another 40 Billion Euros In Weapons For Ukraine, Stoltenberg Says

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, July 8th, 2024

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NATO To Agree On Spending Another 40 Billion Euros In Weapons For Ukraine, Stoltenberg Says

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III thanks Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General at the conclusion of the defense ministeral “family photo” at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Feb. 15, 2023. (DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley)

NATO allies this week are expected to agree on spending another 40 billion euros, or around $43.3 billion, in weapons aid for Ukraine over the next year as a “minimum baseline,” the alliance’s leader has said. “Allies agree that this is a minimum baseline. And I expect allies will decide at the [NATO] summit [in Washington, D.C.] to sustain this level within the next year. I also expect that allies will agree to share the burden fairly, taking into account…

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