{"id":187290,"date":"2022-08-12T09:20:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T01:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=187290"},"modified":"2022-08-12T09:20:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T01:20:19","slug":"russia-ukraine-conflict-donors-pledge-1-5-billion-euros-more-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=187290","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine conflict: Donors pledge 1.5 billion euros more for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2022\/08\/11\/image-76731-1660238762.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br>COPENHAGEN, Aug \u00a012 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Ukraine donors&#8217; conference in\u00a0Copenhagen of 26 countries pledged 1.5 billion euros more\u00a0aid for training and equipment for Kyiv&#8217;s forces, the Danish defence minister\u00a0said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;All the participating nations here pledged for support, for training\u00a0activities, demining activities, some with concrete donations,&#8221; Morten Bodskov\u00a0said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;The 1.5 billion euros was brought to the table today. It&#8217;s\u00a0money that will be used in 2022, this year and next year,&#8221; he said during a\u00a0news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exact amount promised by each of the 26 countries including France,\u00a0Germany and the United States, was not published but Denmark announced a\u00a0supplementary donation of $114 million for Ukraine, bringing its total support\u00a0<br>to Kyiv to $417 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Britain, which organised the conference with Denmark and Ukraine, promised\u00a0nearly $300 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;Our partners know that we need funding and they articulated readiness to\u00a0support us financially,&#8221; Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said as he\u00a0welcomed the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;That is a marathon and for a marathon you need energy and frankly\u00a0speaking, the main energy in this case is money,&#8221; he added. \u00a0The donors will meet again next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;We will work with concrete productions of new artillery,&#8221; Bodskov said. &#8220;These are production lines that will be open when we find the finances for\u00a0them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0The United States announced earlier this week that it would provide $89\u00a0million to Ukraine for removing land mines put in place by Russian forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Back in May, a donors&#8217; conference raised more than six billion euros in\u00a0Warsaw for Kyiv. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0COPENHAGEN, Aug \u00a012 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Ukraine donors&#8217; conference in\u00a0Copenhagen of 26 countries pledged 1.5 billion euros more\u00a0aid for training and equipment for Kyiv&#8217;s forces, the Danish defence minister\u00a0said. \u00a0&#8220;All the participating nations here pledged for support, for training\u00a0activities, demining activities, some with concrete donations,&#8221; Morten Bodskov\u00a0said. \u00a0&#8220;The 1.5 billion euros was brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":187292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187294,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187290\/revisions\/187294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}