COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Norway’s government said on Monday it will provide 2.7 billion crowns ($242.38 million) to strengthen the Ukrainian navy and help it deter Russian naval forces in the Black Sea.
“It is essential to protect the Ukrainian population and Ukrainian infrastructure from attacks by Russia’s Black Sea Fleet,” Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said in a statement.
“It is also important to protect exports by sea of grain and other products, which generate crucial revenues for Ukraine,” he added.
(Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, editing by Essi Lehto)
