Norway will financially join the initiative to provide Ukraine with additional air defense systems, — Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre for TV2.

“We have limited time to delay, so Norway will be involved in the financing. Several other countries are contributing to this, because there is air defense equipment that can get to Ukraine quite quickly, and they have been working intensively on this in the last few days and weeks,” the Norwegian prime minister said.

He emphasized that it takes time to manufacture air defense equipment. Therefore, the countries' own air defense equipment needs to be sent now.

"This has been the pattern so far, and we have also contributed to it. Other countries will also dig deeper to contribute to this. We also need to increase production. The news every morning is about Russian missiles and drones that hit civilian buildings, power plants and killed many people,” Støre emphasized.

According to him, in order to make an effective impact, Norway will revise the budget of the Nansen program, which provides military and civilian support to Ukraine in the amount of 75 billion Norwegian kroner over five years.

Jonas Gahr Støre states that there are significant amounts of money to be spent on air defense, but does not give an exact amount.

“We will return to this when we present the revised budget. It is expensive, but preserving peace and freedom costs money. Ukraine and Ukrainians pay the most expensive price,” he emphasized.