{"id":53590,"date":"2025-03-27T07:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/macron-pledges-additional-2-billion-euros-in-military-aid-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T07:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:02:16","slug":"macron-pledges-additional-2-billion-euros-in-military-aid-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/macron-pledges-additional-2-billion-euros-in-military-aid-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron pledges additional 2 billion Euros in military aid to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, this new assistance package includes a variety of military supplies, such as Milan anti-tank missiles, MICA missiles for Mirage fighter jets, Mistral air defense missiles, armored vehicles, munitions, and drones. Macron reaffirmed France&#8217;s commitment to supporting Ukraine\u2019s long-term peace and security.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came ahead of the summit of the &#8220;coalition of the willing&#8221; scheduled for Thursday, which will focus on short-term military support and explore how European countries can offer long-term security guarantees for Ukraine\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p>Macron also addressed the issue of peacekeeping forces, clarifying that such troops would not be stationed on the front lines. Instead, they may be deployed in strategic locations behind the front lines, such as towns or bases, to support Ukraine\u2019s military capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky, speaking alongside Macron, expressed hopes that the United States would maintain its efforts to enforce a ceasefire. <\/p>\n<p>However, Russia\u2019s condition for lifting sanctions on its banks and exports was met with a firm rejection from Macron. <\/p>\n<p>He stated that lifting sanctions would depend on Russia&#8217;s compliance with international law and insisted it was \u201cfar too early\u201d to consider easing them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-84347\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/ofpuiwvgtep1vqzs.jpg.png\" alt=\"French President Emmanuel Macron (2nd L) welcomes visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on March 26, 2025. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France will provide an additional 2 billion euros (approximately 2.2 billion U.S. dollars) in military aid to Ukraine, announced President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000084348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000084348,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ofpuiwvgtep1vqzs.jpg.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ofpuiwvgtep1vqzs.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ofpuiwvgtep1vqzs.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ofpuiwvgtep1vqzs.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ofpuiwvgtep1vqzs.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ofpuiwvgtep1vqzs.jpg.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000084348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53590"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53590"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}