Sweden can help fund Ukraine’s Gripen deal

Sweden and Ukraine are making progress on financing for a major deal that could include Kyiv buying up to 150 Gripen E fighter jets, Sweden’s defence minister told Reuters on Thursday, adding that Stockholm could fund part of the deal via military aid.
Sweden signed a long-term cooperation agreement in October with Ukraine for air defences that includes the possibility of exporting the fourth-generation fighter jets, in what would be Sweden’s biggest aircraft order yet.