{"id":23387,"date":"2022-06-14T07:21:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T07:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=23387"},"modified":"2022-06-14T07:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T07:21:57","slug":"lithuania-to-buy-howitzers-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/14\/lithuania-to-buy-howitzers-from-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania to buy howitzers from France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Lithuania has agreed to buy 18 howitzers from France, both sides\u2019 defence ministers announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Lithuania, a European Union and Nato member, will inject an additional \u20ac300m ($312m) into its 2022 defence budget as the\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0war ramped up security fears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Lithuanian defence minister Arvydas Anusauskas tweeted alongside a photo with his French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"dcr-192pdjc\"><p>Lithuania will buy 18 Caesar MarktII howitzers from France.<\/p>\n<p>They will significantly strengthen the Lithuanian armed forces\u2019 defence capabilities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"e42c52d5-6ad6-4483-8faf-94e4fb32fb88\" class=\" dcr-10khgmf\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TweetBlockElement\">\n<div id=\"tweet-container-e42c52d5-6ad6-4483-8faf-94e4fb32fb88\" class=\"dcr-ard5ae\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia &#8211; all Nato members and part of the former Soviet Union &#8211; have come to Ukraine\u2019s defence with military hardware and humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Lithuania has said it sent military supplies worth \u201ctens of millions\u201d of euros, including Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, mortars, rifles, ammunition and other equipment. Lithuanians also crowdfunded over five million euros to buy Ukraine another Bayraktar drone.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"dcr-1eoy87d\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-16kzvwd\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania has agreed to buy 18 howitzers from France, both sides\u2019 defence ministers announced on Monday. Lithuania, a European Union and Nato member, will inject an additional \u20ac300m ($312m) into its 2022 defence budget as the\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0war ramped up security fears. Lithuanian defence minister Arvydas Anusauskas tweeted alongside a photo with his French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6850,11363,9747,11830,5249,9506,5692,9505,1195,5575,6351,7183,8251,12186,7182,7181,5572,9683,6864,12985,4802,9462,5655,7820,5180,7231,5251,3954],"class_list":["post-23387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-aid","tag-aircraft","tag-ammunition","tag-armed-forces","tag-budget","tag-drone","tag-estonia","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-french","tag-howitzers","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-latvia","tag-latvia-and-estonia","tag-lithuania","tag-military","tag-millions","tag-ministers","tag-missiles","tag-nato","tag-sebastien-lecornu","tag-security","tag-soviet-union","tag-ukraine","tag-union","tag-war","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}