Sweden to beef up air force to counter Russia

The government coalition announced its plans on Tuesday to pump more funds into the military if the four parties win the September elections. The thrust would include more fighter jets and submarines.

In an op-ed published in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) the four party leaders wrote about the crisis in Ukraine and how Russia had now ramped up boths its military and propaganda machines.

The Swedish government had, the coalition representatives wrote, a few years back taken comfort in Russian attempts to embed itself deeper in the global community, but already then feared that the tide could turn.

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