Norway will more than double its aid to Ukraine in 2025 to bring the annual total to 7.8 billion US dollars, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced Thursday, expressing concern that Russia was "heavily arming".

OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian government will soon ask that parliament increases its financial backing for Ukraine, Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told public broadcaster NRK on Saturday. "I can say today that we will go back to parliament in the near future with a proposal to increase the support," Stoere told NRK.

Possibly stung by criticism from other European States as well as the USA, the Norwegian Parliament voted unanimously on March 6 to increase aid to Ukraine

Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere on Saturday said the Norwegian government will soon ask that parliament increases its financial backing for

The value of Norway’s war windfall is almost equivalent to all US military and civilian support for Ukraine to date. As the US position on European security becomes increasingly ambiguous, Norway should deploy its windfall to the benefit of the European citizens from whom it came, by allocating it in full to Ukraine’s defence and reconstruction.