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Zelenskyy thanked Støre for expressing condolences over the tragic consequences of Russian large-scale strikes on 2 June, News.Az reports, citing European Pravda.
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“We discussed air defense supplies – Norway is ready to help, thank you!” Zelenskyy wrote on X, without providing further details.
Zelenskyy added that work is also underway to ensure that Europe develops its own capabilities to intercept ballistic missiles.
“We must fully accomplish this shared task and provide Europe with its own system strong enough to protect against ballistic threats. When Europe is protected against ballistic missiles, it will boost confidence not just for someone alone on our continent, but truly for all Europeans. We are also preparing for meetings in the near future – there will be special formats for our work,” he added.
In early May, Norway allocated about US$303 million for the purchase of US weapons for Ukraine under NATO’s Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) programme.
Recently, Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov revealed that more than 90% of Ukraine’s means of countering ballistic missiles are supplied through PURL.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence has also stated that partner countries’ contributions to PURL are currently sufficient to continue supplying Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy wrote a letter to US President Donald Trump and members of Congress last week, highlighting shortages of air defence systems and noting that the pace of deliveries through PURL is failing to keep up with actual needs.

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Ye has drawn widespread controversy in recent years for a series of antisemitic remarks, leaving Dutch authorities under mounting pressure to cancel the events on June 6 and 8, News.Az reports, citing Irish news.
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The Central Jewish Council filed the emergency lawsuit on Tuesday, arguing that Ye should be banned from the country for voicing admiration for Adolf Hitler and selling T-shirts featuring swastikas.
According to the Amsterdam District Court, there were no grounds to bar Ye from performing. “There are no indications that West’s presence in the coming days will lead to concrete public order dangers,” the court said in a statement.
The Central Jewish Council expressed disappointment with the ruling.
“The feeling we are getting is that it is OK if you are antisemitic,” Chanan Hertzberger, the organization’s chairman, told The Associated Press.Lawmakers in the Netherlands supported a motion to bar Ye from entering the country but the country’s immigration minister said there was no legal basis for such a move. Ye’s remarks were “reprehensible” but there was “no reason to bar him”, Bart van den Brink told journalists last week.
The 48-year-old was set to perform his first European dates in more than a decade. In April, he was barred from entering the UK over his remarks, setting off a series of cancellations. Shows in Italy and Poland have been scrapped.
More than 100,000 fans turned out in Istanbul on Saturday evening to watch Ye’s first performance in Turkey.
Concert organizers say 70,000 tickets have been sold for the two shows at the Gelredome in the eastern Dutch city of Arnhem.
Ye apologised in January through a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal, stating that his bipolar disorder led him to fall into “a four-month long, manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behaviour that destroyed my life”.

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