“To mark his 70th birthday, we gave another gift to the aggressor Putin,” he said on Twitter.
“Two new Zuzana 2 howitzers are already in Ukraine.”
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The Slovak minister added that even more weapons would be delivered to Ukraine in future.
On Oct. 2, Germany, Norway and Denmark agreed to purchase 16 Slovakian Zuzana 2 self-propelled howitzers for delivery to Ukraine. The deliveries of the new weapons will start next year.
In June, Ukraine and Slovakia signed a contract for the supply of eight 155-mm self-propelled guns. On Aug. 13, it was reported that Kyiv had already received the first four.
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Zuzana 2 is an 8×8 self-propelled gun (caliber 155 mm, based on the previous version of the Zuzana, but with a longer barrel and longer firing range (42 kilometers).
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