“The question is not whether we should send it, but when we will send it,” TASS quoted Billström as saying in an interview with the Expressen newspaper.
He noted that Sweden, as the EU presidency, will work on activating Europe on the issue of assistance to Ukraine.
On December 12, Swedish Defense Minister Paul Jonsson said that there would be no deliveries of Swedish JAS 39 Gripen fighters to Ukraine in the near future.