{"id":50230,"date":"2024-03-31T19:31:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50230"},"modified":"2024-03-31T19:31:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:31:24","slug":"france-to-provide-armoured-vehicles-missiles-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50230","title":{"rendered":"France to provide armoured vehicles, missiles to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>France&#8217;s defence minister said Paris would deliver &#8220;hundreds&#8221; of armoured personnel carriers and anti-aircraft missiles as part a new aid package to Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To hold such as extensive front line, the Ukrainian army needs for example our VAB vehicles: it&#8217;s absolutely essential for troop mobility,&#8221; Sebastien Lecornu told La Tribune newspaper in an interview published late Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>France is currently phasing out its VAB fleet &#8212; some of them more than 40 years old &#8212; with new Griffon armoured vehicles, but Lecornu said the older models were &#8220;still operational&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about hundreds of them for 2024 and early 2025,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s defence minister said Paris would deliver &#8220;hundreds&#8221; of armoured personnel carriers and anti-aircraft missiles as part a new aid package to Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders. &#8220;To hold such as extensive front line, the Ukrainian army needs for example our VAB vehicles: it&#8217;s absolutely essential for troop mobility,&#8221; Sebastien Lecornu told La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[991,992],"class_list":["post-50230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-france-to-provide-armoured-vehicles","tag-missiles-to-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}