A fundraising campaign by NGOs and national radio LRT has collected 14 million euros in Lithuania to purchase multi-purpose tactical surveillance radars to monitor Ukraine’s airspace, Report informs via LRT.
The announcement was made on Saturday after midnight, at the end of a benefit concert that concluded the nearly month-long Radarom! campaign.
“The unity of business companies and people was incredible,” said Andrius Tapinas, one of the hosts of the event and a co-organiser of the campaign.
“Now is the time that we can protect our freedom forever,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a televised message on Friday