Norway's government said Tuesday it was pledging an additional 2.5 billion kroner ($240 million, €218 million) of military aid to Ukraine.

This brings Oslo's total for Kyiv to 10 billion kroner for the year.

"The defensive war being waged by Ukraine (...) is being waged now. It is now that is really necessary," Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Gahr Store told reporters on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Lithuania.