Previously, Zelensky asked “the most visible” to see the funds for the purchase of ammunition. It’s too small to purchase 2 million artillery shells.
The leaders of the European Union will give Ukraine 5 billion euros (5.4 billion dollars) to secure ammunition for Ukraine, which was defeated by France and Italy, writes Bloomberg From messages to European diplomats.
At that time, most of the 27 member states, which gathered in Brussels on Thursday, agreed on the vision of extremely important funding for military assistance, France and Italy required for specific financial obligations.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at the summit of leaders via video link, terminally asked to see the amount for the purchase of ammunition “as soon as possible”, hoping for a masquerading night strike by drones.
“It is extremely important that your support for Ukraine does not change, but that your support continues and grows,” Zelensky said. “We especially worry about anti-war defense, military assistance and our defensive resilience.”
Discussions in Brussels on Thursday showed that spending 5 billion euros to purchase 2 million artillery shells would not be an easy task. High-ranking EU foreign policy activist Kaja Kallas said that it is still important for the leaders to sign the most important parts of this plan .
“Since we can’t make a decision on the whole river, let’s take a short term,” Callas told journalists on the cob, describing the contributions as “realistic.”
According to Italian diplomats, Italy and other countries are asking for more technical and financial details and it seems that the initiative is still being worked on. French diplomats said that, regardless of what they share the goals of their efforts, the priority is the implementation of part of the EU loan amounting to 18 billion euros from the package of loans from the Great Bank for Kiev.
- The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that Ukraine is denying access to SAFE, the new EU defense credit program.