G7 foreign ministers have said they will support Ukraine ‘until victory’ against Russia, while the European Union (EU) has pledged an additional € 500m in military aid to Kyiv.
We will continue to support Ukraine’s fight for its sovereignty over time until Ukraine winslaunched the head of French diplomacy Jean-Yves Le Drian, on the sideline of a meeting with his G7 counterparts in Wangels in northern Germany.
We are not at war with Russia, Russia is at war with Ukraine: there is an aggressor and it is attacked and we support the attacked.he pointed out.
The head of British diplomacy, Liz Truss, for her part pleaded in favor of increasing military aid for Ukraine and new sanctions against Russia.
He also announced that the United Kingdom would apply new sanctions against 12 relatives and financiers of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Targets include his ex -wife, Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, and Alina Kabaeva, a former Olympic gymnast. who is now Putin’s notorious girlfriendsays a press release.
We expose and target the occult network that supports Putin’s luxurious lifestyle and restricts the basement to his inner circleBritish Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement.
We will continue to impose sanctions on all those who helped and supported Putin’s aggression until Ukraine prevailed.he added.
EU promised 500 million, kyiv wants oil embargo
The ministers of the richest G7 countries (Germany, France, Italy, the United States, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom) are meeting until Saturday in Germany to determine their support for kyiv. They were accompanied by their Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, and Moldovan, Nicu Popescu. The head of European Union diplomacy, Josep Borrell, was also on site.
The latter announced additional military assistance of 500 million euros to Ukraine, which brought in 2 billion EU funding to support the Ukrainian military effort since Russia’s offensive began on 24 February.
Borrell also said he hopes the 27-member European bloc will reach an agreement on a Russian oil embargo in the coming days.
According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, the absence of the oil embargo in the next set of sanctions against Moscow will be a break in European unity in its support for kyiv.
” If this package is adopted without an oil embargo, I believe President Putin will be able to celebrate because this is the first time that the unity of the European Union will be broken because of the position of one country, Hungary. “
Hungary, which relies heavily on Russia for its energy supply, recently blocked Russia’s proposed European embargo on oil. Its Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, described any attempt in this direction as red line dont cross.
Dmytro Kouleba also asked the industrialized G7 countries to confiscate Russia’s assets to be used for Ukraine’s reconstruction.
Today, I call on the G7 States to adopt legislation and put in place all necessary procedures to seize Russia’s assets and hand them over to Ukraine for the country’s reconstruction..
EU like a waraccording to Russia
The head of Russia’s diplomacy denounced this new European support for Ukraine.
The EU has gone from a constructive economic platform, as it was created, to an aggressive and quarrelsome player that is already showing its ambitions far beyond the continent of Europe.said Sergei Lavrov at a news conference from Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
He accused the Europeans of being in a hurry exactly on the NATO path [Organisation du traité de l’Atlantique Nord] has already been tracked, thus confirming the trend toward merging with the North Atlantic Alliance and, in fact, will serve as an appendix in NATO, Mr. Lavrov added.
Because of this, he held on to it Kyiv’s desire to become a member of the European Union is not small.
Source: Radio-Canada
