The bloc’s top diplomat has proposed adding an additional 500 million euros ($544 million) to Ukraine under the "European Peace Facility," said Charles Michel, President of the European Council, APA reports citing Sacramento Bee.
The EU has previously agreed to spend 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) on military supplies for Ukrainian forces in an unprecedented step of collectively supplying weapons to a country under attack. EU countries and NATO have so far excluded the option of a direct military intervention in Ukraine.
“Once swiftly approved this will bring to 1.5 billion the EU support already provided for military equipment for Ukraine,” Michel said in a message posted on Twitter in which he thanked EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell Josep Borrell.
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