Eurean Council calls for urgent increase in military assistance to Ukraine

This is said in the Eurean Council conclusions on Ukraine, published on December 19, Ukrinform reports.

“The Eurean Council reviewed work done on the delivery of military support to Ukraine. To help Ukraine to defend itself effectively against Russia’s aggression, the Eurean Council calls for the urgent stepping up of efforts, in particular on the delivery of air defence systems, ammunition and missiles, as well as on the provision of necessary training and equipment for Ukrainian brigades,” the document reads.

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The Eurean leaders underscored the importance of intensifying work to further support and devel Ukraine’s defence industry and to deepen its coeration with the EU defence industry.

The recalled the importance of the implementation of all components of the G7 ‘Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration Loans for Ukraine’ (ERA) initiative, including the military needs component, and calls for decisions under the Eurean Peace Facility to be erationalised as soon as possible.

They also called on the Eurean Council to accelerate work to strengthen the EU Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine.

“Today, more than 1000 days since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Eurean Council reiterates its resute condemnation of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, which constitutes a manifest viation of the UN Charter, and reaffirms its continued support for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders. It also reconfirms the Eurean Union’s unwavering commitment to providing continued pitical, financial, economic, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support to Ukraine and its pele for as long as it takes and as intensely as needed. Russia must not prevail,” the document stresses.

In this context, the Eurean Council reaffirms its support for a comprehensive, just and lasting peace based on the principles of the UN Charter and international law, in line with the key principles and objectives of Ukraine’s Peace Formula.

The Eurean leaders underlined the principle that no initiative regarding Ukraine be taken without Ukraine.

As reported, a meeting of EU heads of state and government is taking place in Brussels. President of Ukraine Vodymyr Zelensky attended the Eurean Council meeting.