Josep Borrell announces 500 million euros more for military aid to Ukraine

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The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Policy,

, announced in

that the

is going to allocate another 500 million euros for military aid to Ukraine and that the EU will once again have representation in the Ukrainian capital .

"I am pleased to announce here, in

, that the European Union is going to allocate another 500 million euros from

so that the Ukrainian army obtains weapons to defend its country and its people," said

, who today is visiting Ukraine with the President of the European Commission,

, and the Slovakian Prime Minister, Eduard Heger.

This new allocation "is added to the package of one billion euros, without precedent, that we released since the beginning of the

. Our support now amounts to 1,500 million euros" for weapons, said the head of European diplomacy.

The Spanish politician also announced that "the EU returns to

."

"I mean literally: our Head of Delegation has returned to kyiv, so that we can work together even more directly and closely."

Borrell

and

will have the opportunity to explain these two developments to the Ukrainian president,

, and several members of his government with whom they will meet on the same day that the European Union plans to publish the fifth round of sanctions in its Official Gazette against Russia, which includes an embargo on its coal, among many other sectoral and individual restrictions.

"We continue to tighten sanctions against the regimes in

and

to cripple the

's ability to continue aggression," said

, who has spoken out in favor of expanding those restrictions on Russian oil, as has

.

In this sense,

anticipated that next Monday the Foreign Council, which he chairs, will have "on the table" the study of eventual sanctions on Russian oil.

"I think an oil (embargo) has to be done faster. It's much easier with oil than with gas. With gas, there are certainly short-term limitations," he told reporters.

Dependence on

"is not just a German problem, because the German economy is very interconnected with the European economy and something that happens in one country has immediate effects on the others. People do not take into account how interconnected we are. Anything that damages the economy of a country, the others will pay the collateral effects",

warned .

The high representative emphasized that the oil and gas markets "are very sensitive and anticipatory signals cannot be sent because prices are moving and we are in a difficult situation with the (increase) in energy prices in everyone".

This

from the EU to

for the

comes after the discovery of massacres of civilians in towns around

, such as

.

In this sense,

recalled that there is an investigation initiated by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and also the Investigation Commission of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is acting in this regard, which have "all our support," he said. .

He specified that the EU civilian advisory mission will support

providing training and donating equipment to ensure the safety of the investigation and the collection of evidence on the ground.

In addition, he added that the EU is launching a specific project of

by ensuring extensive data collection on missing persons.

"The EU will provide all the necessary technical and financial support to bring justice to the victims and ensure that those responsible are held accountable," stressed Borrell, since "there can be no impunity."

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