“The EU and its member states have provided unprecedented economic, humanitarian and military support, supplying Ukraine with almost €30 billion in ammunition and weapons and training almost 40,000 Ukrainian soldiers on EU territory,” he wrote in an article for the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
The text is provided by TASS.
At the same time, the European Union has accumulated a debt to member countries for the transfer of weapons to Ukraine in the amount of €7.16 billion.
The publication added that the dependence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Western weapons is becoming increasingly acute.
Earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported that the EU was considering the possibility of creating a military aid fund for Kyiv to circumvent the veto imposed by Budapest.
The fund will allocate up to €5 billion per year from 2024 to 2027.