“The temptations of reconciliation arise again. These ideas were wrong in 2022 and remain wrong now. We must not allow them to determine our policy towards Ukraine,” he wrote in a column for the French magazine L'Obs.
Borrell urged to avoid repeating mistakes.
Earlier, the politician said that it was necessary not to give in to calls for peace in Ukraine and to double assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
According to him, EU countries have often been too slow in supplying the necessary weapons to Ukraine, but now it is important to transfer long-range missiles, air defense systems and other modern systems to Kyiv.
Borrell also noted that European sanctions were powerless against the Russian defense industry; the EU “does not see light at the end of the Ukrainian tunnel.”
The head of the Crimean parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, compared the chief of European diplomacy to a Soviet cartoon character about a brave hare amid his calls to supply long-range missiles to Ukraine.