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Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
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Originally Posted by Pierre
The EU is providing and coordinating all that, or EU member states are?
Economic sanctions, yes I can see the EU role in that. But not much else.
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The EU.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/202...ne_818976.html
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European Union foreign ministers agreed to send 450 million euros ($500 million) in military aid to Ukraine for lethal weapons, according to Josep Borrell, the bloc’s foreign policy chief.
The aid will be financed by the EU’s European Peace Facility and will see the bloc supply arms to a country at war for the first time in its history. Another 50 million euros will be provided for non-lethal purposes, Borrell said at a press conference in Brussels Sunday.
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https://www.euractiv.com/section/eur...ns-to-ukraine/
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In a ‘watershed moment’ for its defence policy, the EU on Sunday (27 February) agreed to unblock some €500 million for members states to buy arms for Ukraine’s armed forces, hoping to stop Russia’s invasion.
“Another taboo has fallen these days – the taboo that the EU cannot use its resources to provide arms to a country that is being aggressed by another,” EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell said as EU foreign ministers met to green-light the unprecedented step.
EU treaties prohibit the bloc from using its regular multiannual budget to fund operations with military or defence implications.
That is why, under the unveiled plans, the EU will use an off-budget so-called ‘European Peace Facility’ (EPF) financing instrument with a ceiling of €5 billion that can be used to provide military aid.
The only recently created intergovernmental fund had opened the door for the bloc to deliver military aid to partner countries and finance the deployment of its military missions abroad.
Borrell said the EU had agreed “to provide arms — lethal arms, lethal assistance — to the Ukrainian army for a value of €450 million support package and €50 million more for the non-lethal supplies – fuel and protective equipment.”
The EPF would be used to coordinate shipments and other logistics.
EU defence ministers will meet virtually on Monday (28 January) to iron out the technical details of the mechanism.
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