The European Union will double military aid to Ukraine with another 40,000 million dollars (35,000 million euros) if the president of the United States, Donald Trump, fails to persuade his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to achieve an agreement … Let the war end, as announced by the defense commissioner, Andrius Kubilius.
In addition, the European Commission will present on Tuesday the plan to ban all Russian gas imports at the end of 2027, which would end the supplies that historically had become the largest energy supplier throughout the EU.
The two initiatives constitute the greatest attempt by Brussels of not being outside the evolution of the events that have so far managed unilaterally from Washington, and that could reach a dead end in a matter of weeks judging by the announcements of the American president himself. On the one hand, The EU maintains its traditional unrestricted support position to Ukraine And, on the other, it exerts pressure on Putin in case these negotiations are prolonged.
This Tuesday is expected to approve in its weekly meeting a road map for the gradual elimination of gas ties that still persist with Moscow, and that it intends to prevent new contracts from being signed and that existing ones are expired so that at the end of 2027 the complete disconnection has occurred. From what is known, that plan does not foresee direct sanctions for breach, but it is a very evident political message for the Kremlin.
In the military aspect, Kubilius’s message has been very evident. «If Trump does not convince Putin to make peace, We could present more convincing arguments in favor of peace Quickly, considerably increasing our military support to Ukraine. Until now, the EU and the US have provided around 40,000 million euros (35,000 million euros) per year in military aid to Ukraine. But we can spend that same amount on acquiring modern weapons in Ukraine, which would cost approximately half that manufactured in the EU or USA. This would effectively double the volume of weapons that Ukraine receives for the same 40,000 million euros and the real value of our support would amount to 80,000 million ».
