The EU has named the total amount of military assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion of the Russian Federation
This statement was announced today at a briefing by the Supreme Representative of the European Union on Foreign Affairs Josep Borrel. In particular, the politician recalled the creation in 2021 of the European Peace Fund (EPF) - the Intergovernmental and extrabudgetary EU Fund - to support allies with military equipment that was not possible for the EU budget. Its total volume was originally € 5 billion, but now the financial maximum of € 17 billion.
Borrel also noted that the EPF is now the basis of EU military support for Ukraine. "According to today, we have already used 6. 1 billion euros with EPF to stimulate Ukraine's support for EU Member States. In addition, the Ukrainian army received from the European Union military equipment as a whole for 31 billion euros from the beginning of wars," the Chief European Diplomat said .
In addition, Borrel assured that by the summer of this year the European Union will complete the training of 60 thousand Ukrainian soldiers, and also plans to transfer half a million of artillery shells to Ukraine, and by the end of the year, their volume will exceed 1 million. According to the high -ranking official shells under commercial contracts. These efforts are successfully complemented by the initiative proposed by the Czech Republic to purchase ammunition outside the EU.
At the same time, Josep Borrel acknowledged that such assistance volumes are completely insufficient, so the main task today is to increase European capacity and financial capacity to further support Ukraine. We will remind, on March 1 the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmigal stated that during this year Ukraine expects to receive from the European Union 16 billion euros of financial assistance. At the same time, on March 20, the European Commission paid Ukraine the first tranche worth 4.