European Union promises to toughen sanctions on Russia after offensive in Ukraine

The European Union pledged today to toughen sanctions against Russia for his war against Ukraine and to increase its economic aid to kyiv through a solidarity fund, as agreed at the virtual meeting of world leaders convened this Tuesday by the president of USA, Joe Biden.

This was expressed by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen in a message shared on the social network Twitter in which he thanked the US president for organizing the “important” meeting.

“We will further tighten our sanctions against Russia and increase our financial and security assistance to Ukraine,” wrote the head of the Community Executive.

For his part, the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, explained that the G7 powers coordinated in their meeting the response to Moscow for the attacks on Ukraine and discussed “the need for more humanitarian, financial and military aid”.

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“The EU will develop a Solidarity Fund for Ukraine to give immediate support and for the reconstruction of a democratic Ukraine,” the former Belgian Prime Minister remarked.

The two messages from both EU leaders were released after the videoconference meeting called by Biden to discuss the support of world powers for Ukraine in the context of the Russian invasion.

In addition to Von der Leyen and Michel, the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, of Canada, Justin Trudeau, of France, Emmanuel Macron, of Germany, Olaf Scholz, of Italy, Mario Draghi, and of Japan participated in the virtual meeting. , Fumio Kishida, and the presidents of Poland, Andrzej Duda, and Romania, Klaus Iohannis. (I)