According to the head of the foreign Policy service of the European Union, this is evidenced by the supply of lethal military equipment to Kiev in 2022VIENNA, March 31.
/tass/. The European Union is ready to "break the taboo" if necessary, as evidenced by the supply of lethal military equipment to Ukraine last year. The head of the EU foreign policy service, Josep Borrel, wrote about this in a comment for the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, published on Friday.
Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, "the EU has shown that it knows what is at stake. And that he is ready to break the taboo when necessary," the diplomat noted. "A year ago, for the first time, we financed the supply of lethal military equipment" to Ukraine, Borrel wrote.
He added that last autumn, Ukrainian soldiers "under the flag of the EU" began to undergo training on European territory. By the end of 2023, the European Union plans to train about 30 thousand military personnel. Now the countries of the association are working on the supply of ammunition for Kiev.
On March 20, the EU Council approved the so-called Borrel Plan, which provides for the allocation of €2 billion from the European Peace Fund for the supply of 1 million ammunition to Ukraine within 12 months and doubling this amount within two years thanks to joint orders of 155 mm shells by EU countries. In addition, the plan provides for the militarization of European industry, including the creation of new factories for the production of ammunition and weapons.
