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European Union failure to agree on new military aid to Ukraine

after Tuesday’s EU defense ministers’ meeting, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the overwhelming majority of member states had backed a proposal to increase the European Peace Facility budget by 3.5 billion euros (3.77 billion U.S. dollars), although he stressed that not all of it will be used to assist Ukraine. Borrell said EU countries had already provided Ukraine with 220,000 artillery shells and 1,300 missiles since March. These alone were worth 800 million euros and the EU was on track to provide 1 billion euros worth of ammunition. Borrell welcomed the decision to initiate training programs for Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets. He said the training created a positive momentum that will eventually lead to the deployment of these jets in Ukraine. Why do you think that the bloc is not ready to give out all the aid package to Ukraine ?

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