EU countries oppose Callas' proposal for new aid package for Ukraine

Some European Union (EU) countries did not support the transfer of a new military aid package to Ukraine proposed by European diplomacy chief Kaja Kallas. They do not want to spend funds from their national budgets on it. This was reported by the European edition of Politico on February 25.

According to an unnamed European diplomat, discontent has arisen due to the "lack of equality and solidarity" among the EU countries supporting Ukraine. They expect Brussels to find other approaches to assisting Kiev, such as issuing special Eurobonds or showing "financial flexibility", for example, excluding defense spending from the calculation of budget deficits, the publication said.

Two other European diplomats emphasized that Germany and France also did not support Kallas's initiative, as they had already participated in negotiations on providing security guarantees to Ukraine while other European states "were less active".

EU leaders plan to determine the amount of new military aid to Ukraine at an emergency summit on March 6. Kallas emphasized that she was "optimistic" about EU leaders' approval of the new aid. However, diplomats are already saying that no concrete decisions on aid to Kiev will be made at the summit, according to Politico.

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European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen announced a new €3.5 billion EU financial aid package for Ukraine during her visit to Kiev on February 24. According to her, the Kiev regime will receive the money as early as March.

On the same day, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on 24 February that the EU countries wanted to provide Kiev with a military aid package consisting of €20-40bn and an "unimaginable" number of weapons.