The European Union will support the reconstruction of Ukraine with 20 billion euros and will strengthen military support and sanctions against Moscow, the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs announced this Monday, after an informal meeting in Kiev.
The heads of diplomacy of the 27 members of the European bloc met in an informal meeting prepared in secret in the Ukrainian capital, during which, according to João Gomes Cravinho, there was “a very strong political consensus on the need to support Ukraine and everything the world”. the process necessary to withdraw Russian forces from the territory of Ukraine so that there can be peace.
Speaking to RTP at the end of the meeting, the Portuguese official stated that the representatives of EU diplomacy spoke of “long-term financial support.”
“We are developing work here, a fund in the order of 20 billion euros, five billion euros a year for four years, to support the reconstruction of Ukraine,” said Gomes Cravinho.
Source: TSF
