Brussels, 11 April 2022 – A harsh and blunt attack on Josep Borrell today against Russia, while theUkraine puts up a strenuous resistance. It is Russia’s faultnot penalties, if you are creating one food crisisespecially in Africa, more sensitive to price fluctuations. The Russia which “does not make a war, but criminal activity” and causes hunger. The high representative for EU foreign policy today at a press conference, at the end of the Foreign Affairs Council.
“Dozens of Ukrainian ships cannot leave ports, Russian troops bomb silos: the Russian army is creating the food shortagenot sanctions “.
“Russia engages in criminal activity”
“We must continue to help Ukraine by all means and the more atrocities there are the more we see how Putin’s Russia wages war “because the Russian army” is attacking the civilian population indiscriminately “and” this is not how war is made, this is just activity criminal has no other names “.” I was returning from Kiev when we learned of the bombing of a station full of civilians with dozens of dead and hundreds of injured “, recalled Borrell, arguing that such incidents make it even more urgent” to help Ukraine “.
More weapons for Ukraine from the eu
The increase in European arms supplies to Kiev from one billion to one and a half billion euros as part of the European Peace Facility (Epf), it will lead to a proportional increase in the Italian contribution to this operation: from approximately 125 to 187 million euros. This was revealed by the Milex observatory. For Italy, the contribution rate to the EPF is approximately 12.5%. In his press conference today, the High Representative for EU politics Josep Borrell, explained that the increase will have to be ratified by some national parliaments: “not by the Italian one – points out Milex – which with the Ukrainian decree passed to the Chambers has given the green light to send weapons until the end of the year without spending limits “.
Bulgaria and Hungary finance armaments with the EU
“Bulgaria and Hungary participate in the financing of the armaments that the European Union, through the Member States, provides to Ukraine. It is not true that they do not participate. If they did not participate, the supply would not be possible because these decisions are adopted unanimously”. Borrell said. “Hungary and Bulgaria, and all the others, were unanimous. Otherwise it would not have been possible. They finance this activity, they pay their own contribution to achieve 1.5 billion euros in arms. It is quite another thing to say that Hungary, as far as I know, does not allow arms and troops to pass through its territory. But this is something else. But she participates financially in the arming of Ukraine “, she added.
“Great failure of the Russian army in Kiev”
For the Russian army, the failure to take Kiev was “a great failure. For them it was impossible to take the city: I’ve been there, I saw the carcasses of Russian tanks “. The Russian forces, he continues, have left behind “the horror: civilians killed, cities destroyed, indiscriminate bombing. Mariupol is a martyr city”, but now a battle is being prepared “on the eastern front and we are ready to support Ukraine. so that he can face it “, he concludes.
Russian oil embargo on standby
During the foreign affairs council, the 27 addressed the issue of energy dependence on Russia, including a possible embargo on oil, without reaching any decision. “It’s easy for anyone who isn’t addicted to Russian gas to say let’s not use it,” Borrell said. The invasion of Ukraine, he added, caused an “asymmetric shock” since the eastern countries are sensitive to the “refugee” issue while the central ones to the “energy” issue. The goal, he said, is to achieve “European energy autonomy” and this means “renewables and hydrogen”.
Lavrov: “Now the rules of the game are changing”
“The statements of EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell regarding Ukraine significantly change the rules of the game.” This is said by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, on the Rossiya-24 TV channel, filmed by Interfax. “I have to say that what Borrell said in this aggressive and unprecedented context really changes the rules of the game significantly,” says Lavrov. Borrell said Ukraine “will win the war on the battlefield.”