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Russia's war on Ukraine: The EU's financing of military assistance to Ukraine

Published: April 1, 2022, 7 a.m.

b'In an unprecedented and unanimous reaction to the Russian war on Ukraine that began on 24 February 2022, the EU swiftly decided to provide \\u20ac500 million from the European Peace Facility to fund and coordinate EU military assistance and to deliver military (including lethal) equipment to Ukraine. The Council had already adopted an assistance measure of \\u20ac31 million for non-lethal assistance to Ukraine on 2 December 2021. For the first time in its history, the EU is now using a dedicated, although off-budget, tool to finance \\u2013 but not to deliver, with that responsibility falling on Member States alone \\u2013 lethal military equipment for a third country.

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