"We give #Ukraine just enough to hold, and sometimes even less, while #Russia has put its entire economy on a wartime footing and counts with the unconditional backing of #North_Korea and #Iran" - #Josep_Borrell, #EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs.

Mr. #Borrell wrote that in his blog post about his recent visit to #Kyiv.

📷: #Josep_Borrell in a shelter during an air raid alert in #Kyiv

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/last-night-train-kyiv_en

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

On August 26, following a massive #Russian attack on #Ukraine, #EU diplomacy chief #Josep_Borrell once again urged for the removal of restrictions on the use of Western weapons for strikes on #Russian military targets.

#Borrell stressed that lifting these restrictions, in line with international law, would enhance #Ukraine's self-defense, safeguard lives, and reduce destruction across the country.

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

"#EU to blank #orban?" 😂 🤣 😆

#Hungary, who is now chairing the #EU council, plans to host a foreign affairs summit in #Budapest on August 28-29.

However, after #Viktor_Orban’s meetings with #Putin and #Xi_Jinping, which apparently weren't coordinated with the rest of the #EU, #Josep_Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has scheduled a foreign affairs council for the foreign ministers at the same time as #Hungary's forum,

The #G7 is discussing the possibility of using not only the income from frozen #Russian assets but also the assets themselves to help #Ukraine, said #Josep_Borrell, head of #EU diplomacy

"There is a discussion that instead of using the income from these assets every year, we could use these assets themselves to have a larger amount through the financial mechanism and have tomorrow's income today.

“It would be unthinkable that we could not provide #Ukraine with seven #Patriot batteries , given that Western armies have about a hundred of them” - #Josep_Borrell

The head of European diplomacy noted that #Russia could fight a long war of attrition, creating the impression that it had won it when, in fact, it was losing it.

#Borrell also called for more attention to be paid not only to plans for the restoration of #Ukraine in the future but also to preventing its destruction now.

🇪🇺 The European Commission paid #Ukraine the first tranche of 50 billion euros in aid

“Today we made the first disbursement of €4.5 billion from the €50 billion #Ukraine Relief Fund to support the recovery, reconstruction, and modernization of #Ukraine,” said #EU diplomacy chief #Josep_Borrell

This was also announced by the President of the European Commission #Ursula_von_der_Leyen on the social network X (formerly Twitter)

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

"Face the consequences? When?"

"The political leadership of the #Russian_Federation and those involved in organizing the 'elections' in the occupied territory of #Ukraine will face the consequences of their illegal actions," stated the head of European diplomacy, #Josep_Borrell.

"The #EU emphasizes that it does not recognize and will never recognize either the holding of the so-called 'elections' in these territories of #Ukraine or their results.

This is a farce that can not be called legal: #Europe and the #USA about Putin’s “elections”

🔹The head of European diplomacy, #Josep_Borrell, said that the “elections” in #Russia were not free and fair.

🔹According to #Lithuanian Foreign Minister #Gabrielius_Landsbergis, the voting that took place is a “tragic farce.”

🔹#German Foreign Minister #Annalena_Bärbock said that #Germany condemns “elections without choice” in the #Russian_Federation.

"Will #orban get the message?"

No one is keeping #Hungary in the #EU by force: #Borrell responded to #Orban

“To be honest, I don’t see any similarities between the #Soviet occupation of #Budapest and what is happening in #Berlamon (the headquarters of the European Commission). I didn't see a single tank there. Nobody obliges #Hungary to be a member of the #EU,” emphasized the head of European diplomacy, #Josep_Borrell.