According to them, European officials are considering various options, but this is gaining more and more support due to the deficit of their own weapons in the EU and the inability to produce it in the necessary quantities. At the same time, Europe hopes that The United States will maintain an exchange of intelligence with Ukraine. This US support helps to destroy goals and warn against Russian attacks.
According to sources Further armament of Ukraine will help stop the offensive of the Russian army, which is already gathering troops on the border with the Kharkov region, and strengthen the pressure of President Vladimir Putin to end the war.
However, such a step of Europe will take the American leader Donald Trump before choosing: either provide the USA with great income from arms contracts, or give up deliveries so as not to set Putin against himself. Trump still claims that he wants to conclude a contract and so far he has not realized his threats regarding new sanctions against Russia. At the same time, he failed to get the consent from Putin for a 30-day ceasefire.
Trump threatens to leave the negotiations
On May 20, Trump said that he would “withdraw” if sufficient progress is not achieved in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. – This is not my war. I mean that we got into something that we should not be entangled in … This is a European situation. It should remain European – he said.
At the beginning of the month, the European Commission announced that the EU has spent a total of EUR 150 billion (approx. PLN 637 billion) to help Kiev, of which 50 billion euros (approx. 212 billion PLN) was allocated to weapons supply. On May 22, the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Sergei Marczenko called on European countries to consider the possibility of direct financing for the armed forces of Ukraine from a small percentage of national GDP. “These expenses may be evenly distributed between countries ready to proceed to the initiative and included in their defense obligations towards NATO,” he said. In return, Marczenko proposed to include the Ukrainian army in the general European defense system.
Earlier, EU countries agreed to create a Security Action for Europe (SAFE) fund in the amount of EUR 150 billion (approx. PLN 637 billion) to strengthen European defense.
It is to be powered by joint loans, and also serve to grant loans to members of the community, as well as a number of other countries – in the first place Ukraine – for the purposes of rearming. The EU also plans to invest EUR 1 billion (approx. PLN 4 billion 200 million) in the Ukrainian military industry. The first contracts in this respect have already been signed.
