For the first time ever, the European Union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons to a country under attack, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, has said, as she announced the bloc’s commitment to supporting the Ukrainian war effort against Russia.
The EU will also shut down its airspace for any and all Russian aircraft and in another unprecedented step ruled it would ban Russian-state backed television channels RT and Sputnik, as well as their subsidiaries, so that the Kremlin media machine ‘will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin’s war and to sow division in our union’
- Russia-Ukraine latest
- Russian airlines to be banned from most European airspace
- Germany to set up €100bn fund to boost its military strength
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Source: The Guardian