The EU is “ready to take over” to lead military support to Ukraine “if the United States does not want to do it”, declared Thursday the head of EU diplomacy Kaja Kallas at eleven days of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Ms Kallas at the same time said she was “sure” that Washington would “continue its support for Ukraine”. “Whoever is the leader of the United States, I think it is not in America’s interest for Russia to be the strongest power in the world,” she declared, before a meeting of the “contact group” of Kiev partners in Germany.
Under President Joe Biden, the United States has been kyiv’s biggest supporter in its defense against the Russian invasion, providing military aid worth more than $65 billion (€63 billion). since February 2022.
Insufficient, however, to give a decisive advantage to Ukraine, which is struggling to repel the Russian army, particularly in the eastern part of the country.
-And Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration makes Ukraine fear a drastic reduction in support from the United States and pressure from the elected American president for kyiv to make concessions to Vladimir Putin.
The EU is “ready to take over” to lead military support to Ukraine “if the United States does not want to do it”, said the head of EU diplomacy Kaja Kallas on Thursday eleven days of the inauguration of Donald Trump. Ms. Kallas at the same time said she was “sure” that Washington would “continue its support for Ukraine”. “What…
