The key to Russian President Vladimir PutinRequest peaceThe Western allies stop providing military and intelligent aid to Ukraine, which are quietly ignored by the European Union.

While the United States speaks with Russia and Ukraine, without Europeans, on the table, the 27 -countries bloc is pressure on the steel “porcupine strategy” aimed at building the Ukrainian armed forces and the defense industry in the country, to a quieter deduction.

At the European Union summit on Thursday, German Chancellor Olaf Schuls said it was “the center” that Ukraine will remain an independent democratic country that can continue its journey towards the European Union’s membership and “that it has a strong army of its own after a peace agreement.”

“For us, it will be important to continue to support Ukraine significantly – as the European Union as a whole, as well as allies and friends and as an individual period,” Schulz told reporters in Brussels.

After a few hours of speaking, the Chols counterparts in the European Union – withExcept for HungaryWho opposes the position of “peace through power” of the mass – called on member states “to increase the efforts made to address the urgent military and defense needs in Ukraine.”

You realize Russian deception in the past – “a fewGreen men“Whoever included the Crimea in 2014, or the accumulation of forces in 2021Moscow deniedIt may lead to any invasion – the Europeans are strongly skeptical of Putin’s intentions and whether he will accept any peace conditions.

With the United Kingdom and other partners, some European countries are working on a deterrent powerPolice any peace in the future. At the same time, the best security guarantee in Ukraine, regardless of NATO membership rejected by the United States, is that its army is strong and well provided.

inDefense schemeThe European Commission was revealed on Wednesday, which is planning to meet the security needs of Ukraine, with European Union’s funds to help strengthen the defense industry, which produces weapons and ammunition cheaply and closer to the battlefield.

The document says: “Ukraine is currently the front line of the European defense, as it resists the war of aggression led by the largest individual threat to our common security,” the document says. “The result of that war will be a decisive factor in our collective future for decades to come.”

At the heart of the European Union strategy, there is an commitment to providing air defense systems and missiles-including long-range microscopic warheads. In groups, the two countries will join the equipment and the Ukraine’s voltage fell financially to obtain it.

The drones are a great advantage in the battlefield, and the European Union intends to support the purchase of Ukraine from it and help it build its own production capacity, including through joint projects between European and Ukrainian industries.

The other goal is to provide at least two million rounds of large -caliber artillery shells every year, and to continue the training effort that helped prepare more than 75,000 Ukrainian soldiers so far. On the other hand, the European forces will learn from the experience of the front line of Ukraine.

Ukraine will also be able to participate in the European Union space program, with the possibility of access to the services provided by national governments in the field of global positioning, navigation, monitoring and communications.

Financial, and more than 138 billion euros (150 billion dollars) that were already provided to Ukraine, the government in Kiev will be able to secure cheap loans for defense purposes – as European Union and Norway countries – from Norway – from Norway – can from Norway from NorwayNew boxWith a value of 150 billion euros ($ 162 billion).

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