BRUSSELS, Dec 15 (The African Portal) – The EU must take “very important” decisions on funding Ukraine at a crunch summit this week, said EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Monday, adding that talks over using frozen Russian assets were getting harder.
“We are not there yet, and it is increasingly difficult, but we’re doing the work and we still have some days,” Kallas added.
Meanwhile, the European Union is expected to agree on broadening its sanctions on Belarus’ regime to include hybrid activity against the bloc, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said.
Lithuania last week declared a state of emergency and asked parliament to authorise military support for police and border guards after a wave of smuggler balloons from Belarus repeatedly disrupted air traffic in recent months.
“I’m really looking forward into expanding the sanctions regime on on Belarus if those hybrid activities continue against us,” Budrys said before a meeting of foreign affairs ministers from EU countries in Brussels.
Credit: France24
