“Europe must show strength because Russia only perceives power as an argument. It is time not to be separated, not to be fragmented, but to be a whole.” For the third time since the outbreak of the war the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has intervened by videoconference before the heads of state and government of the EU. A ten-minute speech in which he has appealed to the unity of the Twenty-Seven on the sixth sanctions packageincluding the effective embargo on oil from Russia, and in which he has accused Moscow of creating the conditions to keep the gas prices and incidentally the internal protests in Europe.
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The message of the Ukrainian leader, when 96 days of war are celebrated in his country, has sounded loud and clear: put aside the internal disputes because the only thing they achieve is to further encourage the Kremlin to exercise more pressure on Europe. “Russia wants to see at these meetings not a European Council, and not a European Union, but 27 separate, fragmented states & rdquor ;, she recalled. The Ukrainian leader has also explained that the Russian military offensive continues to wreak havoc and has called for an immediate solution to avoid a food crisis, although he has warned that “if Russia retains the ability to intercept ships with Ukrainian agricultural products there will be no peaceful trade or agricultural production safe & rdquor ;.
In addition to Zelenski, the Twenty-seven will also listen this Friday, during the second day of the summit, to the current president of the African Union and President of Senegal, macky sall, with whom they will talk about food safety. In addition, the intention of the Twenty-seven is to commit to accelerating work on “the solidarity runners& rdquor ;, proposed by Brussels to facilitate agricultural exports from Ukraine, and endorse the macro-financial assistance of 9,000 million to financially support Ukraine. The agenda of the extraordinary European Council also includes a new debate on the security and defense policy.