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Ukraine's Zelenskyy signs security pact with EU during Brussels visit
27.06.2024 - 16:03 / euronews.com
The European Union on Thursday signed a security agreement with Ukraine, pledging to continue providing the war-torn country with military, financial, diplomatic and humanitarian support over the long term.
"I would also like to thank you for the security agreement," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told EU leaders gathered in Brussels for a summit.
"I invite everyone in Europe who is still on the sideline of the security war to join us," he added.
On the EU side, the agreement was signed by European Council President Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the Commission.
Michel said in an X post shortly after the signing ceremony that "these commitments will help Ukraine defend itself, resist destabilisation, and deter future acts of aggression" and that they form "more concrete proof of the EU’s unshakeable resolve to support Ukraine for the long haul."
Zelenskyy also signed bilateral security agreements with Lithuania and Estonia, adding to those he has already struck with other EU member states including France and Germany.
Under the EU-Ukraine agreement, the bloc pledges to provide "predictable, long-term and sustainable support for Ukraine’s security and defence", to continue training Ukrainian security and military forces, to boost cooperation between Ukrainian and European defence industries, and to strengthen cooperation to counter hybrid and cyber threats as well as foreign information manipulation and interference.
One key pledge is to "speed up and intensify the delivery of all necessary military assistance". But the 12-page document only mentions funding for 2024 through the Ukraine Assistance Fund - worth €5 billion - with no further commitments for following years.
It only notes that "further comparable annual increases could be envisaged until 2027, based on Ukrainian needs and subject to political guidance by the Council."
So-called "wider security commitments" also plan for EU support to Ukraine's accession and reform process, predictable financial support for reconstruction and modernisation, gradual integration in the single market, "continued readiness" to impose sanctions on Russia, and to "take the work forward towards the use of the revenues from Russia's immobilised assets to support Ukraine".
Zelenskyy also used his time with EU leaders to reiterate calls for more military assistance, especially air defence systems, which he said were needed "urgently on the battlefield".
"Artillery and shells and fulfilment of every promise is important not only in terms of protecting lives, but also to destroy the Russian illusion that they will achieve something by war," he also said.
"We must protect Kharkiv and every other city in Ukraine from Russian guided bombs. That
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