{"id":368809,"date":"2024-06-11T12:55:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/06\/11\/von-der-leyen-19-mld-ucraina-zelensky\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T14:50:32","slug":"von-der-leyen-ukraine-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/11\/von-der-leyen-ukraine-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen announces 1.9 bln for Ukraine by the end of the month. But Zelensky insists, “We need Patriots”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Just days after the peace summit in Lucerne, Switzerland, the Ukraine Recovery Conference<\/a>\u00a0is underway in Berlin,\u00a0with German Chancellor Olof Scholz<\/strong> hosting the European Commission outgoing President–and candidate for re-election– Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong> and Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky<\/strong>. The EU leader puts on the table the disbursement of 1.9 billion from the Ukraine Assistance Fund by the end of the month<\/strong> and the release of profits generated from frozen Russian assets by July.<\/p>\n

A total of 3.4 billion euros – proceeds from Russian assets are estimated at 1.5 billion by 2024<\/strong> – in the next month and a half. Von der Leyen also announced the signature of the “first agreements worth 1.4 billion euros with our partner banks to attract investment from the private sector” to reconstruct\u00a0Ukraine. Since February 6<\/a>, when the European Parliament\u00a0and the EU Council agreed on the 50 billion fund for Ukraine, Brussels has sent to Kyiv 6 billion.<\/p>\n

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(L-R) Ukraine’s President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky, German Chancellor\u00a0Olaf Scholz, and EU Commission President\u00a0Ursula von der Leyen (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Resources from the EU Ukraine facility are for\u00a0the country’s recovery, reconstruction, and modernization. They are conditional on\u00a0a series of reforms and a spending plan by the Kyiv government. “Ukraine has fulfilled all the steps that we had set out. And this is why we believe the EU should begin accession talks<\/a> with Ukraine already by the end of this month,” von der Leyen stressed. At the same time, profits from Russian assets will finance 90 percent of Kyiv’s military effort. This\u00a0is what\u00a0interests Zelensky\u00a0as it is a particularly critical time on the battlefield. “We need at least seven Patriot systems<\/strong>,” Zelensky insisted because “air defense is crucial,” and it is “necessary to take away from Russia the advantage it has in\u00a0the air.”<\/p>\n

In Kharkiv, “Russian bombs have come raining from the sky again, hitting apartment buildings and shopping centers,” von der Leyen evoked, and the EU “must provide Ukraine with the means to defend itself.” To remedy the Kremlin’s systematic attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid, von der Leyen listed the nearly 500 million euros<\/strong> “for urgent repairs,” the additional “1,000 generators for urgent power generation,” and the “nearly 8,000 solar panels that are “about to arrive” in Ukraine. But – in Zelensky’s words – it would be more effective to improve air defense and prevent Russian raids from touching Ukrainian soil. German Chancellor Scholz appealed to all other countries supporting Ukraine, asking them for an effort to “strengthen Kyiv’s air defenses.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Also expected by the end of July is the release of profits generated from frozen Russian assets, amounting to 1.5 billion. In Berlin for the Ukraine Recovery Conference, von der Leyen raises the issue of accession negotiations with Kyiv: “The EU must start them by the end of the month.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":368741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[25789,25921,28152],"class_list":["post-368809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ukrainian-en-2","tag-von-der-leyen-en","tag-greenat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368809"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369319,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368809\/revisions\/369319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}