EU Scraps Huge Military Aid Package For Ukraine

The European Union has decided to scrap its plans to send 40 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine.

The latest move took place on Thursday as European leaders met at a summit that appeared to be influenced by President Donald Trump’s work toward a ceasefire agreement

Their decision to drop the massive funding package happened after Trump’s telephone call with Ukrainian Dictator Vladimir Zelensky on Wednesday.

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The EU have not completely divorce Ukraine and will still be sending a smaller military aid package to Kiev.

InfoWars reports: Named after the E.U.’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, the ‘Kallas plan’ sought to double the union’s military aid to an ambitious 40 billion euros in 2025. It included the purchase of two million artillery rounds for 5 billion euros, an air defense systems, missiles, drones, fighter jets and other lethal and non-lethal equipment valued at 35 billion euros. These ‘gifts’ to Ukraine would have all been delivered by the end of the year.

“…large southern European countries opposed Kallas’ proposal that each member state should contribute ‘their fair share’ relative to GDP. They asked Brussels to find other ways, possibly by incorporating the remaining profits generated by Russia’s frozen assets,” The European Conservative said Friday.

The plan did see significant support from a number of northern E.U. member states however it lacked support from many southern and central member states. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary and Slovakia opposed the 40 billion euro amount.

“France, Italy and Spain—boasting the largest European economies after Germany—all gave economic and budgetary reasons for not backing the plan this time. They also called for caution against military escalation and suggested it would be a good idea to see how the ongoing U.S.-led peace process turns out,” The European Conservative said.

The disagreements won out, first with the plan being delayed and then eventually canceled all together. A smaller military aid package will still be delivered to Kiev, however.

“…the latest version of the plan will focus solely on delivering the two million artillery rounds this year, which in itself could prove tricky, given that the E.U. failed spectacularly on its previous pledge of delivering half of that amount in 2023,” The European Conservative said.

Interestingly, the final decision to drop the massive funding package happened after President Donald Trump’s telephone call with Ukrainian Dictator Vladimir Zelensky on Wednesday. That call echoed the sentiment expressed in Trump’s previous call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in which the two leaders discussed their shared hopes and goals for a ceasefire agreement. Trump himself discussed the ceasefire as a done-deal after the call with Moscow, however the day after the call with Kiev, Ukrainian drone stuck a Russian nuclear bomb base in a massive escalation to the conflict.

“It seems E.U. countries are starting to realize that prolonging the war with endless weapon deliveries may not be the best way forward and that, despite all their criticism, Trump’s diplomatic approach is delivering better than they had expected. The next step would be to drop the virtue signaling and start working with the U.S. to reach peace as soon as possible, but that may be a big ask from a Brussels that prefers to deny reality,” The European Conservative said.