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The Ukrainian Foreign Minister will not finally go to Brussels for the Foreign Affairs Council

MADRID, 20 Feb.

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The Ukrainian Foreign Minister will not finally go to Brussels for the Foreign Affairs Council

MADRID, 20 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dimitro Kuleba, will not finally participate this Monday in the meeting to be held in Brussels by his European Union (EU) counterparts, in which the bloc will finalize the details of the tenth package of sanctions against Russia that the bloc It will be approved coinciding with the anniversary of the invasion, on February 24.

Kuleba himself has confirmed on his account on the social network Twitter that "he will not be able to join in person" to the meeting, while applauding Estonia's proposal for a joint delivery of arms and ammunition to Kiev to deal with the invasion. Russian. "We strongly support the initiative and ask that it be put into operation," he said.

The idea of ​​applying a model of joint purchases of ammunition through the European Peace Facility, the fund with which the EU has paid for the shipment of arms to Ukraine, was raised by the Estonian Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, who at the The last European summit proposed following the scheme for the acquisition of vaccines during the pandemic so that the Twenty-seven use their joint capacity to provide ammunition quickly and sustainably to the Ukrainian Army.

Likewise, European diplomatic sources have indicated to Europa Press that "Kuleba has had to postpone his trip to Brussels and cancel his participation in the Foreign Affairs Council due to other very urgent commitments", without further details having been released for the moment.