Speaking in Paris, he announced that European leaders had decided to form a coalition in order to provide Ukraine with bombs and medium- and long-range missiles.
There was “no consensus,” he continued, about the deployment of Western forces in Ukraine, but “nothing should be excluded.”
Russia’s military has recently advanced into Ukraine, a country severely lacking in weapons.
For Kyiv to be able to combat Russia—a far larger military force with a plethora of artillery ammunition—it is crucially dependent on contemporary armory supplies from its Western friends, especially the US.
But the House of Representatives will have a difficult time approving a much-needed $95 billion (£75 billion) aid package from the US, which includes $61 billion for Ukraine.
The defense minister of Ukraine warned over the weekend that half of all Western help to Kyiv had been delayed, sacrificing lives and land in the process.
Now in its third year, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine shows no signs of abating. This is the largest European conflict since World War Two.
