EU signs security deal with Ukraine
EU and Ukraine sign security deal, thus establishing Ukraine as both a de-facto EU and a NATO member. Second, the deal ensures Europe’s Forever War with Russia will not end.
RT World News • June 28, 2024 // Yahoo News
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a security pact with the European Union providing long-term assurances, at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday.
Zelensky signed the accord in a ceremony along with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
The deal intends to show the EU’s long-term support for Kiev as the conflict with Moscow shows no sign of ending soon. Ukraine has “no immediate prospect” of joining either the EU or NATO, Reuters said.
“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.”
According to the agreement, it obligates the bloc to help Kiev in nine areas of security and defense policy, from weapons deliveries and training of the Ukrainian military, to demining and “defense industry cooperation.”
Zelensky himself has signed it in Brussels on Thursday, while making an unannounced visit to the summit of EU member state leaders.
The security agreement isn’t quite a mutual defense pact, but a pledge that the EU will provide Ukraine with weapons and other aid against “future invasion,” according to anonymous officials who spoke to Reuters. In the event of “future aggression,” the deal obligates the EU and Ukraine to consult within 24 hours and “swiftly determine” their next steps.
It does not specify the value or quantity of future military aid, beyond acknowledging the bloc’s agreement to fund the Ukrainian military to the tune of €5 billion this year, while “further comparable annual increases could be envisaged until 2027.”
Similar security treaties with Kiev have already been made by the US, UK, France, and Germany. Western powers have sought to formalize the ad-hoc funding to Kiev in case of election upsets later this year.
The EU agreement’s commitments will remain in effect “as Ukraine pursues its European path” and will be reviewed within ten years, Reuters said. The bloc formally opened negotiations for Ukraine’s eventual membership on Tuesday, with the EU ambassador in Kiev speculating that the process could be complete by 2030.
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