The European Union announced Sunday it will send weapons, including fighter planes, to Ukraine as the Eastern European nation battles an all-out invasion from neighboring Russia.
The 27-member European bloc had already closed its airspace to Russian planes and barred two Kremlin-controlled media outlets, but the plans to send weapons directly through Brussels is a first.“This is a watershed moment,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said."The European Union steps up once more its support for Ukraine and the sanctions against the aggressor that is Putin's Russia.
"We're going to provide even fighting jets," Borrell said at a Sunday press conference."We're not talking about just ammunition. We are providing more important arms to go to a war." The announcement came after a series of financial sanctions on Russia and other Western nations pledging humanitarian and military aid. President Joe Biden on Saturday announced the U.S. State Department will send $350 million worth of weapons to Ukraine, on top of more than $1 billion in security assistance the U.S. has given to Ukraine over the past year.
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