The EU will consider a large-scale investment program for its defense complex and Ukrainian assistance.

French President Emmanuel Macron says that at the EU summit on March 6, a new large-scale package of financial assistance to Ukraine will be considered. The summit’s goal is to strengthen support for Ukraine and instruct the European Commission to launch a large-scale joint financing program that will contribute to European security as soon as possible.

Macron noted that the implementation of such a large-scale aid package will take years, so Brussels must do everything possible to maintain US support. According to Macron, US President Donald Trump is more interested in concluding a truce with Putin than adhering to traditional American values, and this is a mistake.

“There can be no just and sustainable peace at the price of abandoning Ukraine,” Macron said, adding that if Washington agrees to sign a truce without any security guarantees for Ukraine, “US geostrategic influence over Russia, China, and other countries will disappear on the same day.”