The head of diplomacy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, considered this Wednesday that the war in Ukraine, caused by the Russian invasion, is now “in a dangerous phase” due to the “terrifying scenario” regarding nuclear weapons From Russia.
The war continues and the news from the battlefield is good for Ukraine. Ukraine is back on the offensive [mas] the war has entered a new phase, a phase that is undoubtedly dangerous because we are facing a terrifying scenario, to which we must not turn a blind eye”, declared the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
In a debate in the plenary session of the European Parliament, in the French city of Strasbourg, Josep Borrell spoke on a “conventional war scenario in which a nuclear power intervenes, a nuclear power that is currently withdrawing from the conventional scenario and that threatens to use nuclear weapons”.
“It is certainly a worrying scenario, in which we have to show that our support for Ukraine does not waver,” he stressed.
Despite stressing that “Ukraine is advancing on three fronts, in Donbass, […]in south central Zaporizhia, advancing towards Mariupol, and finally towards Kherson”, the head of community diplomacy pointed out that Russia “still has numerical superiority, superiority in firepower”, so caution is required.
Earlier today, EU member states reached a political agreement on new sanctions on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, an eighth package that will take effect on Thursday as a “strong response” to the annexation of Ukrainian territories.
Proposed by the European Commission last Wednesday, in the face of the Russian “new escalation” with the holding of “fraudulent referendums”, partial mobilizations and the threat of resorting to nuclear weapons, the new package of sanctions from the European Union includes a ceiling on Russian oil price, new trade restrictions to deprive Russia of some 7,000 million euros of income, a ban on exporting more products to deprive the Kremlin of key technologies for the Russian war machine and an update of the list of people and entities subject to restrictive measures.
Specifically, the EU added pro-Russian officials in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia to the individual sanctions list.
In recent days, there have even been Russian attacks in the area of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, the largest in Europe, after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of 300,000 Russian reservists. .
“The situation of the Russian army is very bad. Among other things, because the Russian soldiers do not know what the war is for and the 300,000 who will be brought from their homes to the front will understand it even less, so the war can be won on the battlefield, but it must be won above all . in the field of ideas. In addition to the war itself, there is another war, which is the war for the supremacy of values”, said Josep Borrell.
And at a time when interruptions in Russian supplies to the EU, specifically gas, are feared, the head of community diplomacy stressed that Russian President Vladimir Putin “is hoping that the cold, the cuts in the supply of gas, high prices and low temperatures undermine the European will to continue supporting Ukraine”.
“This is the place to ask Europeans to understand what is at stake because our support for Ukraine is not just a matter of generosity, our support for Ukraine must be unwavering because Ukraine’s security is inextricably linked to our own security.” , he added.
Source: Observadora
