D. Tusk: The EU will discover a answer for assist to Ukraine

“A method or one other, we’ll discover some answer to help Ukraine, with or with out (Viktor) Orban,” Tusk stated, referring to the Hungarian prime minister, who vetoed an EU assist package deal for Ukraine in December.

Hungarian Prime Minister V. Orban vetoed EU 50 billion in Brussels in December. EUR assist package deal for Kyiv. V. Orban is the one EU chief who maintains shut ties with the Kremlin following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The bloc will maintain a particular summit on Thursday to hunt a method out of the deadlock because the second anniversary of the warfare approaches.

A number of European leaders, together with these of Slovakia and Hungary, have condemned the battle and Kyiv’s requires tens of billions of euros in assist. However the newest assist package deal was vetoed solely by Budapest.

Tusk, the previous president of the European Council who chaired its summits, known as Orban “the one overtly anti-Ukrainian” chief of the bloc.

Forward of the summit, Tusk additionally stated he would converse to Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has angered Kyiv.

Mr. Fico has questioned Ukraine’s sovereignty and known as on Kyiv to cede a part of its territory to Moscow to finish the warfare, however Ukraine has repeatedly rejected such calls.

“It’s in Slovakia’s curiosity to not stay on the political and ethical sidelines, the place Viktor Orban discovered himself along with his pro-Putin rhetoric,” D. Tusk added.