French FM: EU Council to agree on new tranche for Ukraine’s Armed Forces

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna believes that the EU Council will agree on a new tranche of 500 million euros for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Report informs referring to Interfax-Ukraine.

“Here in Brussels, we will discuss the possibility of providing a new tranche of 500 million euros through the European Peace Facility. I have no doubt that we will make this decision today,” the French foreign minister told reporters before a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council.

“We will continue our assistance to Ukraine, be it economic, financial, diplomatic or political, but also, of course, military, and we will even increase this assistance,” she noted.