New volume of European aid to Ukraine may exceed €20B

The EU foreign ministers will discuss providing Ukraine with an aid package worth more than €20 billion at a meeting in Brussels on February 24, according to The New York Times, Report informs via TASS.

Sources familiar with the discussions reported that European leaders are also considering the prospect of sending troops to Ukraine as a peacekeeping force and are also discussing increasing military spending in general.

Earlier, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that Budapest is against the proposal to allocate €20 billion.