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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said ahead of an EU-Ukraine summit next week that Ukraine had unconditional support from the bloc and that the country needed to prevail against Russian attacks to defend European values.
EU president says Ukraine has unconditional support ahead of summit
FRANKFURT, Jan 28 (Reuters) – European Commission
President Ursula von der Leyen said ahead of an EU-Ukraine
summit next week that Ukraine had unconditional support from the
bloc and that the country needed to prevail against Russian
attacks to defend European values.
“We stand by Ukraine’s side without any ifs and buts,” von
der Leyen said in a speech on Saturday at an event of her party,
the Christian Democrat CDU, in Duesseldorf, Germany.
Ukraine “is fighting for our shared values, it is fighting
for the respect of international law and for the principles of
democracy and that is why Ukraine has to win this war”, she
said.
Von der Leyen and her fellow EU commissioners plan an
EU-Ukraine summit on Feb. 3.
(Reporting by Ludwig Burger and Matthias Inverardi; Editing by
Alison Williams)
