EU outlines postwar security guarantees for Ukraine
The European Union's contribution to providing security guarantees to Ukraine will consist of financing, training, and supporting the defence industry.
This was announced by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, after an extraordinary video conference of EU foreign ministers on 26 November, according to European Pravda.
Kallas said that the EU, as a supranational structure, “will make a significant contribution to security guarantees by providing funding, conducting training, and supporting the defence industry.” She added that work on these details is ongoing, including the continuation of current missions in Ukraine.
Kallas stressed that “security guarantees for Ukraine do not change the fact that Russia is the real threat here.” She noted that “over the past 100 years, Russia has attacked more than 19 countries, some of them three or even four times,” while none of these countries has ever attacked Russia.
In her opinion, any peace agreement must “focus on how to get concessions from the Russian side so that they permanently cease their aggression and do not try to change borders by force.”
“The focus should be on what Russia, the aggressor, must do, not on what Ukraine, the victim, must sacrifice,” Kallas stressed.
She also reported that the ministers confirmed the common principles: sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, and Ukraine's inalienable right to self-defence, adhering to the rule: “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.”
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, stated that Russia's return to the G8 format “should definitely not happen.”
Kallas also said that providing Ukraine with so-called reparations loans, formed on the basis of Russia's frozen assets, is the most effective support mechanism for 2026–2027.
