Poroshenko called for strengthening Ukraine at a meeting with the Group of Friends of Ukraine in the European Parliament
Petro Poroshenko met with the Group of Friends of Ukraine in the European Parliament in Brussels. The Fifth President emphasized that Russia is massively attacking energy and civil infrastructure, leaving Ukrainian cities without electricity, water supply, and heat.
“I noted that a sustainable peace is possible only when the aggressor is deprived of the ability to achieve its strategic goals. The formula for success is obvious: strengthening Ukraine + strengthening Europe and NATO + weakening Russia and its allies,” Poroshenko wrote on social media.
According to him, this involves increasing the supply of modern weapons (primarily air defense systems and drone technologies), developing the Ukrainian defense-industrial complex, stable macro-financial support, using frozen Russian assets to finance defense needs and the restoration of Ukraine, as well as introducing effective security guarantees. At the same time, in the long term, the only effective security guarantee for Ukraine remains NATO membership, the leader of Eurosolidarity is convinced.
“He stressed the need to increase political and sanction pressure on Russia from the EU and the G7 countries, in particular, to accelerate the preparation and approval of an effective and meaningful 20th package of EU sanctions against the Russian aggressor in coordination with other partners,” Petro Poroshenko writes.
He took the initiative to hold a special meeting of the European Parliament on the eve of the 4th anniversary of the full-scale invasion, prepare a strong special resolution in support of Ukraine, and conduct high-level visits by EU representatives to Ukraine.
“In the context of the negotiation process on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, we discussed problematic issues of opening negotiations, primarily the “Fundamentals” cluster. I expressed my gratitude to the deputies of the European Parliament for voting on allocating a long-term financial loan to Ukraine in the amount of 90 billion euros, and also discussed the parameters and content of the regulatory decisions on providing this loan to Ukraine. During the meeting, special attention was paid to strengthening the democratic stability of Ukraine in conditions of war,” Poroshenko noted.