🇪🇺 Statement by High Representative Borrell on Russia’s misuse of the Holocaust in its current aggression:

“Contemporary Europe was built on the ashes of the Holocaust; it is a defining, terrible legacy of European history. This is why next week, we will commemorate the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

Latest comments by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov accusing “The West” of seeking a “final solution” for Russia are entirely misplaced, disrespectful and trample on the memory of the six million Jewish people, and other victims, who were systematically murdered in the Holocaust. This adds to previous antisemitic remarks of Minister Lavrov.

The Russian regime‘s manipulation of the truth to justify their illegal war of aggression against Ukraine has reached another unacceptable and despicable low point. 

There is no parallel between the crimes of Nazi Germany and the international help for Ukraine in defending its territory and people against an unjustified aggression. Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring country, targets and kills civilians there on a daily basis, with the stated aim to destroy the country and the Ukrainian nation.

Holocaust denial, distortion and trivialization are against EU law and EU values. The EU made the unequivocal commitment to ensure that such atrocities never happen again.”

European Commission #StandWithUkraine

🇺🇦 Сьогодні Президентка фон дер Ляйєн та 15 єврокомісарів перебувають у Києві для участі у зустрічі Колегії комісарів з Урядом України.

Ця зустріч надасть можливість обмінятися думками щодо багатьох сфер співпраці між ЄС та Україною, обговорити майбутню реконструкцію, а також європейський шлях країни.


🇪🇺 Today President von der Leyen and 15 Commissioners are in Kyiv for a College-to-Government meeting with the Government of Ukraine

It will be an opportunity to exchange on the many areas of cooperation between the EU and Ukraine, discuss the upcoming reconstruction as well as the country's European path.

Європейська Комісія / European Commission
#StandWithUkraine

💬 Main highlights from President von der Leyen’s press statement in Kyiv:

🇪🇺Since the beginning of the war, the European Union's economic, humanitarian and military support for Ukraine amounts to almost 50 billion euros.

💡The EU will provide additional 5 million LED light bulbs to Ukraine on top of the 30 million bulbs announced before.

⚡️ 2,400 generators will be sent to Ukraine in addition to the 3,000 already provided by the EU since the start of the war. Alongside the Member States in the Energy Community, the EU will make available over EUR 150 million to purchase vital energy equipment for Ukraine.

📄 The EU and Ukraine have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on renewable gases, such as biomethane or hydrogen, which is a very concrete step in the direction of Ukraine's green reconstruction.

⚖️ The International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression in Ukraine will be set up in The Hague. It will coordinate the collection of evidence of Russian war crimes and be embedded in the Joint Investigation Team supported by the EU's agency Eurojust.

European Commission #StandWithUkraine