This pact follows the initiative that Borrell proposed last March to use around 3 billion euros generated by immobilized Russian assets, with the aim of channeling them from July.
European Union member states reached an agreement in principle on Wednesday on measures to spend the profits generated by Russian assets frozen in Europe on military aid and Ukraine’s recovery.
In a message on social networks, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU announced the agreement reached at the level of the bloc’s ambassadors to use the benefits generated by the assets of the Central Bank of Russia held in Europe are immobilized in support of Ukraine. , in a new step to support Kiev.
This pact follows the initiative launched last March by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Joseph Borrellto use approximately 3000 million euros generated by immobilized Russian assets, with the aim of channeling them from the month of July.
The agreement comes on the same day that Ukraine’s public electricity company Ukrenergo warned of the possibility blackouts This could affect the entire Ukrainian territory under Kiev’s control, due to the damage caused by this morning’s Russian attack on electricity generation infrastructure in six regions of the country.
According to Ukrenergo, this is the case fifth major attack on Ukraine’s energy system since last March 22, when Russia launched a bombing campaign against electrical infrastructure that has completely destroyed some of Ukraine’s most important power stations, depriving the country of much of its generating capacity.
According to the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, this new wave of Russian attacks has caused damage to electricity generation and distribution infrastructure in the regions of Ukraine. Lviv, Vinitsa and Ivano-Frankivsk (west), Poltava and Kirovograd (center) and Zaporizhia (southeast).
Tens of thousands of subscribers were left without electricity in several regions of Ukraine as a result of the attack, although some 50,000 subscribers have had electricity restored after industry workers restored power, the vast majority of them in the western Vinitsa region, the ministry said. of energy.
Ukraine has also activated the import of electrical energy from Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Moldova to maintain supply.
Source: EITB
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