Borrell will visit Ukraine on January 4-6.
Josep Borrell will visit Donbass / photo REUTERS
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell will visit Ukraine on January 4-6 at the invitation of Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
As reported press service Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this will be his third visit to Ukraine.
“The visit of the head of European diplomacy aims to attest to the support of our state from the EU against the background of the aggressive actions of the Russian Federation,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
On January 5, Kuleba and Borrel will visit the contact line in the Luhansk region. This will be the first trip of a high representative of the EU to Donbass since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
They will hold negotiations, the key topics of which will be the containment of the Russian Federation from further aggression, in particular through tough economic sanctions, the promotion of a peaceful settlement based on respect for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, the implementation of humanitarian projects in the Donbass, and support for further internal transformations in our state.
During a trip to the contact line, the Minister and the EU High Representative will talk to the media.
Aggravation on the border of Ukraine and the Russian Federation
On November 11, Bloomberg published an article discussing the risks of a full-scale Russian attack on Ukraine. The agency noted that the circles of American and European diplomats are seriously worried about the current movement of Russian troops towards the Ukrainian border.
Moscow itself denies this, calling the autumn redeployment of troops a “show of force.”
In early November, information began to appear in the Western media with reference to satellite imagery data about the active movement of the Russian military to the border with Ukraine.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine denied this information.
This is the second likely wave of aggravation on the Russian-Ukrainian border since March 2021. However, as Bloomberg writes, so far the concentration of Russian troops takes place mainly at night, while in the spring the Kremlin openly threatened an offensive, exerting political pressure on Ukraine, the EU and the United States.
