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EU Approves 450 Million Euros of Arms Supplies for Ukraine

A Ukrainian Territorial Defence fighter takes the automatic grenade launcher from a destroyed Russian infantry mobility vehicle in Kharkiv on Feb. 27, 2022. — A Ukrainian Territorial Defence fighter takes the automatic grenade launcher from a destroyed Russian infantry mobility vehicle in Kharkiv on Feb. 27, 2022.
Photographer: Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images

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Jillian Deutsch and

February 27, 2022, 7:51 PM UTCUpdated onFebruary 27, 2022, 8:22 PM UTC

European Union foreign ministers agreed to send 450 million euros ($500 million) in military aid to Ukraine for lethal weapons, according to Josep Borrell, the bloc’s foreign policy chief.

The aid will be financed by the EU’s European Peace Facility and will see the bloc supply arms to a country at war for the first time in its history. Another 50 million euros will be provided for non-lethal purposes, Borrell said at a press conference in Brussels Sunday.