Europe
EU to Push Partners to Cover €30 Billion Aid Gap for Ukraine
A member of the military visits a makeshift memorial to fallen Ukrainian and foreign soldiers at the Independence Square in Kyiv on March 2.
Photographer: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty ImagesThe European Union will ask international partners for additional funding for Ukraine as the war-battered nation risks running out of money in the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
EU leaders will call “for intensified outreach to third countries to help close the remaining gap of €30 billion ($34.9 billion)” when they gather for a summit meeting in Brussels later this month, according to draft conclusions seen by Bloomberg.