{"id":1678184,"date":"2022-10-07T12:09:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T16:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1678184"},"modified":"2022-10-07T12:11:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T16:11:01","slug":"the-eu-plans-to-send-more-missiles-and-howitzers-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-eu-plans-to-send-more-missiles-and-howitzers-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU Plans To Send More Missiles And Howitzers To Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-eu-plans-to-send-more-missiles-and-howitzers-to-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1678184&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Macron Says EU Will Send More Arms, Howitzers to Ukraine \u2013 <\/strong>French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed on Thursday evening that the European Union plans to send more military equipment and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/how-many-anti-tank-missiles-have-been-sent-to-ukraine\/\">weapons<\/a> to Ukraine, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/06\/watch-ukraine-is-using-u-s-m777-artillery-to-pound-russias-military\/\">missile systems<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/09\/u-s-himars-m270-rockets-and-m777-howitzers-are-powering-ukraines-offensive\/\">howitzers<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20221006-european-political-community-holds-inaugural-meeting-amid-ukraine-war\">European Political Community Summit<\/a>, during which the leaders of 44 European countries met to discuss Ukraine and other pressing matters affecting the continent, Macron said that representatives of all 44 nations expressed their \u201ccondemnation for this Russian aggression.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to support Ukraine from a financial point of view, from a humanitarian point of view and from a military point of view,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/russia-ukraine-war-news-10-06-22\/index.html\">the French president also said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European summit was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.einnews.com\/pr_news\/594367959\/more-than-40-european-leaders-to-meet-at-prague-castle\">held at Prague Castle<\/a>, and while no official decisions were made at the event, it was a symbolic moment of unity for all EU member states and surrounding non-member states \u2013 many of whom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/politics\/at-european-political-community-summit-turkiye-has-chance-to-stress-its-problem-solving-skills-envoy\/2703857\">like Turkey<\/a>, have strongly advocated a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ukraine War Means More Russia Sanctions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Macron\u2019s comments follow the announcement that the European Union had given its final approval to the eighth round of sanctions against the Russian Federation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/eu-russia-sanctions-eighth-round-ukraine-war\/32066960.html\">The latest package<\/a> is designed to stop Moscow from receiving billions of euros in revenue from products that \u201cmight contribute to the Russian Federation\u2019s military and technological enhancement or to the development of its defense and security sector.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/09\/eu-stops-short-of-full-russian-travel-ban-over-ukraine\/\">sanctions package<\/a> will extend a ban on the import of Russian steel and steel products to the European Union, as well as the import of paper and wood pulp, appliances, and machinery that are not already covered by European Union sanctions. The latest round of sanctions also block the export of all European Union parts and goods used in aviation, including brakes and tires. The move will place further pressure on the Russian aviation industry, which faces a dire shortage of parts for passenger airline planes over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Bans on the export of nerve agents, chemical substances, and all other products that have no practical use other than torture and capital punishment were also implemented.\n<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the European Commission \u2013 the executive of the European Union \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_22_5989\">welcomed the adoption of the package<\/a> in response to \u201cRussia\u2019s continued escalation and illegal war against Ukraine, including by illegally annexing Ukrainian territory based on sham \u2018referenda\u2019, mobilising additional troops, and issuing open nuclear threats.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Ursula von der Leyen, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/09\/poland-thinks-ukraine-could-join-eu-in-a-few-years\/\">European Commission<\/a> president, also welcomed the package in response to Putin\u2019s threats to use weapons of mass destruction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will never accept Putin\u2019s sham referenda nor any kind of annexation in Ukraine. We are determined to continue making the Kremlin pay,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/eu-russia-sanctions-eighth-round-ukraine-war\/32066960.html\">von der Leyen said.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Jack Buckby is a British author, counter-extremism researcher, and journalist based in New York. Reporting on the U.K., Europe, and the U.S., he works to analyze and understand left-wing and right-wing radicalization, and reports on Western governments\u2019 approaches to the pressing issues of today. His books and research papers explore these themes and propose pragmatic solutions to our increasingly polarized society.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macron Says EU Will Send More Arms, Howitzers to Ukraine \u2013 French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed on Thursday evening that the European Union plans to send more military equipment and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1678186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1678186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}