BUDAPEST, December 16. /TASS/. European Union leaders are set to consider the issue of allocating six billion euros from the European Peace Facility to supply Ukraine with weapons instead of seeking a Christmas ceasefire, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.
"Judging by the proposals on the agenda, most of them do not yet see the new reality. Even the approaching Christmas cannot lift the morale of the war atmosphere. Despite the possibility of a Christmas ceasefire and a mass exchange of prisoners of war [between Russia and Ukraine], today they want to waste over six billion euros on arms supplies. They are also pushing the Ukrainians to send 18-year-olds to the front," he wrote on his Facebook (a social media site banned in Russia since it is owned by Meta corporation deemed extremist by the Russian authorities) upon arriving in Brussels to take part in the EU foreign ministers’ meeting.
Szijjarto also expressed concern that the meeting's participants would consider imposing sanctions on several Georgian officials just because "the Georgian people dared to elect a sovereign government."
"There will be a big clash today, but we will not retreat from the position of the peace supporters: we don't need new weapons, we need a ceasefire in Ukraine," the top diplomat concluded.
Following reports from Brussels, the military aid to Ukraine, the situation in Syria after the fall of the Bashar Assad regime, and the potential sanctions against the Georgian authorities will be the main topics of the last meeting of top EU diplomats this year.