1/5
License Photo” peak=”533″ onclick=”st_ss_sh1();” src=”https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/upi/7441671200144/2022/1/c28cc9531eb5864156d0ebc67be5a5c7/EU-signs-aid-deal-for-Ukraine-schools-imposes-new-sanctions-on-Russia.jpg” title=”The European Union Friday signed a brand new $121,855,000 support bundle with Ukraine to rebuild war-damaged colleges because the EU additionally imposed new sanctions on Russia. European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen mentioned Russia’s assaults in opposition to civilian infrastructure are deliberate crimes in opposition to hundreds of thousands of harmless folks. Picture by German Chancellor Press Workplace/UPI | License Photo” width=”800″>
The European Union Friday signed a brand new $121,855,000 support bundle with Ukraine to rebuild war-damaged colleges because the EU additionally imposed new sanctions on Russia. European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen mentioned Russia’s assaults in opposition to civilian infrastructure are deliberate crimes in opposition to hundreds of thousands of harmless folks. Picture by German Chancellor Press Workplace/UPI | License Photo
Dec. 16 (UPI) — The European Union and Ukraine have signed a $121,855,000 help bundle for reconstruction of colleges broken by Russia’s struggle on Ukraine. The EU has additionally imposed additional sanctions in opposition to practically 200 Russians and Russian entities.
As well as, the EU is launching a solidarity marketing campaign for donating faculty buses to Ukraine.
“Russia’s focused assaults in opposition to civilian infrastructure, particularly as winter grips the nation, are a deliberate crime in opposition to hundreds of thousands of harmless folks,” European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement. “And they’re a gross violation of worldwide legislation. The EU’s high precedence is to carry again as quickly as doable Ukrainian kids again to high school.”
She mentioned by early 2023 the EU will ship faculty buses to Ukraine to help the rehabilitation of colleges “broken and destroyed by Russia’s brutal struggle.”
The help bundle consists of cash for humanitarian support, with parts of the cash channeled via the United Nations Workplace for Venture Providers and the U.N. Improvement Program.
“I’m grateful to the European Fee, and President Ursula von der Leyen particularly, for supporting the restoration of Ukrainian colleges,” Ukraine’s first woman, Olena Zelenska, mentioned in an announcement. “At this time, lower than a 3rd of kids in Ukraine have chance to frequently attend a faculty. The remainder have to review on-line or in a hybrid format. Because of fixed shelling and blackouts, it turns into more and more troublesome.”
The European Fee will work with the Ukrainian authorities and the Olena Zelenska Basis to coordinate and ship the help.
The new EU sanctions in opposition to Russia embrace the Russian Armed Forces, particular person officers, protection industrial firms, members of the Russian State Duma and Federation Council and others.
“This listing covers key figures concerned in Russia’s brutal and deliberate missile strikes in opposition to civilians, within the kidnapping of Ukrainian kids to Russia, and within the theft of Ukrainian agricultural merchandise,” the European Fee mentioned in an announcement.
The sanctions embrace “extreme export restrictions” on 168 Russian entities intently linked the military-industrial advanced. Three extra Russian banks have been additionally sanctioned, together with a full transaction ban on the Russian Improvement Financial institution.