European Commission Head before Ukraine-EU summit: We support Ukrainians without any "ifs" or "buts"

Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, said on the eve of next week's Ukraine-EU summit that Ukraine has the EU's unconditional support and that it must win the war to protect European values.

Source: Ursula von der Leyen, reports Reuters, cited by European Pravda

"We stand by Ukraine's side without any ifs and buts," von der Leyen said in a speech on Saturday at an event of her party, the Christian Democrat CDU, in Duesseldorf, Germany.

"Ukraine is fighting for our shared values, it is fighting for the respect of international law and for the principles of democracy and that is why Ukraine has to win this war", she said.

Von der Leyen and her fellow EU commissioners plan to visit Ukraine in early February to hold consultations with the Ukrainian government.

The Ukraine-EU summit is scheduled for 3 February. The integration of sectors of the Ukrainian economy into the single European market will be one of the key decisions to be discussed at the summit. 

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