Emmanuel Macron announces the creation of a “special fund of 100 million euros” to support kyiv

France “has provided military support to Ukraine from day one”. Emmanuel Macron made a point of recalling this during a speech at the end of a European summit in Prague, Friday, October 7, where 43 leaders from the continent met for two days. “The focus of today’s discussion was to come back to the war in Ukraine and energy,” explained the French president, specifying that it was about a “informal summit and without written conclusion”.

Emmanuel Macron announced on this subject the creation “a special fund which will allow, if necessary, Ukraine to buy directly from our manufacturers the equipment it needs most”. The Head of State specified that this fund would be endowed with 100 million euros “to start”, without giving more details.

The president also said that France was working “with some European partners on additional deliveries of [canons] Caesar”specifying that these deliveries should be carried out in collaboration with Denmark, because these guns were initially intended for this country.