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Both the EU and the US are devoting at or below one percent of GDP for Ukraine, while Russia has already disbursed around nine percent of its GDP since the beginning of the war, according to Andrius Kubilius (Photo: European Commission)

Inaugural EU defence commissioner warns of underspend for Ukraine compared with Russia

by Salomé Bonneyrat, Brussels,

The EU's new and first-ever commissioner for defence and security, Andrius Kubilius, on Thursday (5 December), called for increasing financial support from EU states to Nato.

Speaking at the European Parliament, Kubilius, a former MEP and ex-Lithuanian prime minister, warned the EU was “quite behind" the stated target of spending two percent or more of nation...

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Both the EU and the US are devoting at or below one percent of GDP for Ukraine, while Russia has already disbursed around nine percent of its GDP since the beginning of the war, according to Andrius Kubilius (Photo: European Commission)

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