The high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, conveyed this Saturday the message to the “heroic” Ukrainian people that the EU will do “whatever is necessary” for them to win the war against Russia, while urging the Twenty-seven to provide “additional” military support.

“To the heroic people of Ukraine: We will do whatever it takes to help you win the war. For your freedom, for our freedom. For our common future. “Slava (long live) Ukraine!” Borrell wrote on his official Twitter account coinciding with the second anniversary of the beginning of the large-scale Russian invasion of this country.

Borrell, who held a telephone conversation this Saturday with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dimitro Kuleba, urged member states to provide “additional military support.”

“The EU has supported Ukraine from day one and we will continue to do so with one key priority: I urge Member States to provide additional military support,” Borrell said.

And, in a video, in which the G7 Foreign Ministers appear, Borrell pointed out that the seven most industrialized countries in the world will defend “respect for sovereignty, independence, international law, global security, freedom and peace” of Ukraine.

“For two years, Europe has been living the grim reality of the biggest war of aggression since World War II.. There must be no return to the dark past of military aggression and imperialism. For Europe and the world to be safe, Ukraine must prevail,” added the head of European diplomacy.

This is the thesis that Borrell and Kuleba maintain in a joint article published this Saturday on Project Syndicate, a website that presents exclusive comments from academics, policymakers, professionals and civic activists.

“All Europeans are interested in Ukraine winning this war” and Russian President Vladimir Putin “should not impose the application of the law of the strongest,” Borrell and Kuleba maintain in their article.

The head of European diplomacy drew attention to the fact that “Russia has found ways to circumvent Western sanctions by diversifying its trade routes, and exports by European companies to third countries for subsequent transfer to Russia have increased exponentially.”

Precisely for that reason, Borrell said, the EU has intensified actions to tackle circumvention in its 13th sanctions package, with stricter export controls to reduce Russia's supply networks and a commitment to partners in the South Caucasus and Central Asia.

Coinciding with the second anniversary of the war, the European Union approved this Friday the thirteenth package of sanctions against Russia, which includes the largest group of measures in a single batch and also against Chinese companies.

In total, 194 names will join the sanctioned list, according to the Council of the EU in a statement, so that it will have more than 2,000 members, including the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the Foreign Minister, Sergei. Lavrov, sanctioned since the beginning of the war.

In the thirteenth package of sanctions, the EU mainly included people related to the Russian military network, some involved with the supply of weapons from North Korea to Moscow; to judges, authorities of occupied areas, especially linked to the deportation of children, and companies that have participated in the supply of weapons.

It has been decided to add 27 new entities to the regulation that prohibits the export of dual-use goods (civil and military). Up to 17 are from Russia and ten from other countries: four from China, one from Turkey, one from Thailand, one from Kazakhstan, one from Serbia, one from Sri Lanka and one from India.