EU leaders urged to put economies ‘on war footing’ at Ukraine negotiations

Prime ministers to examine plans to confiscate billions of euros in interest from frozen Russian assets and send the money to Kyiv

EU leaders are to meet in Brussels to discuss ways to radically increase military and financial support for Ukraine amid calls for member states to put their economies on a war footing".

Fuelled by what one diplomat said was a new sense of urgency and immediacy" over the war in Ukraine, rhetoric on Moscow has notably hardened in the past few days.