EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas announced multi-billion dollar aid provided to Ukraine and the EU's preparation of the 16th package of sanctions against Russia.

"We have provided well over €130 billion in total. Close to €50 billion in military support. This makes us the biggest international donor of Ukraine. We will have trained 75,000 Ukrainian soldiers by the end of next month. We have adopted the most wide-sweeping sanctions [against the Russian Federation] we have ever imposed. (...) Now we are working on another – a 16th – package of sanctions," Kallas said, speaking in Brussels at the annual conference of the European Defence Agency on Wednesday.

Speaking about the use of emergency revenues from frozen Russian assets in the interests of Ukraine, the head of European diplomacy explained that this would provide "more ammunition, more air defense and a cash injections in the European Ukrainian defense industry."

"I also want to look into doing even more, including on immobilised assets to fight for Ukraine," Kallas said.

At the same time, she called for coordinating "capacity planning and European Union defense industrial policy."

"Here, we must also learn from past experience. The million rounds initiative for Ukraine was an Estonian idea. And although we have now delivered well over a million rounds, in the end it was too little, too late. We need to make sure that we can ramp up our defense industry and get the products we need on time," the head of EU diplomacy said.