🔹EU 🇪🇺 foreign policy chief Josep Borrell claims Europe does not have a choice but to supply Ukraine with weapons, when he was asked how 500 million euros 💶 needed for European infrastructure is being given to Ukraine (not a member of the EU) for weapons.

🔹The Council of the EU on May 5th, mere hours after Borrell's statement agreed to provide 1 billion euro (USD 1.1 billion) to the Ukraine 🇺🇦 for the purchase of weapons.

🔹Borrel also claimed China’s 🇨🇳 proposal to end the conflict in Ukraine is “not a peace plan. The diplomat insisted that demands made by Kiev are the only viable solution to the crisis, despite Russia 🇷🇺 making clear it will not accept them. “The only thing that can be called a peace plan is Vladimir Zelensky’s proposal,” he stated.

🔹EU bureaucrats & politicians self-righteous smugness and browbeating of the Global South (especially India) for not choosing sides in the Russia-Ukraine war is now being met with criticism from some Indian media.

🔹Today, India's 🇮🇳 FirstPost published an opinion article stating "It is time to call the bluff on Europe’s moral posturing as the conscience-keeper of the world....Europeans demand that countries in Global South and rising powers such as India become a party to punishing Russia at the cost of their own food or energy security".

🔹Recently, Finland's 🇫🇮 Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air published its report stating India is purchasing cheap Russian crude oil 🛢 and converting it into refined petroleum products, which are “laundered” in Europe and G7 countries. This "laundering" accusation was not taken kindly in India.

Video source EUI TV & EuroNews.