'For the first time ever the European Union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons to a country under attack, said the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, as she announced the bloc's commitment to support the Ukrainian war effort against Russia.
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The EU will also shut down its airspace for any and all Russian aircraft and 'in another unprecedented step' ruled it will ban Russian-state backed television channels RT and Sputnik, as well as their subsidiaries, so that the Kremlin media machine 'will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin’s war and to sow division in our union'

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