The EU has pledged to train an extra 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers as part of a raft of announcements at the start of a two-day visit to Kyiv by European leaders.
“Russia is paying a heavy price as our sanctions are eroding its economy, throwing it back by a generation. We will keep turning up the pressure further,” the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, told a joint news conference with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
