Ukraine and arms supply: Can the EU bridge the gap?

The support of the 27 states is under the spotlight increasingly as doubts persist over America’s continued financing of the Ukrainian resistance. 

The EU has a new fund called the Ukraine Facility, an initial payment of 4.5 billion euros has been paid to Kyiv, part of a 50 billion euro pot to held assure essential functions of the Ukrainian state. 

But the issue of weapons and hardware is another level, with EU leaders urging member states to put production on a war-footing. 

There is a packed agenda over at the EU Council: defence, the Middle East, expanding the bloc, migration, agriculture. But Ukraine is the central theme. 

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Rebecca Gnignati and Juliette Brown.