The European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs delegation is turning the normalization of relations with Beijing into a bargaining chip to secure Russian concessions in Ukraine.
A heavy wave of Russian ballistic missile and drone strikes has left people dead across Ukraine, prompting renewed appeals from Kyiv for urgent defensive interceptor supplies.
Following a request from Kyiv, the extension of protection until 2028 excludes newly arriving men of military age but the existing rights for 4.4M current beneficiaries remain unaffected.
