commission president was a lot on the line who we just saw there also the european council president shaw michelle, and against the secretary general of nato, we heard a bit about the sanctions that europe is preparing at the mom, but, but what really stood out to you from that statement and from that meeting earlier . yes, him, you're right. it's not that usual the usual that the 3 of them gave a press conference together, but this the day, it clearly is not a usual day. it's a very extraordinary day. and the very said that that's at least for your team leaders, said frontline, but also in stoughton berg. and they both spoke to media earlier. and basically we each right again what they said earlier and said that this is actually an attack. that is, is a relentless attack, reckless attack, something that is unprecedented. and that is the biggest attack, or the biggest war since the 2nd world war in europe. and they condemned this attack russia's attack on ukraine or on the sovereign states and said they want to help you wants to help your crane wants to provide your grain with humanitarian aids to

new council, president shaw michelle summed up the views of many in the block and janet suassa offer an olive branch while rush. sharon goods, missile test intern, tenuous to almost troops were clothing. gentlemen. one thing is certain, if there is further military aggression, we really, we are 3 massive sanctions over just so russia must be and will be severe. but let's be french. it will be also a trust for us in europe. losing our prize europe seems willing to pay if russia does attack ukraine. because the threat from moscow has not caused division in the alliance. michelle stressed, but cemented unity as unity of purpose. the youth foreign policy chief added in contrast to countries like russia and china, which were undermining democracy and watering down human rights must realize that the main tar did is not about defending western values is not about defending the west, but of holding shared principles that on to been come on security and promote collective goals. the conference was a show of western resolve, but not off dialogue with russia, which was absent for the 1st time i

you leaders, european union commission, president ursula of underlying and you council president shaw michelle here just after stoughton burges initial press conference. and they were also talking about preparations. the european union is making that the frontline states are ready to welcome people coming from ukraine. so this is certainly all hands on deck here in brussels. but terry, as you said, you know, ukraine is not a member of nato. i mean, what exactly can nato do here to make a difference? if this conflict does not spill over, you crate orders? i don't think anyone thinks they can make a difference any more inside ukraine. there was a lot of defensive weaponry sent to ukraine. there were trainers in ukraine for many years. teaching the ukranian military. how to better prepare themselves, how to be more efficient. i mean, i don't know that anyone expected this to come to pass, but you know, they've been training ukraine for years, knowing that ukraine did not have this article 5 guarantee that a nato ally would have, that other countries would come to fight alongside the ukrainians. b

at the same time, you'll hear messages of support from european union council. president shaw michelle from huh. you commission, president ursula vander lion and all the other leaders saying they will do whatever they can to help ukraine and to bring ukraine closer to the european union. although that may well be short of membership at this point, and e, u foreign policy chief justice burrell is warning you citizens, that the sanctions it's imposing will hurt moscow, but will also hurt europe. what more can you tell us about that? that's right, a u foreign policy chief burrell held a press conference today after meeting with defense ministers. and he said, you know, the goal here is to change russian behavior to try to reverse the war in ukraine. but he warned european citizens that at the same time they are going to feel the pain of these sanctions as well. the european union economy will also be hurt by this. i mean, you've seen that the, the russian stock market, of course, it was, it was absolutely in free fall today because of the sanctions. but the european, the european stock ma