The European Union's High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has called on EU member states to step up efforts to provide Ukraine with more power generation capacity and prevent "Putin from putting Ukraine into darkness and cold."

“There is a high percentage of Ukraine’s electricity generation capacity that has been damaged or destroyed - or it is out of the territorial control by the Ukrainian government. This is happening in summer. You can imagine in winter. Putin wants to put Ukraine into the darkness and cold. That is why the coming 2 or 3 months will be crucial. We have no time to waste before the winter arrives. I asked Ministers start mobilizing now to provide more power generation capacity to Ukraine. Contributing to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund is also needed,” Borrell said in Brussels on Monday at a press conference following a meeting of the EU Council on Foreign Affairs.

In addition, the ministers discussed Russian missile attacks on civilians and the recent attack on a children's hospital in Kyiv, “which shows that Ukraine needs more air defence. And air defence is required now.” “We discussed and we reviewed what we had been able to supply since the last month at the [NATO] Washington summit. Member States considered the possibility of increasing their support to Ukraine, in order to deflect these criminal air attacks,” the EU High Representative said.