BRUSSELS, October 11. /TASSS/. European Commissioner for Defense and Space Andrius Kubilius has called for not expecting any more any assistance from the United States regarding the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.

"Until now the EU was the only serious financial supporter of Ukraine, but was expecting the US political leadership will help to bring peace to Ukraine. A time comes when the EU together with Ukraine needs to elaborate and implement an independent Peace Strategy," he wrote on X.

He did not explain why it was decided to change the stance. Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Donald Trump of the United States held a phone call on October 9 where they discussed, among other topics, supplies of oil products. Earlier, Washington’s actions were criticized by EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who promised to impose sweeping sanctions against Russia, obviously referring to the 22th package of sanctions the EU countries have been failing to agree on for nearly four months.

The European Commission said earlier that since the outbreak of the conflict, the European Union has spent 228.5 billion euro to support the Kiev regime.