The European Union “has from the very beginning stood by Ukraine as it exercises its inherent right to self-defence against Russia’s full-scale war of aggression”, said the European Council, on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Putin’s armed aggression and of the visit that will take the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to Kyiv. The EU “has adopted unprecedented sanctions against Russia. The EU and its member states are Ukraine’s biggest provider of financial, economic, military and humanitarian support”. Since the start of the war, the EU has provided €193.3 billion in support for Ukraine and its people. The assistance includes: €103.3 billion in financial, economic and humanitarian support; €69.3 billion in military support; €17 billion in support for refugees within the EU; and €3.7 billion in proceeds from immobilised Russian assets.