Putin warns over arms deliveries to Kyiv

Key summit

"We will introduce with our G7 partners an additional price cap on Russian petroleum products and by the 24th of February ... we aim to have the 10th package of sanctions in place," she said.

Von der Leyen arrived in Kyiv on Thursday with the bloc's most senior diplomat, Josep Borrell, ahead of a Ukraine-EU summit on Friday in Kyiv, which is seeking EU membership.

Zelensky said his country deserved to start accession talks this year to "give energy and motivation to our people to fight".

But EU leaders said the process could take many years.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed the EU, and specifically von der Leyen, had called for Russia to be defeated, so its economy would be devastated.

"Is this not racism, not Nazism?" Lavrov said.

Lavrov's comments echoed Putin, who has frequently drawn parallels between what he calls Moscow's special military operation in Ukraine and the Soviet war against Nazi Germany.

Moscow launched the military operation last year, saying that Russia needed to "denazify" Ukraine.

Von der Leyen's trip also came one day after Kyiv raided the homes of an oligarch and public officials, as part of efforts to ease Western concerns about graft.

"I'm comforted to see that your anti-corruption bodies are on alert and effective," von der Leyen said.

                                                                                                       Xinhua