More military aid to Ukraine in the face of a Russian assault in the country’s east should be the European Union’s priority rather than fresh sanctions, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday. An escalation in Ukraine’s separatist Donbass region “will happen with or without sanctions,” Borrell said in a press conference in Luxembourg after an EU foreign ministers’ meeting. Cutting gas imports from Russia is “not going to stop the Russian army waging war … it’s aid, it’s defence that really counts,” he said. EU foreign ministers were meeting for talks on the bloc’s next steps in…