This is going to be a primarily a ground war. In this respect, the fact those EU countries decided not to supply those aircraft is probably now moot.
Those countries never decided or agreed to any such thing in the first place, upon closer inspections.
There has been some praise about the EU standing together, but the look under the hood is not really nice.
The individual countries have indeed committed and delivered, in some cases at least, a noble and survival critical response. Bravo.
That needs to be viewed separately from the EU leadership who tried to sieze the marketing potential afterwards. With a baffling announcement of the monetary value and fighter jets from countries even on Ukrainian borderline who had not been consulted.
The numbers were probably downloaded from Wikipedia, as the hardware is mostly cannibalised and unflyable, remaining single/double units being maintained by Russian expert personnel in-situ.
Don't forget Mrs. Leyen was the DE Minister of Defundce, who got effectively kicked out the
national executive for causing mayhem, into the EU bodies.
First the SWIFT 'mother of all sanctions' could not cutoff Russia because Germany was 'calculating the effect on us', then after the agreement it was delayed almost a week because the list of affected banks was not compiled. Finally, Sberbank is not on it, owned by RF ministry of finance 50+%. The Gazprom's own bank also not cutoff. Not surprised.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-01/eu-agrees-to-block-russian-banks-from-swift-sparing-key-firms
No, the EU common bodies deserve exactly the credit to their achievement, which is probably zero.
Unloaded support material is the new boots on the ground. Bravo to those who managed, apparently US did from a large distance, Turkey shut the strait, and China allows open informing on social media.
The European countries are too numerous to list, acting individually... well noticed.
I guess the German 5000 helmets have arrived in the meantime too, did they?
http://www.cbr.ru/psystem/fin_msg_transfer_system/
Russian State Bank's own cross border system, apart from the usual central Asian connections has banks from Switzerland and Germany. Whoohaa...
Mother of all smokes and mirrors, at best.
Meanwhile, in the EU high chairs:
https://palnws.be/2022/01/frans-timmermans-poetin-bedreigt-oekraine-omdat-hij-aandacht-wil-afleiden-van-klimaatprobleem/
No shortage of unuseful idiots.