Hungary opposes the new package of sanctions against Russia. In addition, the Orban government does not support the proposal to double the EU fund, which finances the supply of weapons to Ukraine, writes the FT. The publication, referencing information from hig...
NATO funds from multiple countries may provide Ukraine with $3.4B intended for Afghanistan. Ukraine may receive additional funds as a result of the redistribution of the fund created by NATO countries to support the Afghan army. As Politico writes, NATO countries are ready to consider redist...
Companies collaborating with the Russian army were included in the US blacklist. The Biden administration has added 24 companies to the export control blacklist for supporting the Russian military or defense industry, Pakistan’s nuclear activities, or supplying electronics t...
The US Senate has supported a resolution recognizing the Russian Federation’s actions in Ukraine as genocide. The US Senate Committee on International Relations adopted a resolution recognizing the Russians’ actions in Ukraine as genocide, the US Senate reported. “Crimes committed against the Ukra...
The European Commission presents the 9th package of sanctions against Russia. The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, presented the ninth package of sanctions against Russia, which the EU countries must approve. About 200 individuals and legal entities were a...
NATO sees no prospects for negotiation or relationship with Russia any time soon. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said the conditions are currently not ripe for peace negotiations because Russia has shown no sign of engaging in negotiations respecting Ukraine’s sovereignty and te... #JensStoltenberg #NATOandRussia #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine
The US and Britain become energy partners to end Europe’s dependence on Russia. On December 7, the United States and Great Britain announced the creation of a partnership under which they will work to reduce global reliance on Russian energy exports, stabilize energy markets, and... #BritainAndUS #EnergyIndependence #USandUKenergyPartners
Russia has changed their narrative regarding the safety zone around the Zaporizhzhia NPP. Russian media reports that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia will strive to reach an agreement on creating a protective area around the ZNPP by the end of the year. “We will strive for t... #SerhiyRyabkov #zaporizhzhiaNPP
Hungary has blocked the provision of €18B to Ukraine. On December 6, in Brussels, at the meeting of finance ministers from the EU member states, there was no green light given regarding €18B in economic aid for Ukraine. Hungary is still blocking these fu... #EUfinancialAid #VictorOrban #ZbigniewStanyura
The EU is discussing the upper limit of the gas price cap at €220. EU countries on Tuesday considered the latest proposal to reduce the gas price gap to €220 per MWh, a week ahead of a meeting where they hope to resolve the issue. Several nations, including Europe... #EUgasPrices #GasPriceCap
Ukraine and Montenegro signed a declaration on the North Atlantic perspective. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister of Montenegro Dritan Abazović signed a joint declaration on the prospects of Ukraine’s membership in NATO. The declaration defines the... #DritanAbazovic #MontenegroandUkraine #NATOandUkraine #Zelenskyy
The EU is finalizing work on a new package of sanctions, including restrictions on the financial sector and drones. The European Commission has prepared a draft of the ninth package of sanctions against Russia that is expected to be approved on December 12 at the meeting of the heads of foreign affairs of the EU co... #EUsanctionsPackage #RussianOilSanctions #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Ukraine and the UAE plan to sign a large-scale economic partnership. On December 5, negotiations between Ukraine and the UAE regarding the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements (CEPA) began, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported. The joint statement regarding... #ThaniBinAhmedAlZeyoudi #UAEandUkraine #YuliyaSvyridenko
Ukraine needs security guarantees, not Russia. Russia is an aggressor that poses a threat to neighboring countries. Therefore, if anyone needs security guarantees, it is Ukraine and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, stated the Deputy He... #MarcinPrzydacz #UkraineRussiaTalks #WarinUkraine
Azovstal demands sanctions against metal thieves. The Azovstal metallurgical plant, of the Metinvest Group, once again appealed to President Zelenskyy’s office to impose sanctions on companies and persons involved in the theft of Ukrainian meta... #Azovstal #AzovstalTtheftOfMetal #Metinvest
The Russian oil price cap of $60 made both Ukraine and Russia furious. The Council of the EU has decided to set the maximum price for crude oil, oil products, and oil obtained from bituminous minerals originating in or exported from Russia at $60 per barrel starting Dece... #RussianOilPriceLimit #RussianOilSanctions #Zelenskyy
The EU allocates €533M for interregional programs for Ukraine and Moldova. The European Commission has approved four new programs with the participation of 10 member states, Ukraine, and Moldova, in the amount of €533M. The EC website says that the programs aim to develop cr... #EUaidforUkraine #EUsupportforUkraine #InterregionalProgramforUkraine
Russian population’s support for its full-scale war in Ukraine is decreasing. According to the UK defense ministry, recent polling suggests that Russian public support for what the Kremlin calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine is “falling significantly”. The UK ci... #RussiansSupportWar #SociologicalSurvey #WarinUkraine
Pentagon orders six NASAMS for Ukraine, worth $1.2B. The Pentagon has reported that the US Department of Defense and the American corporation Raytheon Technologies have signed a contract to manufacture six more NASAMS air defense systems for the Armed F... #AirDefenseSystemsForUkraine #NASAMS #USmilitaryairforUkraine
Ukraine and Great Britain sign digital trade agreement. The Minister of Economy of Ukraine, Yulia Svyridenko, and the Minister of International Trade of Great Britain, Kemi Badenoch, agreed on the conclusion of a Digital Trade Agreement, the Ministry of Ec... #BritainandUkraine #DigitalTradeAgreement #KemiBadenoch #YuliyaSvyridenko
The UN plans to provide $5.7B in aid to war-affected Ukrainians in 2023. 13.6 million war-affected Ukrainians have already received UN aid, and a total of $5.7B has been requested for Ukraine’s needs next year, the UN reported. In total, a record $51.5B needs to be raised ... #MartinGriffiths #UNaidForUkraine #UNemergencyAid
NATO allies urged to supply battle tanks to Ukraine as soon as this winter. Lithuania’s top envoy is urging his NATO allies to send Kyiv main battle tanks as quickly as possible, as Ukrainian forces could use them to “revert the situation” on the ground now while the ground i... #BattleTanks #GabrieliusLandsbergis #tanksforUkraine #WarinUkraine
The United States is focused on providing air defense systems to Ukraine. “We’re now very focused on-air defense systems, and it is not just us, this includes many other countries,” Blinken told CNN. “We are working to make sure that the Ukrainians get those systems as qui... #AirDefenseSystemsForUkraine #AnthonyBlinken #USmilitaryairforUkraine
Stoltenberg called victory in the war a condition for Ukraine’s accession to NATO. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that an initial condition for consideration of Ukraine’s membership in NATO is its victory over the Russian Federation. He emphasized that to enabl... #JensStoltenberg #NATOandUkraine #NatoMembership #WarinUkraine
NATO has promised to increase support for Ukraine, and Kuleba asks for a quick supply of weapons. NATO allies have declared their readiness to increase support for Ukraine and to provide aid for as long as it takes. In this context, NATO will continue to coordinate closely with relevant stakehol... #DmytroKuleba #NATOsupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
The EU Commission is working on directing Russian assets to restore Ukraine. The European Commission proposes the creation of a special court to prosecute Russian crimes in Ukraine and determine the conditions for using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s benefit, Ursula von d... #ReparationsForUkraine #RussianAssetsArrested #UkraineRecovery #UrsulavonderLeyen
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited Elon Musk to visit Ukraine to witness Russia’s devastation. The Ukrainian president has invited Elon Musk to visit his war-ravaged nation and see for himself the damage wrought by Russia after the world’s richest man floated the idea of a peace deal that... #ElonMusk #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
NATO has open doors for Ukraine’s membership in the alliance. The consensus that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance remains in place. Currently, the main focus is to support the country’s struggle for liberation against the Russian military, said... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #NATOandUkraine
Russia’s weaponizing of winter is a war crime. The G7 ministers of justice condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s use of “winter as a weapon,” the German justice minister said Tuesday at a meeting with his counterparts in Berlin. Minister M... #MarcoBuschmann #RussianWarcrimes #WarinUkraine
Russia is doomed to lose the energy war with the West. According to economist Fatih Birol, former International Energy Agency executive, there are three reasons for this. First, at the beginning of the war, 75% of Russia’s gas exports and 55% of Rus... #energysanctions #FatihBirol #RussianEnergyResources #WarinUkraine
The EU Council has recognized the circumvention of anti-Russian sanctions as a criminal offense. As explained by the EU Council, member states have different definitions of what constitutes a violation of sanctions and what punitive measures should be applied in this case. This may lead to varyin... #circumventionOfSanctions #EUsanctions #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Borrell promises Ukraine EU support during the winter. EU leaders will discuss measures to help Ukraine prepare for the winter in terms of electricity shortages, EU High Representative Josep Borrell said. According to him, Putin continues his attempts to ... #EUsupportforUkraine #JosepBorrell #WarinUkraine
NATO will discuss defense and energy support for Ukraine. Ministers of foreign affairs of NATO countries will discuss the provision of new weapons, ammunition, and military equipment to Ukraine at a meeting in Bucharest on November 29-30. According to Ukrain... #DmytroKuleba #NATOaidforUkraine #NATOandUkraine
The head of the Ukrainian government has met with the ministers of foreign affairs of the Northern Baltic states. During a meeting in Kyiv with the foreign ministers of Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal discussed the 9th sanctions package against the Ru... #DenysShmyhal #MilitaryAidforUkraine #SanctionsAgainstRussia #SWIFTsanctions
Most NATO countries have exhausted their stockpiles of weapons for Ukraine. This mainly concerns small countries, reported the NYT. However, according to a representative from the alliance, 10 states can still provide more weapons. Among them are France, Germany, Italy, and t... #JensStoltenberg #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATOweaponforUkraine
Top House Republicans promise bipartisan support for Ukraine. Top House Republicans vowed their continued bipartisan support for Ukraine once the GOP takes control of the House in January, reported CNN. Republicans Mike Turner and Kevin McCarthy expressed their... #KevinMcCarthy #MikeTurner #UScongress #USsupportsUkraine
The EU Commission is preparing urgent aid for Ukraine’s energy sector. The European Commission has stepped up its efforts and is working with its partners to provide emergency support for Ukraine to restore and maintain electricity and heat supplies. The head of the Euro... #ElectricGeneratorsForUkraine #EnergyEquipment #EnergysectorUkraine #UrsulavonderLeyen
Canada has allocated $10M for generators, and Azerbaijan and Germany will strengthen their support for the Ukrainian energy sector. Canada provided $10M for Ukraine to purchase generators for critical infrastructure needs. These funds will be transferred to the International Organization for Migration. In addition, during an onlin... #ElectricGeneratorsForUkraine #HermanGalushchenko #UkraineENergySystem
Germany is ready to give up Russian oil starting in January. Germany is prepared to support the embargo beginning January 1 and replace the Russian oil delivered to the country through the Druzhba pipeline. According to Welt, oil refineries in Schwedt and Loyna... #DruzhbaPipeline #RussianOilEmbargo #SanctionsAgainstRussia
The EU plans to continue its policy of fully promoting trade with Ukraine. The European Union, which after the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine introduced a most favorable regime for trade with Ukraine, plans to continue this policy from the beginning of 2023, sai... #EUUkrainefreetrade #UkraineTrade #ValdisDombrovskis
Biden asks the US Congress to pass a law providing new aid for Ukraine by the end of the year. US President Joe Biden spoke to Congress and requested that they pass legislation by the end of the year that would provide for the allocation of a new large-scale package of support for Ukraine. This... #JoeBiden #MilitaryAidforUkraine #USsupportsUkraine
White House: Russia’s attempt to demoralize Ukrainians will fail again. As Russia struggles on the battlefield, it is increasingly turning to horrific attacks against the Ukrainian people with punishing strikes designed to damage energy grid infrastructure and deliberatel... #AdrienneWatson #USsupportsUkraine #WarinUkraine
Poland’s requests for Patriot systems to be sent directly to Ukraine must be discussed with NATO. German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has stressed that the use of NATO defense systems outside its territory needs to be agreed upon by all member states. This comes after the Polish defense mi... #AirDefenseOfPoland #ChristineLambrecht #PatriotForPoland
Blinken and Borrell condemn the missile assault tactics of the Russian Federation. The heads of EU and US diplomacy condemned the “criminal attacks” and “terrible tactics” of the Russian Federation, which on November 23 carried out another massive missile at... #AnthonyBlinken #JosepBorrell #MissileAttackOnUkraine #WarinUkraine
Biden directs $400M in military aid to Ukraine. On November 23, US President Joe Biden asked the State Department to provide Ukraine with $400M in military assistance, reported the White House. A White House official said that the package has ̶... #AnthonyBlinken #JoeBiden #USmilitaryairforUkraine
The IMF and Ukrainian authorities have agreed on $20B in funding for budgetary needs. Ukraine reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund that may open a path to a financial lifeline as the war-battered nation seeks as much as $20B to shore up its reserves and... #GavinGray #IMFaidforUkraine #IMFandUkraine
Switzerland has joined the eighth package of EU sanctions. The Swiss Federal Council on Wednesday approved new Russian sanctions that had been adopted by the European Union as part of the eighth package. The measures under the eighth package include introduci... #SanctionsAgainstRussia #SwitzerlandSanctionsforRussia
US senators call on the Pentagon to transfer Gray Eagle drones to Ukraine. A bipartisan group of US senators urged the Biden administration Tuesday to reconsider its decision not to give Ukraine advanced drones, saying that the technology could help Kyiv to hold its territor... #GrayEagleDrones #JoeBiden #LloydAustin #MilitaryAidforUkraine
The European Union announces $2.57B in funding for Ukraine. The European Union will provide another €2.5B ($2.57B) in financial aid for Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Tuesday. The EU Commission is planning to aid Ukrai... #DenysShmyhal #EUaidforUkraine #UrsulavonderLeyen
The US and its allies plan to agree on the Russian oil price cap. The United States, the European Union, and the G7 countries intend to reach a joint agreement on November 23 to set a maximum price for Russian oil, which could range from $60 to $70 per barrel. Curre... #anti_Russiansanctions #RussianOilPriceLimit
