Ukraine has fully implemented the EC’s seven recommendations. The government has adopted the target program, Unity in Diversity, to realize the rights and opportunities of national minorities and indigenous peoples, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal said. ... #AssociationwithEU #DenysShmyhal #EKrecommendation #ReformsinUkraine #UkraineEU
The IMF and Ukraine are preparing for the next disbursement from the IMF. On September 25, The IMF announced the start of technical discussions with Ukrainian authorities on the allocation of the third tranche through their credit program. “Discussions will cover the ... #imf #IMFprogramforUkraine #IMFtranche
The US will provide $522M for Ukraine energy projects, but there are conditions. These funds are intended for the restoration of damaged infrastructure, strengthening the stability of the power system and its protection against air attacks, establishing distributed gas and green e... #Energoatom #EnergyInfrastructure #UkraineENergySystem #USsupportsUkraine
Germany might provide Ukraine with Taurus rockets after the US sends ATACMS, and Britain promises to train 30,000 Ukrainian fighters by the end of the year. As BILD writes, the German government has been discussing the possibility of supplying Ukraine with long-range German Taurus cruise missiles for several months, and the US decision to send ATACMS miss... #ATACMS #GrantShapps #MilitaryAidforUkraine #TaurusMissile #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Ukraine will receive a small batch of long-range ATACMS missiles from the US, and the first batch of Abrams tanks will arrive this week. US President Joe Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Washington would hand over a small number of long-range ATACMS missiles, according to US officials familiar with the nego... #ATACMS #JoeBiden #LongRangeMissiles #TanksAbrams #WeaponsforUkraine #Zelenskyy
Ukraine has expanded the Free Trade Agreement with Canada and will receive another $500M in military aid. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have signed an updated Free Trade Agreement. The expanded agreement includes additional positions regarding the liber... #CanadaMilitaryAid #CanadaUkraineFreetrade #F16training #JustinTrudeau #Zelenskyy
Washington demands an explanation from Warsaw regarding the suspension of military support to Ukraine. According to Bloomberg, recent disagreements among the allies did not lead to a rupture of the unity between members of the coalition that supports Ukraine, but Washington is waiting for a clear state... #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATO #PolandUkraine #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
The European Commission recommends starting negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU in October. However, the entry process is expected to require several years, according to Bloomberg. Once EU leaders approve the EC recommendation, Ukraine will begin completing reforms and bringing the country i... #AssociationwithEU #EUexpansion #UkraineEU
Ukraine and the EU will meet regarding the agricultural dispute on September 28. Poland has put forward conditions, and the Prime Minister of Romania will travel to Kyiv. The European Commission will hold the next coordination platform meeting to resolve the Ukrainian agricultural... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis #GrainExportControl #MarcelCiolacu #MiriamGarciaFerrer #Ukrainiangrain
Ukraine has received $31B in international aid this year and hopes to receive more help. As Deputy Minister of Economy Denys Uliutin stated at the regional economic forum, with these funds Ukraine can finance basic needs, especially non-military, and in particular, the remuneration of civ... #DenysShmyhal #DenysUliutin #financialaidforUkraine #SupportUkraine #UkraineBudget
The US announces a $325M security aid package for Ukraine, while Warsaw is winding down armed support for Kyiv. US President Joe Biden will announce a $325M military aid package to Ukraine during the visit of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Washington. The aid package will include a second tranche of cluster m... #ATACMS #HimarsForUkraine #PiotrMuller #USmilitaryAid #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
The US Congress has found a compromise to finance aid to Ukraine. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the US House of Representatives announced that they had agreed to a framework for legislation providing temporary funds that would allow continued aid to Ukraine bey... #financialaidforUkraine #JoeBiden #JohnKirby #UScongress #USsupportsUkraine #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The US finds a way to transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine. US President Joe Biden may use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977 to gain access to them. The law states that the president may block, regulate, direct, annul, prevent, or... #IEEPA #JanetYellen #RussianAssets #RussianAssetsConfiscation #UkraineRestoration
Grain embargo: five EU countries are ready to compromise with Ukraine, but Moldova protests. Ukraine’s five bordering EU countries are prepared to consider the mechanism of joint verification and approval of supplies proposed by Ukraine, Ukrainian Trade Representative Taras Kachka said.... #agroexportukraine #GrainEmbargo #GrainExportControl #TarasKachka #WTO
Romania and Slovakia agreed to the grain trade system and lifted their bans. Ukraine and Romania will jointly develop a grain export control plan that will help protect Romanian farmers. This work will continue for the next 30 days. In particular, the Ukrainian side offered th... #agroexportukraine #Farmers #GrainEmbargo #GrainExportControl #Ukrainiangrain #WTO
US President Joseph Biden has called on world leaders to support Ukraine and prevent hasty negotiations with the aggressor. Biden said that a firm stance against Russia’s aim to seize a large swath of land will deter future incursions into independent countries. The US leader warned that Russia is betting that the wo... #JoeBiden #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Poland threatens to reduce support and expand the ban on imports from Ukraine, and Ukrainian farmers demand harsh measures against countries with extended restrictions. The Polish Minister of EU Affairs said that Poland may reduce its support to Ukraine due to the crisis arising over importing agricultural products from Ukraine. In his arguments, he referred to the v... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis #GrainEmbargo #UkrainePolandTrade #WTO
Bulgaria will ban Ukrainian sunflower seeds, Slovakia considers the export control system acceptable, and Ukraine expects to expand its access to Baltic ports. Bulgaria will stop importing sunflower seeds from Ukraine soon, said Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Mykola Denkov, after negotiations with farmers protesting Ukrainian agricultural imports. However, the ... #agroexportukraine #DenysShmyhal #EvikaSilina #GrainEmbargo #JozefBires #NikolaiDenkov
Zelenskyy at the UN General Assembly: Russia is weaponizing food and committing genocide by taking Ukrainian children to Russia. During his remarks to the United Nations General Assembly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of weaponizing the global food supply in its war in Ukraine. He said that in addition ... #RussiaWarCrimes #UkrainianChildrenDeportation #UNGeneralAssembly #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
New weapons and a coalition result from the 15th Ramstein. Germany will provide Ukraine with a new €400M military aid package. It will include high explosive ammunition, mortar rounds, rockets, armored vehicles, and demining systems. However, the provision of... #F16 #LeopardBattleTanks #LloydAustin #MilitaryAidforUkraine #Ramsteinmeeting #WeaponsforUkraine
The EU is against simplified accession for Ukraine, even if Kyiv agrees to negotiate with Russia to end the war. As stated by the European Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton, joining the EU is a long process, within which the candidate country must modify its infrastructure and take other measures,... #AssociationwithEU #ThierryBreton #UkraineEU #WarinUkraine
Ukraine will file a lawsuit in response to unilateral export restrictions and ban imports from Poland, which might block Ukraine’s entry into the EU. Kyiv will file a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization concerning the refusal of Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia to lift their bans on Ukrainian agricultural products, said trade representative of U... #agroexportukraine #GrainEmbargo #RobertTelus #UkraineEU #WTO
The EU is preparing the 12th package of sanctions against Russia. In October, EU member states will start discussions on a new package of sanctions against Russia, including a ban on diamond trade, writes Bloomberg. The publication’s sources suggest that the E... #RussianAssets #RussianCentralBank #Russiandiamonds #SanctionsAgainstRussia #UkraineReconstruction
Russia has blocked repatriating $18B in dividends from Western companies. Companies could not withdraw approximately $18B by the end of 2022, writes the FT. “Tens of billions of dollars are stuck in Russia. And there is no way to get them out,” the general direc... #Dividends #ForeignCompanies #RussianMarket #WesternCompaniesInRussia
While the EU is discussing and protesting Ukrainian grain, Ukraine has devised a way to increase its Black Sea exports. The Minister of Agriculture of Spain, Luis Planas Puchades, said that any EU member state’s unilateral ban on importing Ukrainian grain is illegal. The European Commission must determine whether... #agroexportukraine #ConstantaPort #DanubePorts #GrainEmbargo #LuisPlanasPuchades #Ukrainiangrain
Which international partners will help Ukraine in 2024? According to the draft budget for next year, Ukraine will receive: $9B in macro-financial assistance from the EU, an IMF loan under the EFF program that will amount to $5.4B, a $2B loan from the Inter... #EFFprogram #financialaidforUkraine #IMFaid #SupportUkraine #UkraineBudget
The EC has rescinded the Ukrainian grain embargo, but unilateral restrictions will remain. The European Commission concluded that market violations in five EU border countries have been eliminated through the Coordination Platform’s work and the temporary grain embargo. At the same ti... #agroexportukraine #ConstantaPort #GrainEmbargo #Ukrainiangrain
Ukraine and Korea have agreed on preferential loans for projects with participation from Korean companies. An intergovernmental agreement on loans from the Economic Development and Cooperation Fund (EDCF) was signed between the two countries in the presence of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Korean M... #SouthKoreaAid #WonHeeRyong #YoonSukYeol #YuliyaSvyridenko #Zelenskyy
Ukraine is closer to receiving ATACMS and Taurus long-range missiles. Thus, WSJ sources in the Biden administration reported that the possibility of providing a limited number of these weapons is being considered, which could reduce the Pentagon’s concerns about t... #ATACMS #LongRangeMissiles #TaurusMissile #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Ten Abrams tanks and ten M113 armored vehicles are on the way to Ukraine; Germany is working to provide IRIS-T, and Canada is allocating $24.5M to link the air defense of Ukraine. According to Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security Council, Ukraine will soon receive some of the tanks promised by the US. As well, Belgium is gathering the first batch of 10 modernized... #IRISTdefensesystem #M113 #MilitaryAidforUkraine #OleksiyDanilov #OmidNuripour #TanksAbrams
Next year, Ukraine will once again seek $15B for rapid recovery. In 2024, Ukraine will need from $10 to $15B for quick recovery, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said. He specified that financing of the Recovery Fund from the state’s budget for the next year is n... #DenysShmyhal #RussianAssetsConfiscation #UkraineEconomy #UkraineRecovery
Ukraine is preparing to attract a $1.25B grant from the United States. As part of the World Bank’s PEACE in Ukraine public expenditure support project, the state’s budget will receive a $1.25B grant from the US. As noted by the Ministry of Finance, the funds ... #GrantsforUkraine #PeaceInUkraine #UkraineBudget #USsupportsUkraine #worldbank
The Pentagon tightens control over military aid to Kyiv. The decision to create a new monitoring team comes as more and more Republicans are calling for increased oversight, although these calls are not unanimous, CNN writes. The inspector general of the US... #MilitaryAidAudit #Pentagon #USmilitaryAid
Bulgaria advocates for the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports after September 15. The National Assembly of Bulgaria has decided to support the lifting of the ban on the importation of Ukrainian agricultural products after September 15. The Minister of Agriculture of the country, Ky... #agroexportukraine #GrainEmbargo #IhorZhovkva #KyryllVatev #Ukrainiangrain
The EU looks to transfer Belarusian assets for the restoration of Ukraine. According to a document adopted by the European Parliament, deputies believe it is necessary to find legal ways to seize the Belarusian leadership’s assets and related Belarusian structures that... #alexanderlukashenko #BelarusianAssets #Putin #SanctionsAgainstBelarus #UkraineRestoration
Ursula von der Leyen: The future of Ukraine, Moldova, and the Western Balkan countries is in the EU. The head of the European Commission called on the EU to formulate a concept for the successful expansion of the block. Von der Leyen also stated the importance of reforming the EU as an institution by... #AssociationwithEU #EUexpansion #EUUkraine #UrsulavonderLeyen
State support for investment projects has been improved. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed an amendments to the law, On state support of investment projects with significant investment in Ukraine, known as the “investment nanny”. The document... #InvestmentNannies #InvestmentsinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Ukraine will launch the Sovereign Fund with strategically critical state-owned enterprises. By the end of the year, the State Property Fund plans to launch the Ukrainian Sovereign Fund (USF). It will include all strategically important state-owned enterprises that will not be subject to priv... #OleksandrFedoryshyn #PrivatizationUkraine #StatePropertyFund #UkraineStateOwnedEnterprises #UkrainianSovereignFund
The US is preparing to provide Ukraine with long-range missiles loaded with cluster bombs. The Biden administration is close to approving the delivery of long-range missiles equipped with cluster bombs to Ukraine, which would allow Kyiv to inflict more significant damage deep into Russian-o... #ATACMS #ClusterBombs #GMLRS #Pentagon #WeaponsforUkraine
Ukraine is preparing for the second revision of its program with the IMF. A review of the EFF program is expected in October, said the head of the Ministry of Finance, Serhii Marchenko, at the EBA Global Outlook meeting. According to the minister, it is necessary to demonst... #EFFprogram #imf #IMFprogramforUkraine #SerhiyMarchenko
The EU will partially finance the International Register of Damages of Ukraine in The Hague. The EU will cover some costs of establishing the register, ordering premises for this institution, and developing a corresponding digital platform, European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders sa... #DamagesRegisterUkraine #DidierReynders #HagueCort #ReparationsForUkraine #WarinUkraine
The framework of the Ukraine Facility will allow for attracting other donors. Developments within the framework of the Ukraine Facility program will become the foundation for further negotiations with a broader range of partner countries and financial organizations. The program... #EUprogramForUkraine #financialaidforUkraine #SupportUkraine #UkraineFacility #YuliyaSvyridenko
The EU will conduct joint defense purchases and include Ukraine. On Tuesday, MEPs supported a decision to strengthen the European defense industry through general procurement (EDIRPA). The new regulation establishes a temporary instrument that will be valid until D... #EDIRPA #EUdefense #EUparliament #UkraineDefensePurchases
A wind power plant, €20M in humanitarian aid and Ukraine’s membership in the EU: the results of the German Foreign Minister’s visit to Kyiv. On September 11, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Annalena Baerbock visited an electric substation near the capital and suggested that Ukraine should use more renewable energy sources. In partic... #AnnalenaBaerbock #AssociationwithEU #ChornobylEnergyProject #DmytroKuleba #WindEnergyUkraine #Zelenskyy
Ukraine expects to receive another $3.3B in budget support from the US by the end of the year. According to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Serhiy Marchenko, the Ministry of Finance is counting on the same amount of financial assistance from the US in 2024 as it received this year. The mini... #financialaidforUkraine #SerhiyMarchenko #UkraineBudget #USsupportsUkraine
Most Europeans support further financial aid to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia. In particular, these positions are supported by 65% and 71% of respondents, respectively. Another 57% believe that the EU should support the purchase and supply of military equipment for Ukraine and t... #financialaidforUkraine #SanctionsAgainstRussia #SociologicalSurvey #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Poland rejects a compromise on its grain embargo after September 15. The Minister of Economic Development and Technology of Poland, Waldemar Buda, said that he would “without hesitation” sign the decree banning the import of Ukrainian grain after September ... #GrainCrisis #GrainEmbargo #UkraineGrainExport #Ukrainiangrain #WaldemarBuda
The European Commission is convening a grain platform, and Ukraine has been invited. In addition to Ukraine, Moldova and five neighboring EU countries will join in discussion on the export of Ukrainian grain, said Miriam Garcia Ferrer, spokeswoman for the EC on Agriculture and Trade. ... #agroexportukraine #GrainEmbargo #MiriamGarciaFerrer #PathsOfSolidarity #Ukrainiangrain
Japan and Luxembourg will cooperate with businesses and reconstruction of Ukraine. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met with Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Yoshimasa Hayashi and representatives from Japanese companies. According to Shmyhal, Japan’s big business is interested... #DenysShmyhal #FranzFayot #JapanAidForUkraine #LuxembourgAidForUkraine #UkraineReconstruction #YoshimasaHayashi
The G20 summit adopted a final declaration without a condemnation of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. The G20 participants called on all countries to adhere to the principles of international law, including territorial integrity, sovereignty, international humanitarian law, and the multilateral system... #G20Summit #OlegNikolenko #WarinUkraine
