The US and its allies are working with Ukraine on alternative routes to deliver grain. The United States and its partners are working with Kyiv on alternative land routes to deliver critical grain to the world after Russia pulled out of the agreement that had permitted Ukrainian grain t... #agroexportukraine #GrainAgreement #GrainPrices #JohnKirby #Ukrainiangrain
Businesses ask the governments of Ukraine and Poland to quickly sign the common border agreement. Several business associations have called on the governments of Ukraine and Poland to promote the development of existing checkpoints and the construction of new joint checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Pol... #EBA #UkraineForeignTrade #UkrainePolandBorder #UkrainePolandCheckpoints
Five ports in the Baltic States are ready to participate in Ukrainian grain exports. The Baltic countries are prepared to provide the capacity of five large ports in their territories to participate in the safe export of Ukrainian grain to global markets, said the Minister of Foreign ... #agroexportukraine #BalticWay #GabrieliusLandsbergis #GrainAgreement
France and Germany are against the further ban on Ukrainian grain imports. At a meeting of EU agriculture ministers on Tuesday, France and Germany expressed their opposition to the further extension of the ban on Ukrainian grain imports after September 15, which is insisted ... #agroexportukraine #GrainEmbargo #MiriamGarciaFerrer #Ukrainiangrain
The United States announces a new $400M assistance package for Ukraine. On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a new $400M tranche of security assistance for Ukraine, including air defense munitions and armored vehicles. The aid includes “air defense m... #AnthonyBlinken #GrainAgreement #Stryker #USmilitaryAid #WarinUkraine
Ukraine will receive $244M to purchase demining equipment. Several donor countries will provide $244M to Ukraine for the purchase of special equipment for demining liberated territories, said Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko. The donors committed to helpi... #demining #DeminingUkraine #MilitaryAidforUkraine #YuliyaSvyridenko
Ukraine plans to become the largest European arms producer. Ukraine has ambitions to become the largest arms manufacturer in Europe and can already talk about its first successes as a missile manufacturer, said Minister of Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamysh... #AlexanderKamyshin #ArmsProductionUkraine #Brave1 #WeaponsProduction
Ukraine is looking for a compromise for grain exports; further embargoes in the EU is unacceptable. Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a meeting regarding the export of Ukrainian agricultural products against the background of Poland’s intentions to close its border for Ukrainian grain after Septem... #agroexportukraine #GrainEmbargo #Zelenskyy
The EU’s plan to expand the production of ammunition and missiles has come into effect. The Act to Support Ammunition Production (ASAP), legislation developed in the EU to increase ammunition and missile production, became effective on Monday, 23 July. ASAP is designed to increase the EU... #ASAP #EUmilitaryAid #WeaponsforUkraine #WeaponsProduction
NATO supports Ukraine and is considering options to free grain supplies. NATO strongly condemns Moscow’s attempt to turn food into a weapon and reaffirms its support for Ukraine for “as long as it takes” said the Secretary General of the Alliance, Jens St... #GrainAgreement #GrainExportUkraine #JensStoltenberg #UkraineNATOCouncil #Zelenskyy
Sweden will allocate €522.6M for restoration projects in Ukraine. The Swedish government presented a cooperation strategy for reconstruction and reforms in Ukraine for 2023-2027, and plans to allocate 6B Swedish kroner (€522.6M) for reconstruction projects, reported... #JohanForssell #SwedenUkraine #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineRecovery
Ukraine has completed the nationalization of Sense Bank. Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance completed the nationalization of Sense Bank JSC from foreign stakeholders controlled by Russian businessmen, including Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven. Sense Bank was... #AlfaBank #MykhayloFridman #NationalizationOfBank #PetroAven #SenseBank
Ukraine hopes to resolve the situation with the EU grain embargo, and the US promises to help with grain export. Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland Vasyl Zvarych believes that the problem with exporting Ukrainian grain to Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania should not be resolved by bans but by bilater... #DenysShmyhal #GrainEmbargo #GrainExportUkraine #VasylZvarych
The Pentagon has officially provided Ukraine with a new $1.3B aid package and is preparing an additional package for $400M. On July 19, the United States officially announced the allocation of an additional $1.3B for a new defensive aid package for Ukraine. It contains NASAMS air defense systems and munitions, artillery sh... #HimarsForUkraine #NASAMS #TOWantiTankMissiles #USmilitaryairforUkraine #WarinUkraine
The EU, the US, and other Ukrainian partners continue to intensify the sanctions pressure on Russia. According to the Council of the EU, the EU has extended its sanctions until January 31, 2024. The restrictions consist of a wide range of sectoral measures, including limitations on trade, finance, te... #circumventionOfSanctions #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Ramstein results: M113 armored personnel carriers from Benelux, Leopard tanks from Spain, and €24M in defense support from Lithuania. According to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov, the Ukraine Defense Contact Group demonstrated strong support for Ukraine through its partners. The priority for the July 18 meeting ... #M113 #MilitaryAidforUkraine #OleksiyReznikov #Ramsteinmeeting #WarinUkraine
Moscow has declared all vessels bound for Ukrainian ports to be military cargo carriers; Zelenskyy wants negotiations on convoys to export grain by sea. From July 20, all ships bound for Ukrainian ports will be considered potential military cargo carriers. And the countries under whose flags these vessels will be regarded as “involved” in ... #GrainAgreement #GrainExportUkraine #RecepTayyipErdoğan #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The grain corridor: The EU seeks to liberate the Black Sea, the UN considers a range of ideas, and Lithuania and Croatia offer help. “It is necessary to unblock the Black Sea, to prevent a food crisis in the world’s most vulnerable countries, and to continue exporting Ukrainian products,” said President of the Eur... #GrainAgreement #GrainExportUkraine #StephaneDujarric #Ukrainiangrain #UrsulavonderLeyen
The EU launches another €20B special fund for Ukraine. The EU is working on creating a special fund to help the Ukrainian army over the next four years, worth up to €20B, reported Politico. This proposal would not involve direct payments to the EU for arm... #EUsupportforUkraine #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
The United States will provide Ukraine with a new $1.3B military aid package. According to a US official, the weapons package includes anti-aircraft defense systems, anti-drone systems, attack drones, and ammunition, reported Reuters. The US is using funds under the Ukraine Sec... #USAI #USmilitaryairforUkraine #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Ukraine and its allies are looking for ways to restart the grain agreement. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the US and its partners will look for ways to replace the Black Sea Grain Initiative, but finding an alternative on the same scale will not be easy. Give... #agroexportukraine #AnthonyBlinken #GrainAgreement #GrainEmbargo #Ukrainiangrain
EU officials will discuss the import of agricultural products from Ukraine this week in Warsaw. A meeting of the ministers of agriculture from the five EU countries where the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain until September 15 is in effect will take place on July 19. EU officials will discus... #agroexportukraine #GrainCrisis #GrainEmbargo #MykolaSolsky
Russia has withdrawn from the grain agreement, which it has been sabotaging for a long time. The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytriy Peskov, officially informed Turkey, Ukraine, and the UN about the grain deal’s closure. The Administration of Sea Ports of Ukraine reports that t... #DmytriyPeskov #GrainAgreement #GrainExportUkraine #wheatfutures #WorldWheatPrices
South Korea is increasing its aid to Ukraine to $150M. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol made the corresponding announcement following a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. Korea plans to allocate funds for the infrastructure restoratio... #KakhovkaHPP #SouthKoreaAid #UkraineReconstruction #YoonSukYeol #Zelenskyy
The EU is arguing over the mechanism of using the Russian Federation’s frozen assets for Ukraine’s reconstruction of Ukraine. Differences of opinion arose between the European Commission and the European Central Bank regarding the use of profits from the investment of more than €200B in frozen assets belonging to the Russian... #ECB #EuropeanCommission #RussianAssets #RussianCentralBank #UkraineRecovery
Ukraine is updating the implementation of the BEPS Action Plan to get closer to the OECD and the EU. On July 10-12, Deputy Minister of Finance Svitlana Vorobei led Ukraine’s delegation at the 15th plenary session in Paris of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Platform on BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shift... #BEPSActionPlan #OECD #SvitlanaVorobei #taxreform
Britain was the first European country to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and Ukraine is next. Great Britain has signed an agreement to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The deal will take effect after ratification by all 12 partnership memb... #CPTPP #TransPacificPartnership
Bulgaria provides Ukraine with an armored vehicle defense aid package. The largest one-time package of military assistance from Bulgaria includes 100 units of armored vehicles from the Bulgarian police force’s arsenal, mainly armored personnel carriers. The Bulgari... #BulgariaMilitaryAid #MilitaryAidforUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Reznikov summed up the “weapons” results from the NATO summit: Ukraine will receive €1.5B in support. According to the Minister of Defense, the aid consists of seven packages. The largest is from Germany for €700M, which includes 25 Leopard 1A5 tanks, 40 Marder 1A3 BMPs, 2two Patriot air defense syste... #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATOsummitVilnius #OleksiyReznikov #WarinUkraine
The NATO summit demonstrated Moscow’s failure to achieve its goals that were set when it launched the full-scale war. According to the ISW, the summit demonstrated the extent to which the Russian invasion of Ukraine has undermined the Kremlin’s objectives that led it to start the war. One objective was to prev... #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #WarinUkraine
NATO has published the communiqué from the summit in Vilnius on the evening of July 11. It contains several references to Ukraine’s membership and support, which mostly repeat or expand on the three-element package that Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced. In addi... #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummitVilnius #UkraineNATOCouncil
Zelenskyy met with world leaders in Vilnius: Australia is providing 30 Bushmasters, Germany and the Netherlands are strengthening Ukraine’s air defense, and Canada offers armored vehicles. According to the Ukrainian president, Australia is giving Ukraine 30 Bushmaster armored personnel carriers as part of a new aid package. The total number of Bushmasters provided to Ukraine now reaches... #JustinTrudeau #MarkRutte #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATOsummitVilnius #OlafScholz #RishiSunak #Zelenskyy
Training of Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 will start at the end of summer, and the planes will arrive in 2024. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, announced that during a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, Rutte agreed to start training Ukrainian pilots on Western-style ... #DmytroKuleba #F16 #F16training #MarkRutte #NATOsummitVilnius #Zelenskyy
The EU is preparing a long-term security support plan for Ukraine. The European External Affairs Service has developed a draft plan that recommends that the EU undertake a full package of obligations regarding the security of Ukraine for many years. According to Poli... #SecurityGuarantees #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Germany has decided against creating a repair center for Ukrainian Leopard tanks in Poland. The Ministry of Defense of Germany reported that the Leopard 2 tanks damaged in Ukraine will now be repaired in Germany and perhaps in Lithuania. This applies to the Leopard 2 tanks that have been sup... #LeopardBattleTanks #MilitaryEquipmentRepair #TanksRepair
NATO summit: Ukraine will receive long-range missiles, non-lethal weapons, more support, and training of F-16 pilots. France has decided to transfer long-range missiles to Ukraine. Specifically, these weapons are 50 SCALP missiles, an upgrade from the Storm Shadow already provided by Britain. South Korea has sent a p... #F16training #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATOsummitVilnius #OleksiyReznikov #WarinUkraine
Germany agreed to allocate a $770M weapons package to Ukraine. On Tuesday Germany pledged to send Ukraine a weapons and military package worth €700M ($769.9M), according to the Germany’s Ministry of Defense. In a statement, the country’s defense minis... #BorisPistorius #GermanyMilitaryAid #PatriotSystems #WeaponsforUkraine
During the summit meeting in Vilnius, Biden will try to adjust Zelenskyy’s ambitious plans for NATO. US President Joe Biden will hold meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Vilnius NATO summit on July 11-12. The meeting... #JoeBiden #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #RecepTayyipErdoğan #Zelenskyy
A three-element package for Ukraine was approved at the NATO Summit in Vilnius. According to the Secretary General of the bloc, Jens Stoltenberg, the package includes canceling the Membership Action Plan. However, the members failed to agree on inviting Ukraine to the Alliance. A... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #UkraineNATOCouncil
The Ukrainian government has nationalized billion-dollar assets belonging to Russian oligarchs, with more to come. According to the State Bureau of Investigations, individuals close to Putin are among the owners of these assets. Among them are Arkady and Ihor Rotenberg, Oleg Deripaska, and Yevhen Giner. Thus, the ... #ArkadyRotenberg #Nationalization #OceanPlaza #OlegDeripaska #RussianAssets #RussianOligarchs #YevhenGiner
The gas war with the EU has deprived Russia of $28B in revenue. The loss of the European gas market, which accounted for almost 80% of Gazprom’s exports, will cost the Russian federal budget $28B in tax revenue this year, according to Vygon Consulting. Gazpr... #Gazprom #RussiaBudget #RussiaGasExport #RussianGas
Poland has begun confiscating the assets of Russian oligarchs. Poland has introduced temporary management of Russian oligarch Vyacheslav Kantor’s property in Grupa Azoty, Polish Minister of Development and Technology Waldemar Buda said. “We are elimin... #GrupaAzoty #RussianAssets #RussianOligarchs #VyacheslavKantor #WaldemarBuda
The EU has presented its conditions for the new €50B financing package for Ukraine. The country’s authorities must fulfill several requirements to implement the Financial Instrument for Ukraine (Ukraine Facility) from the EU, which provides financing of up to €50B for four year... #EUfinancialAid #InvestmentsinUkraine #SerhiyMarchenko #UkraineFacility
Ukraine’s NATO package will consist of three elements. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke about these in Vilnius. This package was presented for the first time in Oslo at an informal meeting of foreign ministers from NATO member countries. Acco... #AssociationwithNATO #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine
Ukraine will receive consistent support in Vilnius but will not be invited to join the Alliance. According to Politico, Ukraine will most likely receive promises from NATO countries to continue most of the aid the allies are already providing. In addition, it will be offered “a more permane... #AssociationwithNATO #DmytroKuleba #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine
Almost 90% of Ukrainians want their country to become a NATO member. According to a study by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, most Ukrainians (89%) in all regions of the country favor membership. However, there are also 8% who spoke out against joining th... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOUkraine #SociologicalSurvey
Ukraine wants to shorten its path to NATO, but Germany and the US have other plans. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, the route to the Alliance will be shortened, and some important decisions have already been made. At the same time, the minister added, the... #DmytroKuleba #JensStoltenberg #JoeBiden #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #WarinUkraine
Poland has transferred 10 Mi-24 helicopters to Ukraine, Slovakia will deliver 16 howitzers, and the Czech Republic will provide a simulator for training F-16 pilots. The WSJ reported the recent secret transfer of helicopters. Also, Slovak President Zuzana Caputova announced the transfer of Zuzanna-2 howitzers and their joint production with Ukraine after talks wit... #MI24 #MilitaryAidforUkraine #PetrFiala #Zelenskyy #ZuzanaČaputová
The US has provided Ukraine with a new $800M military aid package including cluster munitions. According to Pentagon Deputy Chairman Colin Kahl, the ammunition that will be delivered to Ukraine will include only those with a percentage of unexploded shells of less than 2.35%. According to the P... #Bradley #ClusterBombs #ColinKahl #OleksiyReznikov #Stryker #USmilitaryairforUkraine #WarinUkraine
The IMF has added four structural benchmarks to the program with Ukraine. These have been added to the updated memorandum, which Ukraine must fulfill to receive the third tranche of aid. Two of them must be completed by the end of September. In particular, the articles of t... #imf #IMFprogramm #IMFStructuralBeacons #ReformsinUkraine
