The US may approve the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine this week. According to CBS News, the US is already studying the possibility of fulfilling Ukraine’s long-standing request for cluster munitions to help meet the military’s high demand for ammunition... #ClusterBombs #MilitaryAidforUkraine #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
The Parliament of Bulgaria supports Ukraine’s membership in NATO. During President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Bulgaria, the People’s Assembly of Bulgaria voted for a declaration of support for Ukraine’s membership in the North Atlantic Alliance... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine #UkrainianPeaceFormula #WarinUkraine
German political party criticizes plans to sell fighter jets to Saudi Arabia instead of Ukraine. The German government intends to export 48 Eurofighter fighters to Saudi Arabia while refusing to supply combat aircraft to Ukraine. According to Bild, although the Bundeswehr owns 138 Eurofighter Jet... #AntonHofreiter #Eurofighter #FighterJetsToUkraine #GermanyMilitaryAid #RobinWagener #WarinUkraine
The British Commander in Chief rejects criticism about Ukraine’s slow offensive. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Great Britain, Tony Radakin, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s main blow in the counter-offensive operations is yet to come, rejecting accusat... #MilitaryAidforUkraine #TonyRadakin #UkraineCounteroffensive #WarinUkraine
Western diplomats: Ukraine needs a roadmap to join NATO as quickly as possible. Forty-six Western experts, military personnel, and diplomats including former US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Bigen and Special Representative of the US State Department for Ukraine, Kurt Volker,... #AssociationwithNATO #KurtVolker #NATOsummitVilnius #StephenBigen #UkraineNATO
The EU must invest an extra €700B annually to shift away from Russian fossil fuels. According to a draft report from the bloc’s executive arm, the European Union must invest an additional €700B a year to green the economy and shut out cheap Russian fossil fuels. Most of that fi... #GreenEnergyEU #RESinvestments #RussianFossilFuels #UrsulavonderLeyen
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday that Ukrainian forces have proceeded in a very precise and well-organized way so far in the war. Speaking at a joint press conference with Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, Scholz said he “never expected that everything would change from one day to the next” but added the Ukrain... #MarcelCiolacu #OlafScholz #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
The German opposition has called for the support of Ukraine’s NATO membership. Germany’s main political opposition force, the CDU/CSU alliance, is calling on the federal government to support the prospect of Ukraine’s membership in NATO ahead of the Vilnius summit, r... #AssociationwithNATO #GermanCDU/CSU #NATOsummitVilnius #NATOUkraine
The OSCE recognizes Russia as a sponsor of terrorism and Wagner as a terrorist group. The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly recognized the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism and the Russian Wagner Group as a terrorist organization. Yevgenia Kravchuk, a member of the Ukraini... #OSCE #RussiaSponsorOfTerrorism #RussiaTerroristState #WagnerGroup
Imagining the EU without Ukraine, Moldova, and the Western Balkans is impossible. The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, once again emphasized support for the expansion of the EU and assistance to Kyiv in confronting Russia’s full-scale aggression. During ... #EUmembership #EUUkraine #UrsulavonderLeyen
NATO: Ukraine has the right to conduct a cautious counteroffensive. Landmines and other obstacles complicate Ukraine’s counterattack against Russian forces, so the Ukrainian troops are right to proceed cautiously, said the head of the NATO Military Committee, Ad... #RobBauer #UkraineCounteroffensive #WarinUkraine
The International Centre for the Prosecution of Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine has started operations. Yesterday, the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA) began its operations in the Hague, hosted by the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Co... #HagueCort #ICPA #RussiaWarCrimes #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy is afraid of losing Ukraine’s bipartisan support in the US. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he’s fears the loss of Ukraine’s bipartisan support from the US following what he called “dangerous messages coming from some Republicans... #MikePence #USelections #USsupportsUkraine #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The EU will tax profits on frozen Russian Central Bank assets. EU leaders are backing plans that would impose a windfall tax on profits generated by more than €200B in Russian Central Bank assets to aid Ukraine’s reconstruction and will seek political support fro... #RussianAssetsConfiscation #RussianCentralBank #UkraineReconstruction #UrsulavonderLeyen
Ukraine has a high chance of receiving long-range ATACMS soon. The United States is close to making a decision whether or not to provide Ukraine with ATACMS, a long-range tactical missile system, reported the WSJ. However, according to European and US officials, ... #ATACMS #MilitaryAidforUkraine #USmilitaryAid #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
The IMF approves a decision to allocate $890M to Ukraine. The IMF approved the decision to allocate another tranche to Ukraine within the framework of the extended financing program in the amount of $890 million. “The Executive Board of the IMF complet... #EFFprogram #financialaidforUkraine #imf #IMFaidforUkraine
The head of the British Ministry of Defense advocates Ukraine’s simplified accession to NATO. British Defense Minister Ben Wallace believes that Ukraine should be able to “skip” the NATO Membership Action Plan on its way to joining the Alliance, reported SKY News. “I think we... #AssociationwithNATO #BenWallace #JamesCleverley #NATOsummitVilnius #UkraineNATO
Estonia: Ukraine must fulfill 100% of the criteria for the start of EU membership negotiations. The head of the Estonia’s government, Kaja Kallas, said that Ukraine will not receive “any discounts” on the way to the EU and must fulfill all the criteria for the start of accession nego... #AssociationwithEU #EUmembership #KajaKallas #LarsLückeRasmussen #RobertaMetsola #UkraineEU
Macron: NATO should shape the perspective of Ukraine’s accession. On Wednesday, June 28, French President Emmanuel Macron stated the need for the Vilnius NATO summit to form a concrete path to Ukraine’s membership in the Alliance. “We will have to determ... #AssociationwithNATO #EmmanuelMacron #NATOsummit #NATOUkraine
Zelenskyy welcomes the presidents of Poland and Lithuania to Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed security issues with the Presidents of Poland, Andrzej Duda, and Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, including the military actions at the front, preparations for the N... #AndrzejDuda #AssociationwithNATO #GitanasNauseda #UkrainianPeaceFormula #Zelenskyy
Poland agrees to cancel the agricultural embargo of Ukraine. The President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, said during his visit to Kyiv that he believes that Ukraine and the EU should restore regular trade without restrictions, which were introduced earlier this year... #agroexportukraine #AndrzejDuda #GrainEmbargo
Ukraine has successfully fulfilled all three prerequisites for joining NATO. Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that Ukraine expects to receive guarantees that it will be invited to join the Alliance after the end of the war with Russia at the July NATO summit in Vilnius, ... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummit #NATOUkraine #OleksiyReznikov #WarinUkraine
The European Act on joint ammunition procurement will be adopted at the beginning of July. The Act in Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP), designed to increase the capabilities of the European defense industry to replenish EU arsenals and to continue the supply of artillery ammunition t... #AmmunitionFactory #AmmunitionForUkraine #RobertaMetsola
Reznikov: Ukraine’s main army reserves have not been used in the counteroffensive. According to Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov, these reserves include most brigades recently trained in Western countries and equipped with modern NATO tanks and armored vehicles. He added the lib... #OleksiyReznikov #UkraineCounteroffensive #WarinUkraine
Only a few countries have taken a cautious position regarding Ukraine’s accession to NATO. The Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Olha Stefanishyna, stated that “a small number” of countries are not ready to give Ukraine more specific promises than... #AssociationwithNATO #NATOsummit #NATOUkraine #OlgaStefanishyna #UkraineNATOCouncil
Hungary continues to oppose grain export from Ukraine and its membership in the EU. The Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, is concerned about the accelerated pace of Ukraine’s EU membership process and the possible lifting of the Ukrainian grain export ban by the EU after... #agroexportukraine #AssociationwithEU #GrainCrisis #HungaryVeto #UkraineEU #VictorOrban
The ECB urges banks to quicken their exit from the Russian Market. The European Central Bank is pushing lenders from the region that still have operations in Russia to accelerate plans to shrink or exit units in the market after President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale ... #AndreaEnria #ECB #ForeignCompaniesInRussia #RaiffeisenbankRussia #RussianMarket
Ukraine has already received $22B from the World Bank and donor countries. Before the start of the full-scale war the World Bank mobilized $34B to support Ukraine, over $22B of which Kyiv has already received. This was discussed during a working visit to Washington by the Mi... #AnnaBjerde #AntonellaBassani #financialaidforUkraine #SerhiyMarchenko #WorldBankGroup
The US will announce a new $500M aid package for Ukraine. The United States plans to announce a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $500M on Tuesday, signaling the US’ determination to help Ukraine as Moscow deals with an attempted mutiny by the... #Bradley #HimarsForUkraine #Stryker #UkraineCounteroffensive #USmilitaryairforUkraine #WarinUkraine
The EU has increased the upper weapon financing limit for Ukraine. The Council of the EU passed a decision to increase by €3.5B the upper limit of financing for the European Peace Fund, from which compensation is paid to countries for weapons transferred to Ukraine, ... #EuropeanPeaceFund #JosepBorrell #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Germany opposes the plan to transfer profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine. Germany has spoken out against the European Commission’s plan to give Ukraine profits from frozen Russian assets, saying the hasty move could cause legal or financial risks. According to the FT,... #MarcoBuschmann #ReparationsForUkraine #RussianAssets #RussianCentralBank #UkraineReconstruction
The EU has adopted the eleventh package of sanctions against Russia in response to the war against Ukraine. According to the new sanctions package, the EU will expand cooperation with third countries to prevent sanctions circumvention. If the efforts do not achieve the desired result, the European Council m... #circumventionOfSanctions #DruzhbaPipeline #RussianOil #RussianOilSanctions #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Ukraine sums up the results of the recovery conference in London. During the conference’s final panel, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal emphasized four crucial messages. Ukraine will become a member of the EU. Russia must pay for its crimes and destruct... #ConferenceLondon2023 #DenysShmyhal #UkraineRecovery #UkraineRecoveryConference
URC2023: Ukraine will receive $1.75B from the WB, €600M from the EBRD, and £62M from Britain for the newly created Energy Fund. Ukraine and the World Bank signed a new agreement on ways to attract $500M in credit financing under Britain’s guarantee. According to the head of the Ukrainian government, Denys Shmyhal, the funds wi... #ConferenceLondon2023 #DenysShmyhal #ebrd #energyukraine #InnovateUkraine #UkraineRecoveryConference
Congress members have urged Biden to provide ATACMS to Ukraine. The US House Foreign Affairs Committee called on the Biden administration to immediately give Ukraine ATACMS missiles. The chairman of the committee, Republican congressman Michael McCaul, said in his... #ATACMS #LongRangeMissiles #MichaelMcCall #StormShadow #WeaponsforUkraine
Ukraine Recovery Conference 2023 has led to more support from allies. The US will provide more than $1.3B for Ukraine’s reconstruction, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. This year, the French government will allocate €40M, which will be used to rebuild critical... #AnnalenaBaerbock #AnthonyBlinken #CatherineColonna #ConferenceLondon2023 #EIB #UkraineRecoveryConference #UrsulavonderLeyen
Britain announces a $3B multi-year aid package to Ukraine and a military risk insurance mechanism. According to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, businesses, governments, and financial institutions should join forces to support Ukraine. “Within three years, we will provide $3B in credit gua... #InvestmentsinUkraine #MilitaryRiskInsurance #RishiSunak #UKaidforUkraine
Ukraine is preparing a mechanism for confiscating $500B in Russian assets frozen by the West. During the speech at URC2023, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Ukraine proposes to create a universal system under which the internationally recognized aggressor will pay for its crimes. Th... #ConferenceLondon2023 #DenysShmyhal #RussianAssets #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineRecovery #UkraineRecoveryConference
The EU is preparing a plan to transfer revenues from frozen Russian Federation assets to Ukraine. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, promised to present it before the “summer vacation” at the Conference on the Reconstruction of Ukraine in London. She noted ... #financialaidforUkraine #RussianAssets #RussianAssetsConfiscation #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineRecovery #UrsulavonderLeyen
Australia directed only 0.5% of surplus profits from the war to help Ukraine. Among the G20 countries, Australia is a minor donor to Ukraine, even though it is the leading indirect economic beneficiary of the war. According to Bloomberg, since the war in Ukraine began the sharp... #AustraliaAidForUkraine #AustraliaGovernment #MilitaryAidforUkraine #SupportUkraine
The Pentagon has overestimated the cost of weapons supplied to Ukraine by $6.2B, so it has more money for further assistance. The Pentagon’s audit of US military aid to Ukraine revealed a $6.2B discrepancy between the estimated and actual cost of the equipment, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said. She explained tha... #MilitaryAidforUkraine #Pentagon #SabrinaSingh #USmilitaryAid
What Ukraine expects from the conference in London. At the Conference on the Recovery of Ukraine in London, attention will be focused on three main aspects: rapid recovery, the attraction of private investment, and interregional cooperation, noted Prim... #ConferenceLondon2023 #DenysShmyhal #UkraineRecovery #UkraineRecoveryConference
The EU will provide Ukraine with a €50B, four-year financial support package, but there are conditions. This commitment will give Ukraine more certainty in its finances and should encourage other allies, primarily the US and Great Britain, to make similar long-term commitments. The money will be used to... #EUfinancialAid #financialaidforUkraine #UrsulavonderLeyen
Zelenskyy has restarted the “big privatization” in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Law No. 8250 on optimizing the activities of the State Property Fund (SPFU) and restoring “large-scale privatization”. The document envisages expanding... #BigPrivatization #PrivatizationinUkraine #StatePropertyFund #Zelenskyy
Ukraine has fulfilled two of the seven conditions to begin negotiations on joining the EU. According to Reuters, the EU will present a report recognizing Ukraine’s fulfillment of two of the seven conditions for starting negotiations on EU membership this week. The European community w... #AssociationwithEU #ReformsinUkraine #UkraineEU
The US State Department says that the transfer of the F-16 to Ukraine will take months. At the same time, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Military and Political Affairs, Stanley Brown, clarified that although the United States has not yet made its decision on the provision... #F16 #F16training #FighterJetsToUkraine #StanleyBrown
Denmark might transfer F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine soon. Denmark is preparing to transfer F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine with the US’ consent, said the head of the country’s Ministry of Defense, Troels Lund Poulsen. Denmark has 43 F-16 fighters, 30 of w... #F16 #FighterJetsToUkraine #LockheedMartin #TroelsLundPoulsen
Despite sanctions, Russia is buying American sniper rounds and other ammunition from the EU, and electronics used in Russian missiles are produced in the US. As Politico writes, Russian-sanctioned companies Promtechnologiya, which manufactures Orsis T-5000 rifles, and Tetis purchased hundreds of thousands of cartridges manufactured by the American company,... #CartridgesForRussia #circumventionOfSanctions #Hornady #McFaulYermak #SanctionsAgainstRussia
The EU is still working out a mechanism for using Russian assets for Ukraine. As a representative of the European Commission, Christian Wiegand, explained there are two different elements: private assets and state assets. The amount of frozen private assets is at a €24.1B equiv... #ChristianWiegand #RussianAssets #RussianAssetsConfiscation #RussianCentralBank #UkraineRecovery
The EBRD will support several sectors of Ukraine’s economy. EBRD president Odile Renaud-Basso said that several memoranda and projects will be signed into effect this week at a conference on Ukraine’s restoration – designed to strengthen energy security and su... #ebrd #InvestmentsinUkraine #KakhovkaHPP #OdileRenaudBasso #UkraineEconomy
