Ukraine responds to Russian threats by warning it may attack Russian ships. Ukraine stated that any ships heading to Russian ports might be military targets, a tit-for-tat response to a threat from Moscow that escalates the war’s risk to global food markets. Ukraine has previ... #blacksea #RussianMilitaryShips #WarinUkraine
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 Mykolaiv Nika-Tera Seaport has suffered UAH 1B in losses during the war. Russian troops have attacked the port more than 10 times, Group DF reported. The amount of damages is a preliminary estimate and may be much higher. One of the most significant strikes by the Russians... #MykolaivSeaPort #NikaTera #UkraineExport #WarinUkraine #WarLosses
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
Russia has damaged the grain initiative infrastructure: 60,000 tons of grain was destroyed, and recovery will take at least a year. During the attack on the Odesa region that took place on July 19, Russian missiles hit a grain and oil terminal, damaging tanks and loading equipment in the ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk. The grain i... #ChornomorskSeaPort #MissileAttackOnUkraine #OdesaSeaport #UkraineWarDamages #WarinUkraine
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
The first group of Ukrainian pilots is ready for F-16 training after US approval. The spokesman of the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Yuriy Ignat, announced the readiness of Ukrainian pilots. He clarified that these aviators know English and have mastered foreign ... #F16 #F16training #LockheedMartin #WarinUkraine #YuriyIgnat
Due to the attack on the Crimea Bridge, the Russians have logistical problems. Andriy Yusov, the spokesman of the State Administration of Ukraine, noted that the Russians use Crimea as a large logistics hub. From there, enemy personnel and equipment are moved deep into Ukrainian... #AndriyYusov #CrimeanBridge #CrimeanBridgeDamage #GeorgeBarros #WarinUkraine
Most Ukrainian refugees and internally displaced people still plan to return home. More than 75% of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) still hope to return home. However, the UN reported that only about 15% of them plan to do so soon, the UN reported. At the same time,... #RefugeesFromUkraine #RepatriationInUkraine #UkrainiansAbroad #WarinUkraine
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
Ukrainians are not ready to negotiate with Russia and are against territorial concessions. According to survey results from the Razumkov Center, 86.6% of Ukrainians believe that negotiations on the cessation of hostilities cannot begin until the results of the major counteroffensive are kno... #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #SociologicalSurvey #UkraineCounteroffensive #WarinUkraine
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
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
About 80% of Ukrainian refugees plan to return home. This survey data was made public by a representative of the UN Refugee Agency in Ukraine, Karolina Lindholm Billing. This applies to both internally displaced persons and refugees abroad. Thus, 76% of... #KarolinaLindholmBilling #RepatriationInUkraine #UkraineRefugees #WarinUkraine
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
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
One day of war costs Ukraine €102M in environmental damage, and the total amount has reached €51B. These estimates were shared by the Minister of Environmental Protection of Ukraine, Ruslan Strilets. He clarified that this amount does not include the damage from the Kakhovka HPP disaster. According... #EnvironmentalPollution #KakhovkaHPP #RuslanStrelets #UkraineWarDamages #WarinUkraine
The most devastating Russian attack on Lviv to date killed five people and injured 40. Russia unleashed the most devastating missile barrage to hit the city of Lviv in western Ukraine since the start of the war, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday. The attack killed five peop... #AndriySadovyi #AttackOnLviv #LvivBombings #MissileAttackOnUkraine #WarinUkraine
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
Russia has withdrawn troops from all regions to contain Ukraine’s counteroffensive. British intelligence has reported that to restrain the counteroffensive of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, Russia withdrew military formations from all over the country. According to sources within Bri... #RussianTroops #UkraineCounteroffensive #WarinUkraine
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
Ukraine has caught up with Russia’s tank numbers. According to Bloomberg, new data on military aid to Ukraine highlights a significant change in the balance of heavy weapons on the nation’s battlefields after 500 days of war. The Ukraine Support Trac... #BattleTanks #HeavyWeapons #OryxGroup #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
How military risk insurance will cover investment in Ukraine. When a person insures property against risk, they make payments to the company that are directly proportional to the probability of the risk event occurring. If the risk is realized, the insurer cover... #DmytroBoyarchuk #InsuranceUkraine #InvestmentsinUkraine #MilitaryInsurance #MilitaryRiskInsurance #WarinUkraine
The Russians have failed to make any territorial gains since January. Since January of 2023, no matter how much Russians have tried to advance they have not gained any territories except for Bakhmut, where they temporarily took some territory but soon lost it to Ukraine... #DefenseOfBakhmut #HannaMalyar #WarinUkraine
Ukraine’s counteroffensive progress has been slower for multiple reasons. The minefields in southern Ukraine are so dense the troops trying to liberate the area can only advance “tree by tree,” one soldier involved in Kyiv’s counteroffensive reported CNN. He said he’s never... #SupportUkraine #UkraineCounteroffensive #WarinUkraine
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 Armed Forces of Ukraine warn about provocation by the Russians at the Zaporizhzhia NPP. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have officially given notification of Russia’s possible preparation of a provocation in the coming days on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, whic... #NuclearSecurity #WarinUkraine #zaporizhzhiaNPP #ZNPPterroristAttack
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
Ukraine’s Armed Forces have retaken more than 37 km of territory. Ukraine claims to have taken back nine square kilometers of territory in the east and 28.4 square kilometers in the south in the past week, totaling about 14 square miles, according to Hanna Maliar, t... #HannaMaliar #UkraineCounteroffensive #WarinUkraine
Ukraine’s Drone Army destroyed 75 units of enemy equipment during the last week. Strike military units, whose work is provided by the Drone Army, destroyed 75 units of Russian equipment in a week, including nine tanks, said the Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov.... #DroneArmy #DroneProduction #MykhailoFedorov #UkrainianDrone #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
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
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
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
Damages to Ukrainian housing already amount to more than $54B. As of the end of May 2023, the amount of direct damage caused to Ukraine’s housing stock as a result of the full-scale war is more than $54B. According to research by KSE, this is more than a third of... #HousingDamagesUkraine #RealEstateUkraine #UkraineDamages #WarinUkraine
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
Ukraine’s Armed Forces has had some success on the southern frontline in the last 24 hours. Ukraine claimed Sunday it had improved its “tactical position” in its defense against Russia in the south and has achieved “partial success” in its counteroffensive in the Tavr... #Bakhmut #UkraineCounteroffensive #WarinUkraine
Ukraine will lose $8 billion annually due to mined agricultural lands. The revenue losses will result because the land will be idle, researchers say. Experts have estimated that agricultural losses from the full-scale invasion, as of April 24, 2023, amounted to $8.7B, of... #AgroLossesUkraine #agroUkraine #FarmersUkraine #WarinUkraine #WarLosses
The Russian Federation bombed Kyiv during an official visit by a delegation from African countries. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, called the June 16 missile attack on Kyiv proof that Vladimir Putin either does not control the army or is an inadequate leader. The Russian military fir... #AfricanDelegation #MissileAttackOnUkraine #PeaceInUkraine #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The NATO summit in Vilnius will bring Ukraine closer to the Alliance’s standards. During the NATO summit on July 11-12, an aid package designed to bring Ukraine into compliance with the Alliance’s standards within several years will be adopted, said the head of NATO, Jens Sto... #JensStoltenberg #NATOsummit #NATOUkraine #WarinUkraine
Belgium and Spain are transferring armored vehicles to Ukraine, Sweden will train Ukrainians on the JAS 39 Gripen, NATO is increasing its support by €500M, and Germany provides Patriot missiles. On June 16, the Council of Ministers of Belgium approved the 15th aid package for Ukraine. The country will supply Ukrainian forces with M113 tracked, armored personnel carriers. The Swedish governmen... #JensStoltenberg #M113 #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATOUkraine #WarinUkraine
NATO is still working on agreeing on a long-term support plan for Ukraine. Disputes have arisen over how best to guarantee Kyiv’s security before it can join the Alliance. According to Reuters, the Western allies agreed that Kyiv will not be able to join the Alliance during ... #NATOsummit #NATOUkraine #SecurityGuarantees #WarinUkraine
Denmark, with Norway’s support, will transfer thousands of artillery shells to Ukraine and agreed with the Netherlands to deliver 14 Leopard 2 tanks. The country’s Ministry of Defense said the package includes grenades, projectile charges, and gun tubes. “Ukrainians continue to feel a great and urgent need for ammunition to fight agains... #AmmunitionForUkraine #LeopardBattleTanks #MilitaryAidforUkraine #TroelsLundPoulsen #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
