Claire Mills

Nov 8, 2024 | commonslibrary.parliament.uk | Claire Mills |Patrick Butchard |Philip Brien

The Financial Assistance to Ukraine Bill was presented in the House of Commons on 6 November 2024 (Bill 48 of Session 2024–25). The purpose of the bill is to allow the UK Government to provide loans and other financial assistance to the Government of Ukraine specifically arising out of the G7 agreement in June 2024 to extend $50 billion (roughly £38.6 billion) of loans to Ukraine that will be repaid using the profits from sanctioned Russian assets. The .

Sep 25, 2024 | commonslibrary.parliament.uk | Claire Mills

Sanctions and export controls against Russia do not derive from any UN Security Council resolution but are being unilaterally implemented by a coalition, led primarily by the G7 (the US, UK, Canada, Japan, Italy, France and Germany) and the EU, that includes more than 30 countries around the globe and who represent more than 50% of the global economy.

May 16, 2024 | commonslibrary.parliament.uk | Claire Mills

At the request of President Zelenskyy, a Summit on Peace in Ukraine will be held in Switzerland on 15 and 16 June 2024. The aim of the summit is to bring heads of state and government together to try and chart a course for a “just and lasting peace” in Ukraine based upon the principles of the UN Charter and Ukraine’s own ‘Formula for Peace’, which President Zelenskyy presented in November 2020.

Jan 4, 2024 | commonslibrary.parliament.uk | Claire Mills

The UK is one of the leading military donors to Ukraine, alongside the US and Germany. Financial commitmentsTo date, the UK has pledged over £9.3 billion in overall support to Ukraine (PDF), of which £4.6 billion is for military assistance in the financial years 2022/23 and 2023/24.  The Government has not yet allocated funding for 2024/25, although the Prime Minister did confirm on 29 December 2023 the Government’s “intent to continue support Ukraine in 2024”.

Sep 26, 2023 | commonslibrary.parliament.uk | Claire Mills

On 19 September 2023 Azerbaijan launched what it called “an anti-terrorist operation” in Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave in Azerbaijani territory that has a 95% ethnic Armenian population of approximately 120,000 people. Even though the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, it has been mostly governed as a self-declared republic (the Republic of Artsakh), backed by Armenia, since the early 1990s.