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2 weeks ago | 
eurointegration.com.ua | Ulyana Krychkovska |Richard N. Haass
Belgium will provide Ukraine with an aid package worth €1 billion, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has announced on a visit to Kyiv on 8 April. The prime minister unveiled a new decision to allocate a €1 billion assistance package for Ukraine in 2025. He stated that Belgium will allocate €1 billion annually for defence purposes. De Wever expressed strong interest in establishing Belgian defence production in Ukraine and noted that four relevant contracts had been signed today.
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2 weeks ago | 
eurointegration.com.ua | Ulyana Krychkovska |Richard N. Haass
Ukrainian officials will visit the United States later this week for talks on a new draft agreement on mineral resources. Two Bloomberg sources reported that the Ukrainian delegation will include deputy ministers from Ukraine’s Ministries of Economy and Justice. However, no top-level politicians will be involved, as talks with the administration of US President Donald Trump currently require technical consultations.
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2 weeks ago | 
eurointegration.com.ua | Ulyana Krychkovska |Sergiy Sydorenko |Richard N. Haass
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský is sceptical about Russia's approach to ceasefire talks. As reported by Radio Prague International, European Pravda reports,Lipavský said at the end of a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels that Russia had failed to fulfil even the most elementary and simple things, such as a ceasefire on energy facilities. He said that the criticism from some European countries should not be surprising, as it more or less reflects the Czech point of view.
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2 weeks ago | 
eurointegration.com.ua | Ulyana Krychkovska |Sergiy Sydorenko |Richard N. Haass
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated that US President Donald Trump's administration expects Russia to be ready to end the war. Rubio noted in a statement following a meeting with NATO foreign ministers in Brussels that Trump wants to end the Russo-Ukrainian war as soon as possible. He is confident that the United States will find out "soon enough, in a matter of weeks, not months, whether Russia is serious about peace or not". "Here's what the president wanted to do.
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3 weeks ago | 
eurointegration.com.ua | Ulyana Krychkovska |Sergiy Sydorenko |Richard N. Haass
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has amended a government decree, reducing the duration of visa-free stay for Ukrainian citizens in the country. As reported by NewsGeorgia, on 3 April, it was confirmed that the visa-free stay for Ukrainian nationals in Georgia has been reduced from three years to one. "Citizens of Ukraine have the right to enter Georgia without a visa and stay on the territory of the country for a full year," the decree reads.
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1 month ago | 
eurointegration.com.ua | Ulyana Krychkovska |Ian Buruma
Belgian Ambassador to Ukraine Luc Jacobs has stated that Belgium's stance on deploying a military mission to Ukraine is overall "positive" but remains "cautious". Jacobs noted in an interview with the Ukrinform news agency that Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has expressed to the media that while the country views the idea positively, it remains careful at this stage.
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1 month ago | 
eurointegration.com.ua | Ulyana Krychkovska |Ian Buruma
Sweden will allocate assistance to Ukraine to help the country recover, develop and meet urgent humanitarian needs. As reported by Reuters, Sweden's Minister for International Development, Benjamin Dousa, stated that Sweden will allocate over SEK 1.4 billion (approximately US$137.7 million) to Ukraine to support recovery and development efforts and address urgent humanitarian needs.
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1 month ago | 
eurointegration.com.ua | Ulyana Krychkovska |Ian Buruma
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed hope that the United States would be able to intensify pressure on Russia and force it to end the war. He shared this position after receiving a report from the Ukrainian delegation about their meeting with US representatives in Saudi Arabia. Zelenskyy highlighted on X that the conversation between the two delegations was highly constructive. He said that the Ukrainian representatives informed the American side of Ukraine's key positions.
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1 month ago | 
eurointegration.com.ua | Ulyana Krychkovska |Ian Buruma
Defence ministers from five EU countries gathered in Paris on Wednesday 12 March and pledged to take concrete steps to strengthen European defence and provide security guarantees to Ukraine. As reported by Reuters, defence ministers from the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Poland – John Healey, Sébastien Lecornu, Boris Pistorius, Guido Crosetto and Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz – met in Paris.
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1 month ago | 
eurointegration.com.ua | Ulyana Krychkovska |Ian Buruma
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expects the United States to take "strong steps" if Russia rejects the proposals made during the talks in Saudi Arabia. During a conversation with journalists on the results of the talks between Ukraine and the United States in Jeddah, Zelenskyy was asked what the US would do if Russia did not agree to the steps agreed upon during the meeting of the US and Ukrainian delegations in Saudi Arabia, he said he expected "strong steps".
