The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Mission Chief for Ukraine Gavin Gray has positively assessed the efforts undertaken by the government of Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian war to preserve macro-financial stability, and plans to continue discussing further steps to support the country’s economy.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke over the phone with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu in a second call since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A total of 544 settlements have been de-occupied in Kharkiv region since September.
By the end of the year, the European Union will have transferred to Ukraine a tranche of macro-financial assistance in the amount of EUR 9 billion, but EU leaders are already considering how to ensure, together with American partners and international financial institutions, stable monthly financing of Ukraine’s basic needs in the amount of EUR 3-4 billion.
The Russian Federation, which invaded Ukraine with tanks, committing genocide, threatening weapons of mass destruction, and seeking to freeze millions of people, cannot have a veto in the UN and sit at the same table with the G20 leaders.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had a call with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and thanked Germany for the first supplied air defense system.
Russia has involved more than 8,000 mercenaries of the Wagner Group private military company in the war against Ukraine. Most of them are former prisoners.
The National Bank of Ukraine projects that the inflation rate will reach 30% at the end of 2022 but will slow down in the following years.
Permanent representatives of EU member states today agreed on new sanctions against Iran over supplying combat kamikaze drones to Russia that are used for barbaric attacks on Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure facilities.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has informed new Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson about the fight of Ukrainians against the Russian invaders and thanked him for the support provided.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece Nikos Dendias considers Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian cities, killing and injuring innocent people, to be a war crime.