The agreement, signed on April 30, establishes a joint investment fund between Kyiv and Washington and grants the U.S. special access to projects developing Ukraine's natural resources.
Ukraine is considering moving away from the U.S. dollar and closer to the euro as a benchmark for the hryvnia, National Bank Governor Andrii Pyshnyi told Reuters.
The Atesh partisan group claims it disabled communication at several Russian military facilities when it allegedly destroyed equipment at a transformer substation in the village of Mogiltsy in Russia's Moscow Oblast.
A Leopard 2 tank in service with the Ukrainian military undergoing repairs in Lithuania on Dec. 15, 2023. (Lithuanian Defense Ministry/X)
The first Leopard 2 tanks had been repaired in Lithuania and would be sent back to the front lines in Ukraine, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry announced on Dec. 15.
Ukraine has received dozens of German-made Leopard 2 tanks in military support from partners, with many already seeing combat.
Lithuania set up a repair hub for A5 and A6 models damaged in Ukraine, the only European country to do so.
"Having arrived from the frontlines, these tanks are now ready to make an impactful return," the ministry wrote on the social media platform X.
Two repaired Leopard tanks were test-driven on Dec. 15 to showcase the result of the work, the AFP reported.
These tanks are among the first repaired in Lithuania and are expected to reach Ukraine next month.
Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas praised the Lithuanian military and German defense industry for their work on the tanks.
A repair center for other Leopard 2 models has also been opened in Poland, with a batch of tanks arriving in Gliwice earlier in December.
Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He was also volunteering as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukraïner. Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.
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