According to U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, the country wants to follow the example of Canada and seize the assets of Russians in the U.K. in order to give them to Ukraine. Truss said the initiative would “most probably” need additional legislation.
Russia attacked the city of Khmelnytskyi overnight on April 1, damaging a commercial site and a residential building was damaged by shelling in Lutsk, authorities and media reported.
A Russian An-26 transport aircraft crashed in occupied Crimea late on March 31, Russian Telegram media channels reported, killing 29 military personnel on board.
The European Union will provide an additional 80 million euros ($92 million) in profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas announced on March 31.
Ukraine says Russia deliberately redirected Ukrainian drones toward Finland and the Baltic states in an attempt to provoke tensions and strain Kyiv’s ties with European allies.
The mobile app would be integrated with the current emergency software and be modeled on the system Ukraine uses during Russian drone attacks.
In a letter seen by the Kyiv Independent, EU Commissioner for enlargement Marta Kos outlined 11 reforms that Ukraine failed to complete by their respective deadlines throughout 2025.
Such actions are "not indicative of a broader shift in the U.S. Russia policy," a U.S. Treasury spokesperson told the Kyiv Independent, adding that OFAC regularly updates its sanctions list by adding or removing individuals and entities.
Russia is signaling to the U.S. that it could seize the region by force within that period, and would then demand "different conditions" in negotiations, Zelensky said.
The prosecutor general has not yet approved the extradition requests for Mindich and Tsukerman, according to Abakumov.
Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka attributed the delay to "technical safety procedures."
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