Developments in Ukraine | The fate of Russia’s blocked assets in the West

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the US State Department announced that the US government It has nothing to announce yet about the frozen assets of Russia.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at a news conference last night: Despite the new law that gives the president of the United States the right to decide on confiscation. has frozen Russian assets, Washington officials could not yet express a specific decision on the situation.

Miller noted that the US administration is working to ensure the extension of the Russian asset freeze with its European partners for “Their beneficial use for the benefit of Ukraine” continues.

Previously, Belgium, as the rotating president of the European Union, announced that the permanent representatives of the member states of the European Union will now discuss the use of income from frozen assets. Russia has reached an agreement for military assistance to Kiev. According to him, this budget will be used to support Ukraine, rebuild this country and its military defense. On the same day, Valery Orban, the CEO of the Euroclear Institute, noted that Russia’s frozen assets in the year 2024, it will result in an income of 1.6 billion euros for its investors.

In early May, German Chancellor Olaf Schultz also claimed that EU members are considering a proposal to use 90% of the revenues. Blocked Russia for Ukraine’s military needs, presented in March by EU foreign and defense policy chief Josep Borrell, have been agreed. Follow the war in Ukraine:

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Finland, Poland and the Baltic Sea countries signed an agreement against Russia

The government of Finland announced that this country, together with Poland and the three republics of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, signed a joint agreement in Vilnius, the purpose of which is to strengthen and integrate the monitoring of compliance with the sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russia.

This agreement includes joint measures regarding obligations imposed on producers and exporters of goods, as well as a list of other measures aimed at combating sanctions evasion. For example, exporters have to provide additional documents when exporting goods abroad. In addition, yesterday it became clear that the EU member states intend to introduce by July 2024 the content of the 14th package of sanctions. Agree against Russia. The sanctions package will not include restrictions on the movement of diplomats from Russia to Europe, and there will be no ban on the import of liquefied natural gas, nuclear fuel and aluminum from Russia.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk admitted that NATO troops are present in Ukraine. His statement was published by his office on X social network (formerly Twitter). According to Tusk, the North Atlantic Alliance is currently helping the armed forces of Ukraine as much as possible. The Prime Minister emphasized that without NATO’s help, Ukraine could not defend itself for a long time. “Certainly, for this purpose, a small group of forces, including soldiers, supervisors, engineers and military advisors, are present there.”

Zakharova: Tusk’s words confirm the combined war of the West against Russia

Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry last night to the words of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk who admitted that NATO troops are present in Ukraine, reacted and said: thus they themselves confirm that the Western countries are fighting a combined war against Russia. Stoltenberg: No request from Kiev for The deployment of troops has not arrived in Brussels

Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, claimed in an interview yesterday that the authorities of Kiev have not yet approached Brussels with the request to send the troops of the NATO countries to the conflict zone with Russia.

He said: “NATO has no plans to deploy military forces on the territory of Ukraine.” When I visited Kiev last week, the Ukrainian authorities did not make such a request, they only asked for more support.”

Stoltenberg called on member states to provide military assistance to Kiev. The Secretary General of NATO added: The failures of the Ukrainian armed forces on the front are because NATO did not fulfill what it had promised to this country. It took six months for the US to agree on a new aid package.

Stoltenberg has previously announced that NATO military supplies to Kiev should be made mandatory rather than voluntary. According to him, Brussels intends to play an important role in the coordination and planning of military aid to Ukraine. At the same time, he repeatedly emphasized that the North Atlantic Alliance will not participate in the military conflict in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Appoints Zalogheny as Ambassador to London

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree last night, Army General Valery Zalogheny, Commander The former armed forces of this country appointed him as the plenipotentiary ambassador of Ukraine to the Kingdom of Great Britain. Early yesterday, in a separate ruling, Zelenskiy removed Zalogheny from the right to wear a military uniform for reasons of physical health.

In early March, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine announced the appointment of Zalogeny as ambassador to London. Zelensky then explained that the appointment was due to Zalogeny’s personal desire to work as a diplomat. In late April, it was reported that London had agreed to appoint Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief as its ambassador.

The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, signed a decree dismissing “Sergei Rudi”, the head of the state security department. The relevant decree was published on Zelensky’s website.

Rudi has been the head of this department since 2019. The reasons for his dismissal were not mentioned.

Earlier on May 1, Zelensky fired Ilya Vytyuk, the head of the cyber security department of the Security Service of Ukraine, whose financial corruption was exposed by the media.

In late April, Zelensky also dismissed the commander of the support forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Yakuts.

In recent months, there have been many personnel changes in Kyiv, and many officials Government and military officials were purged.

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