War in Ukraine live European Parliament votes to strengthen member

War in Ukraine, live: European Parliament votes to strengthen member states’ defense industries

  • Kim Jong Un and Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Alexander Kozlov met in Russia. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian presidency, said Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un would meet after the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
  • Warsaw announces the maintenance of import restrictions on Ukrainian grain. “Poland will not allow Ukrainian grain to be flooded, no matter what the decision of the Brussels authorities is,” said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Kiev says it is ready to take the matter to the WTO to demand compensation from Poland.
  • According to the Russian Defense Ministry, an attempted Ukrainian attack was foiled this afternoon. Moscow assures that the drone was destroyed by air defense “over the territory of the Belgorod region.”
  • Vladimir Putin believes that the supply of F-16 aircraft and cluster munitions to Ukraine will only “prolong” the conflict. “They will deliver F-16s. Will this change anything? I don’t believe that. “This will only prolong the conflict,” he said at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East.
  • Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that it would postpone a possible announcement of a presidential bid until “the end of the year.” scheduled for 2024. The vote could cement him in power until 2030.
  • Volodymyr Zelensky wants to publish the asset declarations of Ukrainian officials. Ukraine’s president rejected a parliamentary bill that would provide for the confidentiality of civil servants’ asset declarations, he announced on Telegram on Tuesday.
  • The G7 condemns the organization of “falsified “elections”” in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. Four annexed regions are affected by these elections for the appointment of city councils and governors: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson.
  • The European Parliament votes to strengthen the defense industry of the member states. The European Parliament’s elected representatives voted on the text of a regulation with a budget of 300 million euros that would allow at least three member states to receive funds for the joint purchase of weapons or ammunition, the parliament said.
  • Denmark will provide another 777 million euros to help Ukrainewhich is primarily intended to finance air defense equipment, ammunition and tanks, the Defense Ministry said.
  • Romania is building air raid shelters on the border with Ukraine. The army has started building two concrete shelters to “protect the population” in the town of Plauru, the Defense Ministry wrote in a press release.

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