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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Lili Bayer

Russia-Ukraine war: ‘Don’t worry,’ EU foreign affairs chief tells Ukrainians as ministers focus on Middle East – as it happened

United Kingdom Ukraine Russia United States European Union Grant Shapps Josep Borrell Kyrylo Budanov United Nations North Korea
Ukrainians hold a national flag signed by the commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi and 1,447 Ukrainian soldiers, in the western city of Lviv, as Ukraine celebrates the anniversary of the unification of east and west in 1919.
Ukrainians hold a national flag signed by the commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi and 1,447 Ukrainian soldiers, in the western city of Lviv, as Ukraine celebrates the anniversary of the unification of east and west in 1919. Photograph: Mykola Tys/EPA

Summary of the day

  • Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said he had “very productive talks” with Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, who visited Kyiv today. The Ukrainian leader said the two countries would be able to resolve problematic issues.

  • Tusk underlined that Warsaw and Kyiv would work in a spirit of friendship to resolve differences.

  • Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine’s prime minister, said that he “discussed the free movement of goods across the border” with Tusk and that the sides agreed to resume intergovernmental consultations.

  • EU foreign ministers discussed support to Ukraine.

  • With ministers focusing much of their attention today on the situation in the Middle East, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, insisted that Ukrainians should not worry and that the EU’s support for Kyiv would continue as strong as ever.

  • Borrell also said Ukraine “needs more and faster military support now”.

  • Latvia’s foreign minister, Krišjānis Kariņš, said that “if we do not help Ukraine stop Russia now, it will be only all the more expensive for us later”.

  • Elina Valtonen, Finland’s foreign minister, said there’s a need to fulfil Ukraine’s immediate defence needs, but that Europe also needs to ramp up its defence industry and capabilities.

  • Zelenskiy announced a proposal aimed at granting ethnic Ukrainians and their descendants Ukrainian citizenship.

  • There is movement toward a meeting between Zelenskiy and Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, a senior Ukrainian official said.

  • The UK updated its travel advice “to advise against all but essential travel” to the regions of Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Chernivtsi in western Ukraine. Previously, there was advice against all travel to the whole of Ukraine.

  • The UK has provided satellite photographs of North Korean cargo shipments to Russia to a panel of UN experts.

  • The Kremlin has drawn up a bill to confiscate property and valuables from Ukraine war critics convicted of, among other crimes, “discrediting the Russian army” or calling for foreign sanctions.

Updated

Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine’s prime minister, said that he “discussed the free movement of goods across the border, the development of border infrastructure and energy cooperation” with Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk.

“We agreed to resume intergovernmental consultations,” he said.

Updated

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