Italy has frozen Russian oligarchs' assets valued at around 2 billion euros ($2.5 billion) following the invasion of Ukraine last year.

Bulgaria has the potential to contribute to an increase in European military aid to Ukraine by increasing production.

Ukraine will not receive modern Western fighters until its counteroffensive is completed, Rob Bauer, head of the NATO Military Committee, has said.

Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia is complicated by an abundance of landmines and other obstacles in the occupied territories, and Ukrainian troops are right to proceed with caution.

Ukraine is ready to ratify the Rome Statute and will do so in the near future, on its path to the EU accession.

On Monday, July 3rd, the International Center for the Prosecution of Crimes of Aggression against Ukraine began its operations in The Hague, based on the premises of the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust).

There was a significant increase in the number of applications from Russians seeking asylum in France in 2022.

Olha Trofimtseva, Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large, has criticised the possibility that the Russian bank will be offered a loophole allowing it to reconnect with the global financial network for the sake of the "grain deal". 

The European Union is considering a proposal to create a subsidiary of the sanctioned Rosselkhozbank (Russian Agricultural Bank) to restore its connection to the global financial network as a concession to Moscow to preserve the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

The Danish government plans to allocate 1.3 billion Danish kroner (about 170 million euros) for military support to Ukraine.

The EU has extended the economic sanctions imposed in connection with the aggressive war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine for the next six months.

The Intelligence Center of the Estonian Defence Forces has prepared an operational summary regarding the attempted armed coup in Russia carried out by Wagner Group mercenaries and its consequences for Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.

The head of the Belgian government, Alexander De Croo, states that the Wagner Group coup attempt in Russia motivates the EU to continue supporting Ukraine in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The United States is considering providing Ukraine with cluster munitions and may announce this decision in early July.

The European Union has pledged to continue to work with other countries to ensure the widest possible international support for the key principles and objectives of the Ukrainian Peace Formula.

At a summit in Brussels on Thursday, EU leaders adopted a statement expressing their readiness to contribute to future security commitments to Ukraine and to consider approaches to such a contribution.

Chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer, stated that EU countries that maintain neutrality cannot provide security guarantees to Ukraine.

The European Union is preparing to offer Ukraine "future security commitments", which will include a promise to expand the initiative to train the Ukrainian military and the possibility of sending EU military missions.

The EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, suggests planning military support to Ukraine from the EU as a long-term project aimed at strengthening its defence capabilities.

Speakers of the parliaments of Latvia (Edvards Smiltēns), Lithuania (Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen), and Estonia (Lauri Hussar) have stated that the recent Wagner Group's coup is another confirmation of the unpredictability of the situation in Russia.

Estonia will terminate the agreement on cooperation with the Russian Federation on the preservation of Cultural Property, concluded in 1998.

President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda has informed that the NASAMS systems, ordered by his country, will arrive in Ukraine in approximately three months.

The vast majority of Americans support military assistance to Ukraine to defend itself against full-scale Russian aggression, viewing it as a demonstration of the United States' willingness to protect their own and allied interests from China and other adversaries.

The Swiss government has rejected a request by Swiss defence company RUAG to re-export 96 Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine that were supposed to be delivered to Ukraine after refurbishment in Germany.

Republican Senator Jim Risch from Idaho believes that there is a fairly high probability that Ukraine will receive long-range ATACMS missiles.

Lithuania will transfer to Ukraine NASAMS air defence launchers and additional armoured personnel carriers and ammunition.

The Office of the President of Ukraine has responded to the latest statements by the Prime Minister of Hungary by questioning his subjectivity, saying that Viktor Orbán was dragging his country’s reputation through the historical mud.

Ukraine is to receive two NASAMS anti-aircraft missile system launch systems from Lithuania.

Ben Wallace, the UK Defence Secretary, stated that the Ukrainian Defence Forces have liberated more territory as part of their summer counteroffensive than Russian occupying army captured during the winter offensive.

Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, commenting on Ukraine's potential NATO accession, has stated that a country engaged in war cannot be a member of the Alliance.