Ukraine and world news 2024

26.04. According to the results of the meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine in the Rammstein format, US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin confirmed the information previously spread in the media about plans to purchase weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) worth six billion dollars.

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26.04. In total, since the beginning of the year, Ukraine has received about $12 billion in external financing to cover the budget deficit.

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26.04. France wants to create an EU rapid response force to protect European citizens. They will perform tasks in which the North Atlantic Alliance is incompetent.

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25.04. The European Commission announced the allocation to Ukraine of a tranche of 1.5 billion euros of macro-financial assistance from the large support package Ukraine Facility in the amount of 50 billion euros.

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25.04. Poland is ready to help Ukraine in getting military-age male citizens to return and help their home country in fighting in the war against Russia, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said.

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25.04. Italy intends to sign a tripartite agreement with Ukraine and UNESCO on the restoration of Odessa and the Transfiguration Cathedral.

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25.04. During a vote in the UN Security Council, Russia vetoed a draft resolution proposed by the United States and Japan to prevent a nuclear arms race in space.

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24.04. The US Senate has finally approved the decision on military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan in the amount of $95 billion. 61 billion of this amount is intended to help Ukraine.

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24.04. All consular services to Ukrainian men of mobilization age abroad will cease from April 23. The exception is the preparation of documents for returning to Ukraine.

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24.04. The first border post was installed on the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia. This marks the beginning of the implementation of agreements on the delimitation of the state border.

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23.04. A 4-party memorandum of understanding was signed in Baghdad between Iraq, Turkey, Qatar and the UAE on cooperation within the framework of the Development Road project.

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23.04. The International Monetary Fund will assess what impact the new US aid package will have on Ukraine's external debt when it is approved.

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23.04. For January - March 2024, expenditures of the general fund of the state budget of Ukraine on the security and defense sector amounted to UAH 408.2 billion.

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23.04. Heat-related mortality rates in Europe have risen by about 30 percent over the past 20 years, the World Meteorological Organization said.

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22.04. Global military spending will reach $2.443 trillion in 2023, a 6.8% increase from the previous year and the highest growth rate since 2009, according to the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

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22.04. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to resist any attempts to impose sanctions on the country's military following reports that the United States plans to cut off aid to an IDF unit.

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22.04. Ukraine ranked eighth in the world in terms of military spending, which increased by 51 percent last year to $64.8 billion (37 percent of the country's GDP and 58 percent of government spending), according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

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21.04. As of January 2024, 14.6 million people in Ukraine are in need of humanitarian assistance, 3.6 million Ukrainians are internally displaced, 6.34 million people have become refugees in Europe, report from the UN Country Office in Ukraine.

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21.04. Tens of thousands of people have protested in the Canary Islands demanding a change to the mass tourism model they say dominates the archipelago. There were also demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona in support of the rallies in the Canaries.

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21.04. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects OPEC and its partners to gradually increase oil production from July.

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