What has happened in the last hours
On the 127th day of the war initiated by Russia against Ukraine, marked by the closure of the NATO summit in Madrid, these are the key data at 8:00 p.m. this Thursday, June 30:
Biden announces that the United States will donate an additional $800 million in arms aid to Ukraine. The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has announced that Washington will donate 800 million dollars plus (768 million euros) on additional arms aid to Ukraine in the coming days, which will include air defense systems and offensive weapons. “We are going to support Ukraine for as long as necessary,” the president reiterated at his closing press conference at the NATO summit in Madrid. “All the allies are going to be with Ukraine. The war will not end with a Russian victory over Ukraine,” Biden assured.
Johnson is confident in Ukraine’s ability to win the war against Russia. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, is confident that Ukraine has the ability to win the war against Russia, as he stated during his appearance at the closing of the NATO summit in Madrid. “We think they [los ucranios]In fact, they have it in their power to repel the Russians and return them to the position prior to February 24,” Johnson said.
Erdogan threatens to stop the accession of Sweden and Finland if they do not fulfill their commitments to Ankara. The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said this Thursday at a press conference after the end of the NATO summit in Madrid that Sweden and Finland must fulfill the promises they have made to Turkey in exchange for Ankara withdrawing its veto on the incorporation of the two Nordic countries into NATO. Among the promises, according to Erdogan, is Sweden’s word to extradite “73 terrorists.” The Turkish president has said that the trilateral agreement between Ankara, Stockholm and Helsinki is a “diplomatic victory” for Turkey. Asked what will happen if these countries do not comply with the Turkish requests, Erdogan has threatened to block entry into the Helsinki and Stockholm Alliance: “If they are not complied with, for whatever reason, then we will act accordingly.” And he has added. “If the promises are not kept, then I’m sorry, the promises are to be kept.”
The US freezes assets worth 1,000 million dollars of a company linked to a Russian oligarch. The United States has frozen this Thursday assets valued at more than 1,000 million dollars (953 million euros) of a company based in the United States linked to the Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, already sanctioned by Washington. The Treasury Department has claimed that Kerimov, a billionaire active in Russian politics, ran the Delaware-based company Heritage Trust.
The Indonesian president visits Putin in Moscow and delivers a message from Zelensky. The president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, known as Jokowi, delivered this Thursday in Moscow to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, a message from the Ukrainian leader, Volodímir Zelenski, with whom he met on Wednesday in kyiv, before visiting the Russian capital . “I have delivered a message from President Zelensky to President Putin and have expressed my willingness to mediate communication between the two leaders,” he said at a joint press conference with the Russian president after holding a meeting.
Von der Leyen announces that Ukraine can export electricity to the EU. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced this Thursday that “as of today, Ukraine can export electricity to the European market.” “It will provide an additional source of electricity to the EU, as well as economic income that Ukraine urgently needs. In this way, we both benefit.”
In the photo by Miguel Medina, for AFP, a monument in kyiv decorated with flags to ask for military aid for Ukraine “to all nations”.