According to the draft budget presented to the Parliament on October 30, the U.K. will allocate $3,8 billion per year for military support to Ukraine.
The proposed budget will increase the national defence budget and maintain U.K. commitments to Ukraine.
“Today, Rachel Reeves, UK Finance Minister, announced a total increase of PS2.9 billion to the Ministry of Defense Budget next year. This will ensure that the U.K. comfortably surpasses its NATO commitments, and provide guaranteed military support for Ukraine of PS3 billion each year, for however long it takes.”
The funds are additional to the PS2,26 billion ($2.9billion) loan that was announced by the U.K. last week, which is backed by frozen Russian assets.
In July, the U.K. Labor Party, led by Keir starmer as Prime Minister, won a resounding election victory. The draft budget is aimed at tackling “a decade-and-a-half” of stagnation, as well as the high national debt.
Despite these financial difficulties, the Labor budget proposes no cuts to Ukraine’s aid for military purposes and builds on previous government promises. Last May, former Prime Minister Rishi sunak promised to send Ukraine PS3 billion annually for “as many years as necessary.”
The U.K., along with the U.S., Germany and Germany has consistently expressed strong support for Ukraine. Since Russia’s full scale invasion in February 2022, the country has pledged over $9 billion in military aid.
According to U.K. finance minister Rachel Reeves, London will provide guaranteed support for Ukraine in the amount of PS3 billion ($3.8billion) per year.
The European Commission cited recent legislative amendments affecting the election process. It also cited frequent compromises made on the secrecy of votes, procedural inconsistencies and intimidation. These have all negatively affected public trust in the electoral process.
Brussels expects Ukraine’s broadcasters to return their work to the format of the pre-war period, and questions the telethon’s objectivity.
The White House announced on October 17 that the next Ramstein format meeting would be held virtually in November, prior to Volodymyr Zelensky’s announcement.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the recent restrictions are applied to companies that are involved in networks of sanctions evasion in 17 jurisdictions including China, India Malaysia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Thailand and Turkey.
Serhii derkach, Deputy Communities and Territories Minister, presented a step-bystep plan for the partial reopening Ukraine’s airspace during a conference held in Warsaw.
“Russia thinks that they are very powerful, but if we had wanted to seize their power plant, then we would have done so, we could have done so, but we didn’t want to,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to Interfax the Russian banking giant offers interest at as low as 2% and plans to extend its offer to Kherson oblast and Zaporizhzhia as soon as construction of “housing” begins there.
The denial comes just a day after Financial Times reported that Ukraine, Russia and other countries are resuming talks about stopping the strikes on their energy infrastructures after the talks abruptly ceased in August after Ukraine’s Kursk invasion.
The prime minister of a NATO member and EU country discussed a number of topics with the propagandist sanctioned in the West, including the Nord Stream explosions and the supposed Western fatigue regarding the support for Ukraine.
It was a confidential information between Ukraine & the White House. How can we understand these messages? Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, said this during a press conference with journalists from Nordic nations.
Eric Schmidt, speaking at the Future Investment Initiative Conference in Saudi Arabia said that Russia’s conflict in Ukraine demonstrated how a “$5,000 Drone can destroy a tank worth $5 million.”
A source at the South Korean news agency said that Seoul had not received a similar request from the Ukrainians and that the matter was not being considered.
As part of the investigation, the office summoned Salome Zourabichvili on Oct. 31. The president refused acknowledge the results, calling it “a Russian special operation” and urging voters to protest.
According to the Air Force, Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 33 of the 62 Russian Shahed drones that were launched overnight. Twenty-three drones were reported “lost.”
Oleksandr Vikul, head of the city’s military administration, said on his Telegram channel, Oct. 30, “Unfortunately, 55-year-old male died at 8:50 am.”
Microsoft warned in a blogpost on October 29 that the Russian hacker group Midnight Blizzard was sending highly targeted phishing email to U.S. citizens working in government, academia and defense organizations as well as non-governmental organisations.
In a separate press briefing on October 28, Pentagon spokesperson Major-General Pat Ryder stated that a “relatively few” North Korean troops were already in Kursk Oblast.
On Oct. 29, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen dictator, appeared to boast about using Ukrainian prisoners in Chechnya as human shields. He claimed that there were casualties after a drone attack on Chechnya.
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