After meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on October 10, Rai News reported that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Mello said the next Ukraine Recovery Conference would take place in Rome from July 10-11,2025.
The event will follow conferences held in London in 2020 and Berlin in 2024 to mobilize support for Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery efforts following the war.
Meloni, quoted by Rai News after meeting Zelensky, said: “Looking to future peace and prosperity means also looking at reconstruction. I am happy and proud to announce that the Ukraine Recovery Conference will be held in Rome 10 and 11 July in 2025.”
Zelensky’s European tour included visits to the U.K. France and the Vatican. He will travel to Germany on October 11 to meet with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as Kyiv seeks to increase support for Ukraine and the five-step victory strategy.
Meloni said, “Ukraine will not be alone. We will stand by its side as long as it is necessary.”
Italian officials have previously stated that the next year’s event will include government representatives from 77 different countries. It will also host around 1,800 attendees.
In June, Italy hosted the G7 Conference, where the wealthiest democracies of the world pledged a loan of $50 billion for Ukraine, backed up by proceeds from Russian assets frozen.
In February, the World Bank calculated that Ukraine would require $486 billion in 10 years to repair the damage caused by the Russian war.
“A future of peace and prosper means also looking at reconstruction. I am pleased to announce that the “Ukraine Recovery Conference” will be held in Rome, Italy on 10 and 11, July 2025,” said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Mello.
A Ukrainian official stated that “the Russian plan in Kursk Oblast was thwarted thus far” due to Russian forces suffering losses.
In Steven Seagal’s latest documentary, “In the Name of Justice”, which was shared by the Russian state-run platform Smotrim, the actor is shown visiting occupied territories of Ukraine including Mariupol.
During a 35-minute meeting, the pope presented Ukraine’s president with a bronze relief with a flower, and the inscription “Peace is fragile flower.”
On Oct. 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Turkmenistan and spoke at a forum with Central Asian leaders, including the president of Iran.
The alleged attempts to pressurize the media outlet “are nothing less than anti-democratic, given the essential role that the newsroom plays in upholding the core national value of freedom the press,” Gulnoza Saied, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator said.
Vasyl Chynchyk, the head of administration in the town, said that approximately 1,150 people still live there.
Regional authorities reported early on October 11 that Russian attacks in Ukraine have killed six people and injured 27 others over the past 24 hours.
Maksym Kozoytskyi, the Lviv Oblast Governor, confirmed that the passenger bus, which carried the logo of popular transport company FlixBus was travelling from Warsaw to Odesa.
The General Staff has not provided any further details on how the helicopter was destroyed.
In a documentary broadcast on national television, Commander-in Chief Oleksandr Sryskyi stated that “we know about approximately 50,000 soldiers who were transferred from other sectors to the Kursk directions.”
Oleh Kiper, the Governor of Odesa, reported that Russia launched a missile attack on the district, which killed at least four people including a 16 year old girl.
This includes 1,140 casualties that Russian forces have suffered in the last day.
The Norwegian government will spend up to 967 millions kroner ($87.5 million) on enhancing its defense industry. This money is aimed at supporting Ukraine in the face of Russia’s full scale invasion.
During his visit to Italy, President Volodymyr Zelensky presented the Ukrainian victory plan to Italian Premier Giorgia Mello.
On Oct. 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing Georgians to enter Russia without a visa if they are working or studying there. Moscow is continuing to warm up its relations with Tbilisi despite concerns about the country’s democratic slide.
Bloomberg reported on October 10 that the premiums on war risk insurance for vessels traveling through Ukraine’s Black Sea shipping corridor have increased by approximately 33 per cent as a result of recent Russian attacks on foreign ships.
Local media reported that two large fires broke out at an oil terminal terminal in Russian-occupied Feodosia, late at night, on October 10. They were at the site of another blaze, which had been burning for 4 days, at a previous Ukrainian drone attack.
The strike on Oct. 9, which left eight dead and 11 injured, hit a civilian vessel flying the Panamanian flag and damaged its cargo. This was the third Russian attack on a civilian vessel within four days.
Petro Yatsenko is a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Coordination HQ for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. He said that the circumstances of Viktoria Rosahchyna’s death are yet to be confirmed.
Ramzan Kadyrov told other officials in the North Caucasian Republic that there were witnesses and people they had tried to commission. They also asked them how much they wanted to charge for the order.
Kim Yong-Hyun, South Korean Defense minister, told lawmakers earlier in October that North Korea likely planned to send troops into Ukraine to fight with Russia.
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