The EU’s diplomatic service wants to expand its training mission for Ukrainian troops and eventually move it into Ukraine “when circumstances permit”, El País reports, as part of security commitments that also cover air defence, equipment repair, demining and cybersecurity.
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Germany and the US intend to block a decision on rapid NATO membership for Ukraine at the Vilnius summit, Bild reports, citing a confidential document, while France, the UK, Poland and the Baltic states want Ukraine invited as soon as possible, exposing divisions.
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Russian occupation authorities are offering teenagers in occupied parts of Ukraine cash payments for obtaining Russian passports, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center says, adding that arbitrary detention and torture of people who refuse Russian citizenship remain common.
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Over 500 days of full-scale war, Russia has committed 94,000 war crimes, killed more than 10,500 Ukrainian civilians, including about 500 children, and destroyed 115,000 civilian infrastructure facilities, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin has said.
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Russia’s share of EU imports of petroleum oils fell from 26.0% in the first quarter of 2022 to 3.2% in the first quarter of 2023, Eurostat says, as the bloc cut its reliance on Russian energy after the invasion of Ukraine, with Norway, Saudi Arabia and the US gaining most.
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Ukraine’s Navy has set up a headquarters to plan clearing mines from the Black Sea, many of them washed out by the Kakhovka dam breach, Navy commander Oleksiy Neizhpapa says, with minehunters training in the UK and hopes that NATO’s mine countermeasures group will join.
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