Figure of the week 

• $61 billion in new military and economic aid from the US to Ukraine.

Foreign Policy 

• President Zelenskyy had phone calls with the President of the US and the Prime Minister of the UK. 

• President Zelenskyy met with Foreign and Ukrainian Ambassadors. 

• President of Ukraine received the Letters of Credence from the newly appointed ambassadors of Poland, Australia, Thailand, Ghana and Uganda. 

• President Zelenskyy met with the Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs of Denmark M.Bødskov. 

• Foreign Minister Kuleba to the EU Foreign and Defense Ministers: the time for discussion is over, we need action.

• Defense Minister Umerov participated in the extraordinary session of the Ukraine-NATO Council.

• European Commission disbursed €1.5bn macro-finance tranche to Ukraine. 

• The UK is providing £500m in additional military funding to support Ukraine. 

• Ukraine started negotiations on a security agreement with Portugal. 

• Ukraine and Brazil discussed a plan to cooperate to increase trade turnover between the countries. 

• Ukraine and Denmark signed a Memorandum of Understanding on long-term cooperation and reconstruction of Ukraine. 

Home and Frontline

• Total Russian combat losses since February 24, 2022 – to April 25, 2024, are: personnel – 462 980, tanks – 7 255, ACV – 13 942, artillery system – 11 836. 

• Russians purge libraries in occupied Crimea of books referencing Holodomor and Crimean Tatars. 

• Russians launched a missiles and drone attack on Cherkasy, Odesa, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Nikopol. 

• Ukraine’s Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development held a conference entitled ”Rebuilding Ukraine: Why It Shouldn’t Be Postponed Until Victory”.

Learn more about Ukraine
• Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster 

38 years ago, Soviet negligence and lies caused the worst nuclear disaster of the 20th century. The emission of radiation transformed a formerly comfortable and thriving region into an exclusion zone. While radioactive materials were spreading across the continent, Soviet officials tried to conceal the disaster caused by reactor design flaws and human error. After 38 years Russia keeps blackmailing the entire planet by occupying the Zaporizhzhia NPP, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.

Ukraine Weekly, 25.04.2024.pdf