Ukraine's Ambassador to Romania Ihor Prokopchuk and Romania's Prime Minister Nicolae Ionel Ciuca have discussed the security situation in the face of Russia's ongoing aggression.
The nationalization of JSC Motor Sich, PJSC Zaporizhtransformator, PJSC AvtoKrAZ, PJSC Ukrnafta and PJSC Ukrtatnafta is a necessary step that will help ensure the urgent needs of Ukraine's defense sector.
Ukraine's First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova and Director-General of the European Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Masashi Nakagome have discussed further support for Ukraine in the face of Russia's full-scale aggression and priorities during Japan's presidency of the Group of Seven.
The enterprises, whose assets have been forcibly transferred into state ownership, should meet Ukraine’s defense needs, and some of them will restore the production capacities that have been lost.
The assets of Motor Sich, Zaporizhtransformator, AvtoKrAZ, Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta have been placed under the management of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
In the Kherson region’s Beryslav district, Russian invaders opened fire with the Grad multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), having destroyed a kindergarten.
According to available intelligence, Russia has ordered Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar ballistic missiles from Iran as it has about 120 of its own Iskander missiles left.
Russian Pacific Fleet’s warships had been waiting for Türkiye’s permission to cross the Bosphorus into the Black Sea since early February, but Ankara never allowed them to enter.
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba has reiterated his call to customers and partners of international companies, which remain on the Russian market and thus finance Russia’s war crimes, to boycott these firms.
Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksii Reznikov, says the NASAMS air defense systems and the Aspide anti-aircraft missile complex have arrived in Ukraine.