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In July 2023, Britain's head of MI6, Richard Moore, stated that the Chinese government and Xi Jinping were "absolutely complicit" in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [161] In May 2024, former UK defense minister Grant Shapps stated that according to US and British intelligence, "lethal aid" was being flown from China to Russia and into Ukraine ...
At the Ramstein meeting, Norway pledged a military aid package of 2 billion euros for Ukraine over 2025. Canada pledged $330 million in military aid. While the US announced an aid package of $500 million. The UK announced it, and other allies, would send 30,000 fpv drones to Ukraine. Germany would deliver 6 IRIS-T launchers as well. [41] [42] [43]
Ukrainian People's Republic is defeated; most of Ukraine's territory becomes part of the Ukrainian SSR, which joins the Soviet Union in 1922; Second Polish Republic achieves independence and annexes parts of western Ukraine. 1917–1920 Russian Civil War – Southern Front Ukrainian People's Republic Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan Insurgent Army ...
Ukraine announced that it would boycott UEFA football matches involving Russian teams after the body decided to lift the ban on Russian youth teams that had been imposed following the invasion. [228] Poland, Latvia , Lithuania , England , Northern Ireland , Denmark , and Sweden also announced that it would join Ukraine in its boycott.
"China's Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukrainian Crisis" (also "China's Peace Plan") is a document published on February 24, 2023, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, which reflects the view of the Chinese authorities on the peaceful end of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Often referred to as the ...
Ukraine announced the domestic production of analogs of Soviet-era hand grenades such as the F-1 and RGD-5. [252] Ukraine's military claimed that Russian forces used chemical weapons 447 times, against Ukrainian soldiers, during August 2024, in violation of Convention on the Prohibition of the Chemical Weapons Convention. [253]
Ukraine claimed to have shot down a Russian Su-25 jet near Pokrovsk. [414] A police officer was killed in a Russian drone strike near Vovchansk. [415] A Russian court sentenced a resident of Chita to 12 years' imprisonment for spying for Ukraine. [416] The United Kingdom accused China of supplying lethal aid to Russia. [417]
During the 2009 flu pandemic in Ukraine, the Chinese government allocated free aid worth a total of 3.5 million yuan ($500,000) to supply diagnostic devices, face masks, eyeglasses, gloves, and other means of protection for Ukraine. [60] From 2016 to 2021, China's investment in Ukraine rose from $50 million to $260 million. [57]