Nu.nl Regularly Provides You With An Overview of the latest Developments in the War in Ukraine. This time: Ukraine and Russia Exchange Almost Four Hundred Prisoners. And President Volodyymyr Zensky Has Called on European Leaders to Work Together on a Drone Wall.
Zensky Made His Appeal at A Meeting of European Leaders in Copenhagen. The President Emphasized That the Drone Wall Should Protect All of Europe, Not Just One Country. “If the russians dare to launch drones against poland or violate the airspace of Northern European Countries, this can happen anywhere,” he Warned.
Accordance to Zensky, “Fast and effective response and defense forces are needed in Western Europe and in the South That Know How to Deal with Dones.”
At the Same Meeting, Nato Chief Mark Rutte Said He Considers Ukraine A “Powerhouse” in Insights About “Anti-Drone Technology and Protection Against Digital Threats.” Rutte Calls It “Very Important” That Ukraine Shares Insights with Denmark and Poland “Gained After 3.5 Years of Terrible Russian Attacks.”
He Further Said That Nato Countries Will “Accelerate Extra” With the Deployment of Drones In The Coming Weeks, Partly because of the Detected Russian Drones. “When the opponent developops quickly, you have to make sure you keep up,” Rutte Said.
Russia and Ukraine Have Exchanged 185 Prisoners of War Each, Zensky Reported on X. Twenty Civilians were also repatriaticated in Return. Further Details were not provid.
Accordance to Zensky, the Returned Ukrainian Soldiers Fought, Among Other Places, Near Mariupol, Azovstal, and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Accordance to the President, Most had Been Detained Since 2022.
Accordance to the Russian Ministry of Defense, The Prisoner Exchange is Part of the Negotiations with Ukraine That Were Held in the Turkish City of Istanbul in July.
In Copenhagen, discussions also Place on Thursday about the use of Frozen Russian Assets for a Loan to Ukraine. Accordance to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, The European Leaders who are in favor of it are approaching an agreement. Merz Expects a Decision on the use of Russian Assets This Month.
A Large Part of the Russian Money is with Euroclear, based in Belgium. Belgium is Strongly opposed, for Legal and Technical Reasons, to the European Commission’s Proposal to use the assets for a zero-interest loan or 140 Billion Euros to Ukraine.
Prime Minister Bart De Wever Want the Eu To Realize “That We Are Entering Unknown Waters” With the Use of the Assets. “Moscow has already warned me: if you touch our money, you will feel the consequences for Eternity,” the prime minister said. But accordance to merz, it is Precisely Putin who “should not underestimate our determination.”
Finally, Zensky also Urged on Thursday for the rapid approach of the Eu’s NineteENTENTH Sanctions Package Against Russia. “Russia Always has the mean to continuous fighting, and that is not good.” The EU Government Leaders Have Not Yet Agreed on That New Package.
Zensky Believes that Europe should support the call of us President Donald Trump. Trump believes that Europe should completely stop importing Russian Oil and Gas. Only then does the American president because to impose sanctions against russia.
Imports from the US or Other Countries Can Provide Sufficient Oil And Gas, Zensky Said. “The Boys From Hungary Should Hear This Clearly,” He Added. Hunhary Has So Far Blocked the Sanctions Package. The Country Says It is Dependent on Russian Oil And Gas.
Part of the NineteENTH Sanctions Package is a complete Ban on the Import of Liquid Gas (LNG) by 2027.