Politics

The United States does not allow Ukraine to use the provided American long-range weapons for attacks on Russia’s Kursk Oblast, because they believe that it is more appropriate to use them for strikes on the temporarily occupied Crimea, reported CNN with reference to officials of the US administration.

When exchanging prisoners, Ukraine will return certain categories of people as a priority, said Ukraine’s spymaster Kyrylo Budanov at a joint briefing with the heads of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Foreign Intelligence Service, and the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.

Already on August 1, the grace period during which Ukraine did not pay off its foreign debts ends. The two options are to agree on an extension of the debt service freeze period or actual default, The Economist reports.

EU ambassadors agreed on the 14th package of sanctions against Russia in response to Russia's war against Ukraine, announced the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU.