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Ukraine

• The Ukrainian and Italian Sides Discussed Italy's Presidency of the Group of Seven This Year President of Ukraine 18 Apr 2024
• The President of Ukraine Met with the Vice Chancellor, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action of Germany President of Ukraine 18 Apr 2024
• Ukraine and the Czech Republic Started Negotiations on a Bilateral Security Agreement President of Ukraine 18 Apr 2024
• Our Domestic Defense Production Yielded Important Results - Address by the President President of Ukraine 18 Apr 2024
• Ukraine's Position on Holding Russia Accountable For Aggression Remains Unchanged — Iryna Mudra President of Ukraine 18 Apr 2024
• Strengthening of Air Defense, Weapons for Soldiers and Sanctions against Russia: The President Addressed the Countries Participating in the European Council Meeting President of Ukraine 18 Apr 2024
• The President During the Special Meeting of the European Council: The Beginning of this Day Reflects our Current Key Need - the Need for Air Defense President of Ukraine 18 Apr 2024

Russia

• Meeting with the Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov President of Russia 18 Apr 2024 -- The President listened, via videoconference, to a report of the Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov on the socio-economic situation in the country. Special attention was paid to the support for the families of army personnel.
• Russia: New US aid for Ukraine will fail to change military situation in favor of Kiev Press TV 18 Apr 2024 -- Russia says the latest aid package by the United States for Ukraine will fail to change the military situation in favor of Kiev, as Washington gears up for a seminal weekend vote on a long-stalled major military aid package for the ex-Soviet republic.
• Statement by Russian Defence Ministry Russia MoD 18 Apr 2024 -- In the morning, the Russian Armed Forces have foiled attempts by the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation using Tochka-U operational-tactical missile system, RM-70 Vampire MLRS projectiles, fixed-wing UAVs, as well as small baloons.

United States

• CIA director: Ukraine could lose war against Russia without US aid VOA 18 Apr 2024 -- The director of the CIA warned Thursday there is a "real risk that the Ukrainians could lose on the battlefield by the end of 2024," in its war against Russia.
• Secretary Blinken's Meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba US Dept. of State 18 Apr 2024
• U.S. Envoy On Ukraine's Economic Recovery Says Reconstruction Process Already Under Way RFE/RL 18 Apr 2024 -- The United States and Ukraine's other partners have already started working on Ukraine's economic recovery even as Kyiv focuses on defending itself because both Kyiv and its partners know that "part of Putin's war strategy is to try and destroy Ukraine's economy," said the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine's economic recovery.
• Driving Ukraine's Economic Recovery in Partnership with the Private Sector US Dept. of State 18 Apr 2024 -- The Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Department of Commerce, in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Government of Ukraine, hosted the second U.S.-Ukraine Partnership Forum on April 17 at the Chamber headquarters in Washington, D.C.
• Readout of Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer's Meeting with Prime Minister Shmyhal of Ukraine The White House 18 Apr 2024
• Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder Holds a Press Briefing DoD 18 Apr 2024

NATO

• NATO chief says alliance working to send more air defense systems to Ukraine VOA 18 Apr 2024 -- NATO is working to send more air defense systems to Ukraine, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday, noting that Ukraine had an "urgent, critical need for more air defense."
• Secretary General participates in G7 meeting, stresses NATO's support to Ukraine NATO 18 Apr 2024 -- NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg underlined the importance of strengthening support to Ukraine at the G7 meeting of Foreign Ministers in Capri, Italy, on Thursday (18 April 2024).
• Zelensky, Stoltenberg agree to hold urgent meeting of Ukraine-NATO Council People's Daily 18 Apr 2024 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday agreed to hold an urgent meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council.

United Nations

• Update 224 - IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine IAEA 18 Apr 2024 -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was informed about a further attempted drone attack today on the training centre of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), causing no damage or casualties, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.

Foreign Reactions

• G7 reaffirms support for Ukraine's defense, financial needs VOA 18 Apr 2024 -- The Group of Seven on Thursday reaffirmed its support for Ukraine's defense, addressing both its urgent short-term financing needs and long-term reconstruction. Germany will host a Ukraine recovery conference in Berlin this year, while Italy will host the conference in 2025.
• 'Send Them To Ukraine': EU's Borrell Urges Europeans To Donate Air Defense Systems RFE/RL 18 Apr 2024 -- The European Union's foreign policy chief called on EU member states to give Ukraine more air defense systems as the embattled country grapples with increasingly intense Russian air strikes on its infrastructure while its stocks of weapons and ammunition dwindle as critical U.S. aid remains stuck in Congress.
• Commission allocates additional €10 million to support researchers from Ukraine under Horizon Europe European Commission 18 Apr 2024 -- The Commission has topped up the budget of the MSCA4Ukraine initiative, set up to support researchers forced to flee Ukraine, with an additional €10 million. The scheme, set up under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) has supported displaced researchers since the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
• OSCE Chair-in-Office and Secretary General demand urgent action to release the three OSCE officials held in Donetsk and Luhansk for 2 years OSCE 18 Apr 2024 -- This week marks two years since three OSCE officials were unjustly detained in Luhansk and Donetsk. The OSCE Chair-in-Office, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of Malta Ian Borg, and OSCE Secretary General, Helga Maria Schmid, reiterated the demand for their immediate release and urged all members of the international community to amplify this message.
• Prime Minister Orpo stresses need for urgent military support to Ukraine and calls for restraint in the Middle East Finnish Government 18 Apr 2024 -- In the evening on Wednesday 17 April, the special European Council discussed the security situation in Europe and the Middle East.
• Switzerland strengthens humanitarian demining capacities in Ukraine Federal Council - Swiss Government 18 Apr 2024 -- On 17-18 April, representatives from more than 50 countries and organisations gathered at an international workshop in Kyiv to discuss measures for identifying and clearing mines and unexploded ordnance in Ukraine.

News Reports

• Ground Drones: The Next Frontier Of Unmanned Combat In Ukraine RFE/RL 18 Apr 2024 -- The modern battlefield has been transformed by drones in the air and on the high seas, and now both Russia and Kyiv appear to be on the cusp of deploying large numbers of ground drones onto Ukrainian soil.
• Joint Statement on the Islamic Republic of Iran's Attack on the State of Israel Australia DFAT 18 Apr 2024 -- The Permanent Representatives of the United States, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom to the United Nations issued the following joint statement condemning the Islamic Republic of Iran's attack on the State of Israel: