News Brief Update 21 - Russia’s war with Ukraine

Moreover, Russia has recognized the independence of the On 19 July, EU foreign ministers agreed Donbas republics on the whole administrative another €500m to supply arms to Ukraine, territory of the Donbas, even though some of taking the bloc’s security support to €2.5bn that territory remains in Ukrainian hands and is since February. [...] The report also expressed “grave Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the chief of the UK concern” about the alleged mistreatment of defence staff, told the BBC on 17 July that tens of thousands of Ukrainians in so-called Russia has lost more than 30% of its land filtration centres set up by Russia in the self- combat effectiveness and 50,000 of its soldiers proclaimed breakaway Donetsk People’s have either. [...] The ICC in the Hague opened an investigation into possible war crimes in Ukraine just days Further reading: after Moscow’s forces invaded and it dispatched dozens of investigators to the On outcomes and consequences of the country to gather evidence. [...] have been committed in the territories under the effective control of the Russian Federation, The EU agreed a new round of sanctions including the territories of the so-called against Russia, this time targeting its gold Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, and exports, as well as individuals and entities. [...] The EU’s high alarming phenomena which were not included representative for foreign policy, Josep Borrell, or paid sufficient attention in the first report, said the ban on Russian gold was the most namely the establishment and use of so-called important measure of the latest plan, which is filtration centres and the tendency by the focused largely on “improving the Russian Federation to bypass it.