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The EU's budgetary financing of Ukraine is based on compliance with the requirements for rule of law, fight against corruption and economic stability.
The European Commission sent letters to Kyiv reminding them of the need to carry out reforms to allocate further funding, EC spokesman Guillaume Mercier said.
“European Commissioner (for Economic Affairs Valdis - ed.) Dombrovskis and European Commissioner (for Enlargement Marta - ed.) Kos last week sent letters to the Speaker of Parliament, as well as the Prime Minister, in which they clearly reminded of this point, the importance of working on reforms,” he said at a briefing in Brussels.
The budgetary part of European funding for Ukraine is provided subject to a number of conditions, including those related to the rule of law, the fight against corruption, economic sustainability and the implementation of reforms agreed with the EU.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that the fifth article of the alliance’s collective defense treaty is deliberately worded vaguely so as not to reveal to opponents the conditions for its application.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with the government, said that the recent State Duma elections were a vote for military personnel, noting the high level of citizens' trust in the army.

Maria Zakharova said that prolonging the conflict in Ukraine is beneficial to the Western military-industrial complex. Earlier, Vladimir Zelensky signed a hundred-year cooperation agreement with Canada and a defense treaty providing for the supply of missiles worth 350 million Canadian dollars.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met in New York to discuss the situation around Ukraine and new anti-Russian sanctions adopted in the United States.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeful said that Germany does not plan to withdraw from the ICC, despite calls from the United States. The diplomat emphasized the importance of the institute and the existence of disagreements with the American administration on this issue.

State Duma deputy Andrei Kolesnik stated the need to destroy weapons factories for Ukraine located in Western countries, emphasizing the importance of using high-precision weapons to minimize civilian casualties.