"The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a disbursement of US$1.3 billion (SDR 1,005.9 million) under the food shock window of the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) to help meet Ukraine’s urgent balance of payments needs," IMF said in a statement.
"We are providing by now since the beginning of the war 19 billion euros for Ukraine this is without counting military assistance and this includes that of further 2 billion euros in macro financial assistance which will be released in the coming days," von der Leyen said during a press conference after the Informal EU 27 Summit and Meeting within the European Political Community in Prague.
"There was a question from many prime ministers whether a new [EU] fund needed to be established. We here, of course, have our own opinion on this topic, but I pointed to one source — very light or relatively easy to obtain if we are talking about funds, namely frozen assets of the Russian Federation, frozen assets of Russian oligarchs," Morawiecki told reporters in Prague following the second day of the European Political Community's summit.
Speaking at Australia's Lowy Institute via a video link, Zelensky said that NATO should launch "preemptive" strikes on Russia rather than "waiting" for Russia to attack. Commenting on the remark, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Sputnik that this is nothing but an appeal to start a world war.
"The price cap is not the only thing because if afterwards, because of the price cap we do not get energy so maybe we will have a price but no energy because we have to know we are not the only customers in the world. So we have to be very careful about the decisions that we take that sound good on paper but consequences can be problematic," Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said upon arriving for the Informal EU 27 Summit and Meeting within the European Political Community in Prague.
"A group of IAEA experts is coming to visit us. Today they are to arrive at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and replace two specialists from Spain and Romania," Vladimir Rogov, a senior official in the regional governmen, said.
"Ukraine needs heavy weapons and it needs tanks, it needs arms, member states can provide them, as Russia escalates its invasion, and it gets more desperate. We need to respond with a proportionate way," Metsola told reporters before the EU summit in the Czech capital of Prague.