The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will expand funding for projects in Ukraine in 2024. The main areas of cooperation will concern financing equipment manufacturers for mine clearance of agricultural land, a project to ensure military risks, and lending to the economy's real sector.
Marcel Ciolacu, Prime Minister of Romania, plans to visit Kyiv in October, where he will take part in a joint meeting of the Ukrainian and Romanian governments. Source: Ciolacu in an interview with Digi24, as reported by European Pravda Details: The Romanian Prime Minister announced that next month he would "go to Kyiv with several ministers to work through as many areas of cooperation as possible that we have with Ukraine".
Iryna Vereshchuk, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Ukraine's Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, has asked Ukrainians to leave the occupied Crimea if possible. Source: Vereshchuk on Telegram Quote: "Once again, I am asking Ukrainians to leave Crimea if possible.
In New York, President Volodymyr Zelensky and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama have officially inked a joint declaration pertaining to Ukraine's aspirations for Euro-Atlantic integration, according to Ihor Zhovkva, presidential office deputy head.
In Kherson, 400 access points that previously lost power after severe flooding have been powered up. However, 6,500 consumers are still without electricity. Source: the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine "In Kherson, we continue to restore the networks damaged during the flood.