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Spain announces aid package for Ukraine

The United States is set to allocate $6 billion for the procurement of military aid to Ukraine from U.S. defense contractors, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on April 26.

Defense Minister of the Netherlands Kajsa Ollongren has announced a new meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Ramstein format) at the end of this week.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said his country's support for Ukraine was unwavering during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on April 3, the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo said.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Kyrgyz authorities to repeal a controversial "foreign representatives" law that the Central Asian nation’s President Sadyr Japarov signed on April 2, saying it is a replica of a repressive Russian law on "foreign agents."

Ukraine's fifth president, Petro Poroshenko, told Al-Jazeera television on April 2 that he plans to run for president again after Russia's ongoing invasion of his country is over.

Police in St. Petersburg have opened a probe into the disappearance of a Chechen woman whose whereabouts have been unknown since August when she was sent back to Chechnya, where rights defenders say she may have been the victim of a so-called honor killing.

In several media interviews, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said Germany had to be prepared for a direct war against Russia, a nuclear power.

Ukraine is struggling to get new military aid from its Western allies having burnt through ammunition and weapons during its ill-fated counteroffensive.

Ukraine has announced plans to take delivery of mystery weapons from the West which aren’t yet in the Ukrainian military’s arsenal to facilitate attacks on Russia. Sputnik asked veteran geopolitical and military affairs observer Alexander Mikhailov what Kiev and its NATO sponsors may have in mind.