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— Russia said on Monday that its troops had advanced in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, an important transport and logistics hub that they have been trying to capture for more than a year, but Ukraine said its forces were holding on.
— Zelenskyy announced that Kyiv will set up offices for arms exports and joint weapons production in Berlin and Copenhagen this year.
— EC said in a draft text that Kyiv needed to make more progress on judicial independence, fighting organised crime and respecting civil society.
— Zelenskyy said Ukraine still needs to raise $750m to secure gas imports for the upcoming winter.
— What these stories fail to mention is that the easing of previous restrictions came just two weeks after the UAE purchased $2 billion in stablecoin from World Liberty Financial, in which the Trump family owns a large share. The purchase was, apparently, the largest crypto transaction in human history.