European Council: Michel writes to 27 EU leaders, “grant candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova”. Partnership with Georgia and the Balkans

European Commission: EU opens its doors to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. Von der Leyen “historic day”

Council of Europe: repeated, serious breaches of human rights in Crimea. Observers cannot get into the Ukrainian region annexed to Russia

EU Economic and Social Committee: EUR 60,000 for civil society projects dedicated to young people and Ukraine

War and Russia seen from Latvia: “Zero dialogue with Moscow. NATO offers security”

Interview with Velta Skolmeistere, researcher at Latvia University. She warns against threats from the Kremlin, while recalling the troubled history…

Appeal from the Exarch of Odessa: “Help Ukraine to end this war as soon as possible!”

The southern region of Odessa is among the hardest hit by Russian aggression. Greek Catholic Eparchial Bishop Mykhaylo Bubniy sends…

EU Parliament: Stefanchuk (president of the Rada), “we hope we’ll be given candidate country status”. Thanks for homing our refugees

Cholera emergency in Mariupol. Fr. Oleh Ladnyuk (Salesian): “There are no definite news but the risk increases with heat, contaminated water and unattended corpses.”

“Tens of thousands dead from the cholera epidemic – unfortunately, this is a potentially real scenario for occupied Mariupol. “The…

Ukraine: 500 patients transferred to European hospitals under the Civil Protection Mechanism. Kyriakides (Commission), “this is true solidarity in action”

War in Ukraine: Borrell, “100 days of unreasonable destruction”. Metsola, “Europe must offer hope”. Von der Leyen, “the EU is on the side of the attacked country”

Voices from the Donbas. Fr Oleh (Salesian): “An unprecedented massacre.” “The international community must stop the war now”

Fighting in the Donbas region escalated in the past few days. It is feared that Severodonetsk could become a new…