{"id":290143,"date":"2025-07-25T08:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/290143\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:46:12","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-anti-corruption-agencies-endorse-bill-restoring-their-independence-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/290143\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Anti-corruption agencies endorse bill restoring their independence | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">There were <strong>tensions over the Ukraine war as EU officials met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping<\/strong>, in Beijing on Thursday. Antonio Costa, the European Council president, said the EU officials discussed \u201cat length\u201d their <strong>expectations for China to discourage Russia<\/strong> in its war against Ukraine. The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, prior to the meeting said China was \u201cenabling Russia\u2019s war economy\u201d. Xi told EU to \u201cproperly handle differences and frictions \u2026 The current challenges facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/europe-news\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe<\/a> do not come from China.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">A <strong>Russian attack killed three family members already displaced by the war<\/strong>, authorities announced on Thursday. The father, mother and son had fled to the village of Pidlyman in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine after Russian forces invaded their home town. A strike later on Kharkiv city wounded 33 people, including a 10-year-old girl, a 17-year-old boy and girl, the governor said. A separate Russian drone and missile barrage wounded seven people including a child in the central Ukrainian region of Cherkasy, emergency services said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The US state department on Thursday said it had approved <strong>military sales worth US$330m<\/strong> to Ukraine comprising $150m worth of maintenance, repair and overhaul capability for M109 self-propelled howitzers, and $180m to sustain air defences. The Pentagon said contractors involved would include BAE Systems, Allison Transmission, Daimler Truck North America, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Radionix and Systems Electronic Export. The US on Wednesday announced sales of $322m related to Hawk surface-to-air missiles and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\"><strong>Reuters are reporting that an Indian company<\/strong> <strong>shipped $1.4m worth of an explosive used in missile warheads, rocket motors and bombs to Russia<\/strong> in December 2024 despite the threat of US sanctions, according to Indian customs data seen by the news agency. One Russian company listed as receiving the <strong>compound, known as HMX or <\/strong><strong>octogen<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> was an explosives manufacturer, which Ukraine\u2019s SBU security service has linked to Moscow\u2019s military. An SBU official said Ukraine launched a drone attack in April against one of the company\u2019s factories.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The US government has <strong>identified HMX\/octogen as \u201ccritical for Russia\u2019s war effort\u201d<\/strong>. The US state department did not comment to Reuters on the specific shipments but said it had repeatedly communicated to India that companies doing military-related business with Russia were at risk of sanctions. However, <strong>under Donald Trump, Russia-related sanctions work has slowed to a trickle<\/strong>. India\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement: \u201cIndia has been carrying out exports of dual-use items taking into account its international obligations on non-proliferation,\u201d adding that such exports were subject to \u201cholistic assessment\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were tensions over the Ukraine war as EU officials met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, in Beijing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-290143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114913003767213251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}