Zelenskyy urges leaders to make use of frozen Russian property to rebuild Ukraine
Zelenskyy says Ukraine wants a “Marshall plan-style” effort to information its reconstruction. “We should always develop it collectively,” he says.
He tells leaders that it’s not simply charity, however funding:
“Rebuilding Ukraine isn’t just about our nation. It’s additionally about your nations, your firms, know-how, your jobs, the best way we rebuild our nation can even modernise your infrastructure and industries.”
He then says Europe ought to “clearly agree that frozen Russian property ought to go in direction of Ukraine’s restoration.”
“Not solely the revenue from these property, however the property themselves should be used and far more actively than they’re now to assist save lives.”
Zelenskyy additionally picks up Meloni’s earlier level (11:36) and says “solely associates are invited to be part of Ukraine’s financial and technological restoration,” and never “those that are serving to Russia persevering with this battle.”
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Europe will likely be on Ukraine’s aspect for ‘so long as it takes,’ von der Leyen says, as she says EU able to open accession talks
European Fee president Ursula von der Leyen opens her speech by saying Europe has been on Ukraine’s aspect from day one and “will likely be in your aspect for so long as it takes.”
She then talks about EU’s plans to rearm and put money into defence throughout the continent, together with in partnership with non-member states like Ukraine.
She says the EU stays Ukraine’s largest donor, with nearly €165bn of help this yr alone. She proclaims additional grants – of €1 and €3bn respectively – signed as a part of in the present day’s convention.
She then proclaims a brand new “flagship” fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine, which she says is the most important fairness fund globally to help reconstruction, specializing in vitality, transport, important and uncooked supplies, and twin use industries.
We are actually taking a stake in Ukraine’s future.
She says the EU is joined within the fund by Italy, Germany, France, Poland, and the European Funding Financial institution.
She then turns to Ukraine’s plans to hitch the EU, as she declares the fee is “able to proceed with the following step on the accession path, to open cluster one” of accession negotiations.
“Now we now have to behave, to maneuver ahead for tens of millions of Ukrainians, troopers, academics, docs, farmers, you title it.
For Ukrainians from all walks of life, and for them, the long run has two flags: the flag of Ukraine and the flag of Europe.”
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€10bn contracts to be signed, Zelenskyy says, as he urges to ‘preserve stress on Russia’
Zelenskyy says that “round 200 agreements are able to be signed” at this convention, with the complete worth of over €10bn, as he singles out vitality as a selected precedence for the approaching months.
Putin has solely two actual allies, terror and winter, and we should reply to each.
He provides:
“All of us should sustain the stress on Russia. All of us should preserve working for defence in order that we will deliver an actual ceasefire as quickly as potential.”
He ends:
Let’s do every thing we will for actual peace as quickly as potential, simply peace. Slava Ukraini.
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Zelenskyy urges leaders to make use of frozen Russian property to rebuild Ukraine
Zelenskyy says Ukraine wants a “Marshall plan-style” effort to information its reconstruction. “We should always develop it collectively,” he says.
He tells leaders that it’s not simply charity, however funding:
“Rebuilding Ukraine isn’t just about our nation. It’s additionally about your nations, your firms, know-how, your jobs, the best way we rebuild our nation can even modernise your infrastructure and industries.”
He then says Europe ought to “clearly agree that frozen Russian property ought to go in direction of Ukraine’s restoration.”
“Not solely the revenue from these property, however the property themselves should be used and far more actively than they’re now to assist save lives.”
Zelenskyy additionally picks up Meloni’s earlier level (11:36) and says “solely associates are invited to be part of Ukraine’s financial and technological restoration,” and never “those that are serving to Russia persevering with this battle.”
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Zelenskyy talks about ramping up Ukraine’s air defence, bringing kidnapped youngsters again
Zelenskyy additionally repeatedly thanks companions for his or her assist thus far, saying it’s due to their assist it was capable of begin constructing a contemporary air power.
“We’ve finished it in report time. No different nation has switched from Soviet plane to F-16 and Mirages this shortly,” he says.
He additionally raises once more the difficulty of Ukrainian youngsters illegally kidnapped by Russia in the course of the battle.
“We should discover each potential solution to deliver our kids again dwelling to their households, to Ukraine, so that they don’t overlook who they’re,” he says.
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‘Enhance your investments when Russia will increase assaults,’ Zelenskyy says
Zelenskyy then calls out Russia’s claims it was prepared for talks and false accusations that Ukraine was not keen to interact as “propaganda.”
Repeatedly referencing final evening’s assaults on Ukraine and Kyiv, he says:
“Now everybody sees that Putin has rejected each peace proposal and is escalating the violence,” he says.
He talks about the necessity to step up Ukraine’s air defence methods, as he says:
I urge all our companions: improve your investments when Russia will increase its assaults.
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Every day Russian assaults on Ukrainian cities quantity to ‘terrorism,’ Zelenskyy says
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy is talking subsequent.
He thanks hosts and companions for supporting Ukraine.
However he then warns them:
“Russia has additionally ready for this assembly. Simply final evening, they launched one other large assault on Ukraine, manly focusing on our capital Kyiv.
Ukrainians now face assaults by tons of, tons of of those drones, each single evening.
And that is pure terrorism.”
He explains:
“That is precisely what Putin needs, for our individuals to undergo, to flee Ukraine, and for houses, faculties, for all times itself to be destroyed in all places, not simply close to the frontlines.”
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Meloni calls out Russia for rising assaults on Ukraine
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni is up subsequent.
After a number of phrases of welcome in English, she too switches to Italian.
She says the excessive attendance with greater than 70 nationwide representations and hundreds of firms and civil society representatives “exhibits … what sort of future all of us collectively need for Ukraine and we’re so satisfied we’ll attain it.”
“We wish to look past the insufferable justice that for greater than three years has been inflicted on the Ukrainian individuals. And we now should think about Ukraine that’s rebuilt, free and affluent,” she says.
She then pointedly calls out Russia for “rising its assaults” in opposition to civilians and civilian infrastructure, praising Ukrainian resilience in opposition to persevering with assaults.
She says the occasion like in the present day’s convention may even serve to make it possible for individuals who helped the Russian battle machine won’t profit from its reconstruction.
“Our activity is to assist Ukraine. We are going to do it, to rewrite this new chapter of its historical past,” she says.
Meloni says the members of the convention will signal new contracts on funding Ukrainian restoration, with new agreements involving Italian companies corresponding to vitality firm Enel and aerospace and defence firm Leonardo.
She instantly addresses European firms and tells them “don’t be fearful of investing in Ukraine” as she says “it’s an funding … in a nation that has proven resilience, but additionally an funding in peace, and within the development of Europe as a complete.”
“I’d prefer to suppose that this convention goes to be the place to begin for the financial miracle of Ukraine.
We are going to construct that miracle along with you.”
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Ukraine Restoration Convention – stay stream
Jakub Krupa
You may observe the welcome speeches in our stay stream beneath, however I’ll deliver you all the important thing strains right here.
Italy’s Meloni hosts Ukraine reconstruction convention – watch stayShare
We wish to ship clear message: Ukraine shouldn’t be alone, Italian overseas minister says
Italian overseas minister Antonio Tajani is opening the Ukraine Restoration Convention in Rome now.
We wish to host this occasion in the present day and tomorrow, as a result of we imagine in Ukraine.
He provides:
This assembly shouldn’t be solely an financial assembly, we wish to ship a transparent message: Ukraine shouldn’t be alone.
We wish to again your freedom, your independence.
He then turns to Italian and speaks about the significance of beginning Ukraine’s restoration already in the course of the battle to help its important infrastructure, together with electrical energy grid stability.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his spouse, Olena Zelenska, European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk pose for a household picture on the primary of the two-day Ukraine Restoration Convention (URC2025), on plans for the reconstruction of Ukraine, in Rome, Italy. {Photograph}: Remo Casilli/ReutersShare
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Leaders arriving for Ukraine Restoration Convention
I’m keeping track of the arrivals on the Ukraine Restoration Convention in Rome.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni arrives to attend the primary of the two-day Ukraine Restoration Convention (URC2025), on plans for the reconstruction of Ukraine, in Rome, Italy. {Photograph}: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters
Within the subsequent hour we should always hear from the host, Giorgia Meloni, but additionally a protracted record of worldwide friends, together with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, European Fee president Ursula von der Leyen, German chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk.
There seems to be a slight delay to the proceedings and Meloni is just welcoming the worldwide friends now – met with Tusk simply seconds in the past – however I’ll deliver you the information strains as quickly as they begin.
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Russian exercise made 2024 ‘one of the vital difficult in fashionable historical past,’ Czech intelligence service says
On account of elevated Russian exercise – together with sabotage planning, tried sanction evasion, state-backed cyber-attacks and disinformation – 2024 was “one of the vital difficult within the fashionable historical past of the Czech Republic when it comes to safety,” the pinnacle of the nation’s safety providers Michal Koudelka mentioned.
In its annual report printed in the present day, the Safety Data Service, or BIS, mentioned Russia “continued in its makes an attempt to revive broader espionage constructions” underneath the diplomatic cowl of its embassy within the Czech Republic.
Along with its officers, the Russian intelligence providers recruited different individuals, together with a named Belarusian asylum seeker who was allegedly paid by the Russian GRU in cryptocurrency to publish pro-Russian propaganda.
The Czech company additionally warned in regards to the rising variety of circumstances of individuals “with no direct connection to Russia” recruited from organised crime teams by way of on-line commercial, significantly on Telegram, which is dubbed “Telegram brokers.”
It famous that Russian recruiters significantly focused poorer financial migrants from exterior the EU, and added that Russian intelligence providers usually used additional intermediaries within the course of, so the particular person employed for the job might not even concentrate on the Russian involvement.
The report mentioned such individuals have been normally tasked with a variety of actions, together with “transporting individuals or packages, photographing and filming delicate objects … to arson assaults.”
It significantly referenced final yr’s arson assault at Prague’s Klíčov bus depot, which it mentioned was carried out by a Colombian citizen who was provided cash by way of web.
The report additionally talked about some hostile exercise from China, together with makes an attempt to “discover sympathisers who would promote China’s pursuits, suppress Czech-Taiwanese cooperation, and [act to] not increase the difficulty of human rights in China.”
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EU’s von der Leyen faces vote of no confidence
Jennifer Rankin
Individually, we will likely be taking a look at the vote of no confidence in Ursula von der Leyen’s European Fee in Strasbourg.
European Fee president Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech at a session of the European parliament in Strasbourg, France. {Photograph}: Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA
Our Brussels correspondent Jennifer Rankin wrote this explainer on what’s at stake.
Here’s what she says:
Von der Leyen is anticipated to comfortably survive a vote on Thursday on the censure movement, which in concept might set off the downfall of her fee.
Whereas her survival is taken into account a certainty, the controversy has lifted the lid on simmering discontent amongst centrist, centre-left and inexperienced MEPs who voted her again into workplace slightly below one yr in the past, after elections that gave rightwing nationalists their best-ever outcomes.
However behind the scenes, her officers are frightened that a lot of no-shows and abstentions from mainstream teams might harm her standing within the vote.
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Morning opening: Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘escalating terror’
Jakub Krupa
Russia launched round 400 drones and 18 missiles in opposition to Ukraine in a single day, with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying the latest assaults mark “a transparent escalation of terror” by Moscow.
A person appears to be like out of a damaged window on the website of a drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine. {Photograph}: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA
He mentioned:
“A whole bunch of ‘shaheds’ each evening, fixed strikes, and big assaults on Ukrainian cities.
This calls for that we pace issues up.
Sanctions should be imposed sooner, and stress on Russia should be robust sufficient that they really really feel the results of their terror.”
The assault comes simply hours earlier than Zelenskyy meets with worldwide components at the Ukraine Restoration Convention in Rome and talks to allies within the Coalition of the Keen.
In an early morning submit, he mentioned the talks will give attention to “extra funding for the manufacturing of interceptor drones and the availability of air defence methods for Ukraine.”
“The targets are completely clear. Such Russian assaults should be met with a troublesome response. And that’s precisely what we’ll ship.”
It’s Thursday, 10 July 2025, it’s Jakub Krupa right here, and that is Europe Stay.
Good morning.
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