EU foreign ministers expressed their support for Ukraine in a historic meeting in Kyiv on Monday after a pro-Russian candidate won an election in Slovakia and the US Congress removed military aid to Ukraine from a budget bill. Kyiv dismisses concerns that support for its military effort is waning on both sides of the Atlantic. “We do not feel that US support has wavered… because the United States understands that the stakes in Ukraine are much higher than in Ukraine,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

Basic information about the war in Ukraine, day 587, LIVETEXT:

06:58Italy is working on the eighth package of weapons that will be sent to Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani met with Zelenskyi on the sidelines of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Kyiv.

01:23 Unofficial Telegram channels in Russia report that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s will bequeathed his assets and control over his business empire to his 25-year-old son Pavel Prigozhin.

00:41The White House has spoken with allies about possible delays in new funds for Ukraine

A quick summary of the latest information:

• Ukraine has excluded the Hungarian bank OTP from the list of “international sponsors of war”, which includes companies accused of financially supporting the Russian invasion, the NAZK reported on Monday.
• Ukraine’s victory depends on cooperation with Europe, Zelensky told EU foreign ministers who gathered in Kyiv on Monday for an informal meeting that was not announced in advance.
• Russia is “allocating a huge amount of resources” to create divisions among Kyiv’s allies, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Monday, hours after the Kremlin commented on the West’s “fatigue” in helping Ukraine. The Kremlin said on Monday that “fatigue” with support for Ukraine will grow among Western citizens as EU foreign ministers try to prove otherwise when they meet in Kyiv.
• Russia said on Monday that the decision by the US Congress to pass a law that avoids defunding the US government but does not provide aid to Kyiv does not mean that Washington’s multibillion-dollar support for Ukraine will change soon.
• Russians again needed about 100 rubles to buy a dollar on Monday, the exchange rate before the country’s central bank raised its key interest rate to try to stem the slide.
• A senior Ukrainian official has called for a re-evaluation of Western anti-aircraft systems being supplied to Ukraine, saying simpler and cheaper weapons may be more cost-effective in countering Iran-made Russian Shahed drones.
• Slovakia accuses Russia of “interference” in Slovakia’s parliamentary elections held on Saturday and is summoning a diplomat from the Russian embassy in Bratislava.
• The Republic of Moldova will no longer buy gas from Gazprom, Moldovan Energy Minister Victor Parlykov said on Monday.
• ​Numerous foreign companies, including from the West, continue to generate billions of rubles in revenue in Russia despite sanctions and calls for a boycott of the country led by Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine
• A Ukrainian tank commander called a Russian factory that manufactures T-72 tanks to complain about numerous problems with a machine captured by his unit in the Russian army.

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• Monday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro