Ukraine's diplomatic week ended with aid, a pact and a Kremlin offer
A look back at the developments around 17 June 2024, from Western financing and a security agreement to Moscow's ceasefire terms.
What was the political backdrop to 17 June 2024? For Ukraine, it was a few days in which money, security guarantees and competing proposals about the war all came into view.
On 11 June 2024, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the European Union would give Ukraine €3.4 billion (USD$3.6 billion) throughout the summer, drawn from revenue on frozen Russian assets.
Two days later, on 13 June 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a ten-year security agreement intended to strengthen Ukraine's defensive capabilities.
On 14 June 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ready for a ceasefire if Ukraine withdrew from Russian-claimed territories, including areas Ukraine had liberated, and halted its accession to NATO. Ukraine rejected the offer.
A separate dispute in Poland
Elsewhere in the region, on 17 June 2024, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk ordered Germany to explain a recorded incident in which German police appeared to abandon a migrant family in Osinów Dolny, Poland, just east of the Germany–Poland border.
The items were unconnected, but together they marked the diplomatic picture in the days around 17 June 2024: financing and security commitments from Ukraine's partners, a rejected ceasefire proposal from Moscow, and a border dispute between two neighbouring EU states.
