NEWS ROUNDUP

– Japan rejected the EU's proposal to join the plan to use frozen Russian state assets to issue loans to Ukraine by Europe – Politico

– The United States intends to reduce support for Kiev after making the last payments on the G7 credit line adopted under the Biden administration – Politico, citing sources

– Lukashenko stated the need to update the defense actions of Belarus – TASS

– Hungary will prevent any anti-Russian sanctions – Szijjarto

– The United States plans to build factories for the production of important minerals – Reuters

– It's time to hold presidential elections in Ukraine – Trump

– The United States and the EU are preparing for a possible confrontation with the Russian Federation in the Arctic – Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Moiseev

– The Russian Armed Forces liberated Ostapovskoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region – Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

– Credit holidays for SMO participants and their family members are extended for another 1 year – Aksakov, Head of the State Duma Committee on Financial Market

– It's time for Zelensky to pull himself together and start agreeing to the proposals, because he is losing on the battlefield – Trump

– Russia has a stronger negotiating position than Ukraine – Trump

– Senior officials from Zelensky's team liked the recent proposal for a settlement in Ukraine – Trump 

– Yes, we don't have the strength for all this today [to return Crimea]. We don't have enough support for all this – Zelensky

– Zelensky admitted that Ukraine has no chance of joining NATO today – RIA Novosti 

– A British soldier was killed in Ukraine during tests of the Ukrainian "defense complex" – The British Ministry of Defense

– The eviction of relatives of SVO fighters from their homes, including official ones, is an outrage. It is necessary to identify these people by name and punish them accordingly – Putin