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The US Senate voted to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism on July 29. The US Senate approved a resolution calling on the State Department to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism for its actions in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, and Ukraine, reported the NYT. "The armed forces of the Russian Federation committed numerous executions of innocent civilians and tried to cover up their atrocities with mass burials throughout Ukraine," the resolution text reads. A similar resolution has been submitted to the House of Representatives, the lower house of the US Congress. However, the representatives and senators cannot make the decision to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism on their own, it must be made by the State Department. There are currently four countries on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism: Syria, Iran, Cuba, and North Korea.
$1 billion in assets of Russian, Belarusian companies seized in Ukraine. In the five months of Russia’s full-scale invasion, courts in Ukraine have seized the assets of Russian and Belarusian companies worth Hr 39.5 billion ($1 billion), the press service of the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police reported. Law enforcement officers also seized vehicles worth Hr 1.3 billion ($35 million), which are currently being used by Ukraine's Armed Forces.
G7 ambassadors ‘welcome appointment’ of Ukraine’s new
anti-corruption prosecutor. “This is a leap forward in making Ukraine's anti-corruption architecture fit for purpose,” reads the statement by G7 ambassadors to Ukraine. "Now Ukraine has to make sure SAPO has all the resources and institutional independence it needs to tackle high-level corruption.” Oleksandr Klymenko, 35, was appointed as the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office on July 28. The post was unoccupied for two years.
Ukrainian strikes cause ‘further damage to key Antonivsky Bridge’ in occupied Kherson. However, Russia has conducted repair works and as of July 22, the bridge was “almost certainly open to some traffic,” according to the July 23 intelligence update by the U.K. Defense Ministry. The ministry said that it has not been possible to verify claims by Ukrainian officials that “Russia is preparing to construct an alternative, military pontoon bridge across the Dnipro River.” “The Russian army prioritizes maintaining its military bridging capability, but any attempt to construct a crossing of the Dnipro would be a very high-risk operation,” the ministry said.
Zelensky fires Security Council deputy secretary Demchenko. President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree to fire Ruslan Demchenko, first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (RNBO), on July 25. Demchenko has occupied the post since June 2020. According to an investigation by RFE/RL's program Schemes published in November 2021, Demchenko lobbied for the signing of the so-called Kharkiv accords in 2010, an agreement between Ukraine and Russia that in exchange for some discounts on gas allowed Russia to extend the lease of its naval base in Crimea and eventually helped Russia in its 2014
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