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Germany is ready to provide security guarantees to Ukraine, but not those of NATO. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on July 6 that the federal government could not specify the security guarantees it is ready to provide to Ukraine yet, and they must be discussed with their allies in the North Atlantic Alliance, reported Sueddeutsche. Scholz said that Germany is sticking to its earlier promise to join Ukraine's security guarantees, but there is no promise of automatic military assistance in the event of an attack. He added that specific guarantees are currently being discussed with partner countries and Ukraine, but, according to the German chancellor, it is evident that they cannot be "such as correspond to Article 5 of the Washington Treaty."
The flow out of Ukraine exceeded the flow into the country. The number of people traveling out of Ukraine through its western border on July 6, for the first time in the last 12 days, exceeded the number of those entering the country. This happened the day after the publication of the decision for the need for all conscripts to obtain a new exit permit, which, however, was canceled the very next day. According to data from the state border service, on July 6 39,000 people left the country compared to 36,000 the day before, while 37,000 people arrived in Ukraine against more than 37,000 leaving on Tuesday. At the same time, according to data from the Polish border service, the situation on their section of the Ukrainian border remained unchanged. Since the beginning of the war, 4.6 million people have arrived in Poland from Ukraine, while in the opposite direction, 2.7 million have left.
Ukraine appointed a new head of the anti- corruption prosecutors’ office after months of delay on June 19, fulfilling a requirement from the European Union and other international financial donors. A commission picked up Oleksandr Klymenko, a former anti- graft bureau detective, to lead Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), according to an online
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