According to the news, the Ukrainian state power company informed on the 25th local time that the Russian military, influenced by massive missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities, will implement temporary electrical restrictions on some areas from 9 a.m. to 22 p.m. on October 26.

The notice pointed out that the specific time and scope of power rationing may be adjusted based on the power grid load and repair progress.

On Monday, the Canadian Prime Minister¡¯s Office issued a joint statement on Ukraine.

It is understood that Ukraine, together with 14 countries including Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy, as well as 17 parties including the European Union and the European Council, jointly issued this statement.

On October 2, Ukraine President Zelensky (right) talked with European Commission President Von der Leyen during the European Political Community Leaders 'Meeting (Photo/Xinhua Agency)

The statement said that all sides aspire to a just and lasting peace in Ukraine.The sides firmly support an immediate ceasefire and the starting point of negotiations with existing lines of contact.The sides always adhere to the principle that international borders must not be changed by force.

The statement said that all parties are formulating measures to make full use of Russia's frozen sovereign assets to ensure that Ukraine obtains the resources it needs.

According to Xinhua News Agency on October 23, the United States announced on the 22nd that it would sanction Russia's two largest oil companies, urging Russia and Ukraine to cease fire immediately. Europe also reached an agreement on a new round of sanctions against Russia.

According to Bloomberg estimates, the two companies¡¯ crude oil exports together account for 50% of Russia¡¯s total crude oil exports.

In a statement, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent accused Russia of refusing a ceasefire, accusing sanctioned Russian oil companies of funding Russia¡¯s special military operations against Ukraine, saying the U.S. Treasury Department was prepared to ¡°take further action if necessary¡± to support President Trump¡¯s efforts to end the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Trump denied on the 22nd that the United States would provide Ukraine with Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles, calling the relevant report of the Wall Street Journal "" false news."

He said that learning to operate the high-precision Tomahawk long-range cruise missile "requires at least six months, usually one year, of intensive training", and the US military will not teach other countries how to operate it.

Russia has repeatedly warned that if the U.S. supplies Ukraine with ¡°Tax¡± missiles, it will exacerbate the escalation of the situation. Trump once said he had made ¡°some decision¡± on the matter, but later refused to provide Ukraine with ¡°Tax¡± missiles.

Rutte, who met with Trump on the 22nd, said that Trump's reason for not providing Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine was "completely correct".

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Europe plans to freeze $163 billion in Russian assets to Ukraine: Ukraine firmly opposes the settlement

The EU firmly assisted Ukraine and opposed Russia, but "the landlord's family really had no food left" and finally decided to attack Russian assets.

On October 21, local time, leaders of France, the United Kingdom, Germany and other European countries and the European Union jointly announced that they were formulating a plan to use frozen Russian assets of up to US $163 billion to support Ukraine.

According to Reuters, EU leaders and Ukrainian President Zelensky will meet on the issue on 23 local time, but there are clear differences between the two sides on how to use these Russian assets: some European countries demand that the funds be mainly used to buy European-made weapons; but Ukraine is firmly opposed to restrictions and demands autonomy in the use of the funds.

Reports said that Ukraine is urging European countries not to restrict its use of this huge Russian state asset. Uzbekistan argues that they need the funds to buy non-European weapons from countries such as the United States, while repairing the war damage caused by Russian attacks and compensating victims.

A senior official in Zelenskyy's government told Reuters that Ukraine needs to get those funds by the end of the year and have autonomy in how they are spent. According to Reuters, this is the first time that Uzbekistan has publicly elaborated on its position.

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict continues (Photo / TASS)

¡°Ukraine¡¯s position is that any conditionality will undermine the principle of justice,¡± said Irina Mudra, chief legal adviser to the Zelensky government, ¡°who decides how to respond to their most pressing needs of defense, restoration and compensation must be the victim, not the donor or partner.¡±

Mudra said that Ukraine supports cooperation with the European defense industry and is finalizing deals with the largest industrial companies in Europe.

But she also said: ¡°We insist on the autonomy of deciding how to allocate resources between defences.If European countries don¡¯t have enough defence capacity, then we must have the possibility of buying weapons from other countries.¡±

Reuters reported that US weapons such as the Patriot air defense system are crucial to Ukraine's national defense.

After Trump took over the White House in January, it was clear that without new U.S. aid, Europe had to bear more burden.

Meanwhile, data from the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine show that Ukraine has not yet found funds to fill the $18 billion gap in the budget for 2026.

¡°We really want to convince our allies that the funds must be deployed by the end of 2025 to avoid the financing gap and ensure the continuity of military and macro-financial support,¡± she said.

In addition, there are differences within the EU on how Ukraine will use the funds. Some European countries want the funds to be used mostly for European-made weapons, while others say there must be flexibility, according to European Commission documents seen by Reuters. As a compromise, the European Commission recommended that most of the loan be used for Ukrainian and European weapons, with a smaller portion for general budget support.

U.S.-made ¡°Patriot¡± air defense system

After the Russia-Ukraine conflict broke out in February 2022, the United States and Western countries froze Russian state assets. According to the European Union, 210 billion euros (about 1.75 trillion yuan) of Russian assets are currently frozen, most of which (about 183 billion euros) is held by the Belgium-based Bank for European Settlements (Euroclear). Ownership of these assets belongs to the Russian Central Bank.

The Russia-Ukraine peace talks are at a stalemate and the EU's own budget is tight, so it has long been interested in Russian assets.

Earlier this month, EU leaders expressed widespread support for the idea of using frozen Russian assets to provide a $163 billion loan to Ukraine.The EU will further push the plan after the 23 meeting, after which the European Commission will put forward a formal legal proposal.

However, Reuters, EuroNews Network and other media have previously pointed out that the confiscation and use of foreign sovereign assets has almost no precedent in international law, and has been called a "legal minefield" by many experts. Under international law, sovereign assets cannot be confiscated. EU diplomats also acknowledge that the plan needs to address many legal and technical challenges.

According to "Russia Today" (RT), on the 22nd local time, Italian Prime Minister Meloni publicly warned that the EU must respect international law in any plan to use frozen Russian assets.

Russia accused the EU of illegally seizing Russian assets and warned of retaliation.

In August this year, Fadeyev, deputy director of the Information and Information Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Russia had noticed that the European Commission had used the proceeds from freezing the assets of the Russian central bank to allocate a new batch of financial assistance to the Ukraine government, which was an escalation of Western economic aggression against Russia in its mixed war.

Fateyev responded that the West was trying to formulate new false claims to seize Russian assets or its management gains, but that could not change the criminal nature of its intentions. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a clear legal qualification for this behavior in the West, which is ¡°robbing.¡±

Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that the "smarter" government opposed the seizure of Russian assets because "they understand that this move will fundamentally undermine all principles of international economic activity and, undoubtedly, the international financial system".