Italy's conservative bloc will cut taxes, crack down on immigration and scrap the current system of welfare benefits if it wins next month's election as expected, the group said in a joint manifesto. The conservative bloc includes Giorgia Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy, Matteo Salvini's right-wing League, Silvio Berlusconi's conservative Forza Italia and several minor centrist allies.

A state becomes a party to an ongoing interstate armed conflict when it provides significant operational, logistical, or intelligence support to an existing, active belligerent. States that are currently providing Ukraine with such assistance have thus already entered the armed conflict against Russia. That conclusion should not, however, lead those states to curtail their support of Ukraine’s war effort. Instead, they should redouble their efforts to support the collective defense of Ukraine in full recognition of their participation in the war.

A critical issue in the U.N. is the veto power of Security Council members. If one of the permanent members France, Great Britain, Russia, China or the United States finds some initiative that calls for coordinated international action to be contrary to their national interests, that country has the prerogative to cancel it.

Representatives of about 60 foreign countries and international organizations took part in the work of the International Crimean Platform. In particular, the leaders of the G7, representatives of the African continent and Latin American countries joined the event.

1. Under international law, individuals entitled to prisoner of war status have combatant immunity and cannot be prosecuted for having participated in hostilities or for lawful acts of war committed during the armed conflict.
2. If POWs are charged with crimes, they are entitled to due process and fair trial guarantees.
3. International humanitarian law prohibits the establishment of courts to judge POWs,  willfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial amounts to a war crime.

1.  fight we are in is for something broader and more fundamental than democracy against autocracy. It is the right of peoples the world over to determine their own futures and to be free from naked aggression. This requires an orderly world where the law of the jungle does not operate.

The fact that nondemocratic systems have been so widespread and growing in number is not because evil rules the world, but because in many places circumstances are simply not ripe for stable democracy.

5 December 1994

Signed by: Ukraine, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and United States of America

August 24, 1991: On Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic resolves that:  Ukraine shall be declared an independent democratic state on August 24, 1991. Upon declaration of its independence, only its Constitution, laws, orders of the Government, and other legislative acts of the republic are valid on the territory of Ukraine. - A republican referendum shall be organized on December 1, 1991 to confirm the act of declaration of independence.

Turkey’s balancing act can be measured act along three dimensions: helping Ukraine avoid defeat, avoiding open conflict with Russia while demonstrating solidarity with the West, and increasing Ankara’s regional diplomatic weight. On all three, the Turks have performed reasonably well. Early provision of military aid, especially armed drones, helped blunt the Russian assault on Kyiv. As the grain-corridor deal shows, Turkey’s influential role in the war makes it likely that it will also play an influential role in whatever peace follows.