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What did 18 June 2024 follow in diplomacy?
Summary
A look back at the diplomatic events in the days before 18 June 2024, from Putin's ceasefire conditions to a US-Ukraine security pact and a Polish demand for answers from Berlin.
What had the days leading up to 18 June 2024 produced in regional politics? A run of announcements on Ukraine's war and on relations between neighbours.
On 13 June 2024, US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a ten-year security agreement. It was meant to strengthen Ukraine's defensive capabilities.
On 14 June 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he was ready for a ceasefire on two conditions: that Ukraine withdraw from Russian-claimed territories, including liberated areas, and that it stop its accession to NATO. Ukraine rejected the offer.
On 17 June 2024, a separate dispute surfaced between two neighbours. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk ordered Germany to explain a recorded incident in which German police appeared to abandon a migrant family in Osinów Dolny, Poland, just east of the Germany–Poland border.
Where things stood on 18 June 2024
By 18 June 2024, then, the diplomatic picture combined a new bilateral security commitment between Washington and Kyiv, a Russian ceasefire proposal that Ukraine had turned down, and a request from Warsaw for an explanation from Berlin.
