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What happened in Ukraine diplomacy by 18 June 2024?
Summary
A look back at the diplomatic developments reported in the days before 18 June 2024, from a US–Ukraine security pact to a rejected Russian ceasefire offer.
What had changed in the diplomacy around Ukraine by 18 June 2024? In the preceding days, reports pointed to a new security pledge from Washington, a ceasefire condition from Moscow that Kyiv refused, and a separate row between two of Ukraine's neighbours.
A ten-year pact
On 13 June 2024, US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a ten-year security agreement. It was aimed at strengthening Ukraine's defensive capabilities.
Putin's conditions
On 14 June 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ready for a ceasefire if Ukraine withdrew from territories Russia claimed, including areas that Ukraine had liberated, and abandoned its accession to NATO. Ukraine rejected the offer.
A dispute between neighbours
Separately, on 17 June 2024, 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.
Taken together, the reports from 13 to 17 June 2024 showed a US commitment spanning a decade, a ceasefire proposal that Kyiv turned down, and a diplomatic demand from Warsaw to Berlin on an unrelated matter.
