Home › Politics › What did 17 June 2024 bring to diplomacy?
What did 17 June 2024 bring to diplomacy?
Summary
A look back at a day shaped by the diplomacy of the days before it, and a border dispute between Warsaw and Berlin.
What did the diplomatic picture look like on 17 June 2024? Several threads from the preceding days framed it, while a new dispute emerged between two neighbours.
On 11 June, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the European Union would give Ukraine €3.4 billion (USD$3.6 billion) throughout the summer, drawn from revenue on frozen Russian assets.
On 13 June, U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a ten-year security agreement meant to strengthen Ukraine's defensive capabilities.
On 14 June, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ready for a ceasefire if Ukraine withdrew from Russian-claimed territories and halted its accession to NATO. Ukraine rejected the offer.
A dispute on the Polish border
On 17 June 2024 itself, attention in Poland turned to a recorded incident in Osinów Dolny, just east of the Germany–Poland border. In the footage, German police appeared to abandon a migrant family on the Polish side. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk ordered Germany to explain what had happened.
Taken together, the reports from those days show Ukraine's partners committing money and security guarantees, Moscow setting out conditions that Kyiv refused, and a separate argument over border conduct between Warsaw and Berlin.
