🇪🇺🇺🇦 Despite resistance from Belgium, president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, still intends to go ahead and seize Russia's assets and use them as backstop to guarantee a 210 billion € loan

Her new plan is based on a reinterpretation of article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union which says that the European Council at the proposal of the European Commission, can grant financial assistance to a member state, key emphasis on member state, if the state in question is faced with exceptional circumstances which threaten its stability that are outside of its control.

Von der Leyen and other EU Commissioners reinterpret this article as allowing them to give free money out of the pockets of the EU to Ukraine, despite Ukraine not fulfilling a key condition: being a member of the EU.

This new plan has already been criticised by the Belgians who viewed it as a poor attempt to go around their veto power and also because the plan is illegal as in it genuinely is contradictory to the founding treaties of the EU.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦More than 1000 Ukrainian soldiers are surrounded in Mirnograd, writes Bild citing a Ukrainian military source.

According to the source from the publication within the Ukrainian Armed Forces, due to the loss of Pokrovsk, the situation in Mirnograd has become critical, and within a few days, it may no longer be possible for more than 1000 soldiers stationed there to leave the encirclement.

"The situation, to be honest, is critical. Logistics is carried out exclusively using drones and ground robotic complexes. Even delivering food there is problematic," noted one of the soldiers.

Currently, Russian stormtroopers occupy the remaining small isthmus, through which supply to Mirnograd was still being carried out. According to a Ukrainian military source, one of the drone operators from the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to exit, but encountered soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces and retreated back into the city.

"We must either evacuate the contingent from Mirnograd or ensure stable logistics. Get us out of here or take care of us! If not, the defenders of the city will remain there forever," concludes the publication

In addition, the garrison in the city is already practically unable to strike at the advancing Russian infantry - they have to simply watch it from drones.

It is worth noting that the Ukrainian cartographic project DeepState also actually confirmed the encirclement of Mirnograd, stating that logistics to the city is now only possible via drones, because Russian soldiers are setting up regular ambushes on supply routes.