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UKRAINE

NATO chief meets Zelensky on assistance

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg traveled to Kyiv on Monday where he held a joint news conference with President Volodymyr Zelensky. They discussed aid for Ukraine during their meeting in Kyiv, the government-run Ukrinform news agency reported on Monday. "Today we discussed Jens' initiative to create a special fund for the financial support of Ukrainian defense worth 100 billion euros ($107 billion) for five years," Zelensky told reporters during a media briefing. For his part, Stoltenberg said that some NATO members have agreed to increase their support for Kyiv. According to media reports, Stoltenberg arrived in Kyiv earlier in the day on an unannounced visit.

UNITED KINGDOM

5,700 migrants to be deported to Rwanda

The first asylum-seekers to be deported from Britain to Rwanda will come from a group of 5,700 people that Kigali has agreed in principle to take, according to a British government document published on Monday. Under a plan that has divided political opinion in Britain, anyone who has arrived illegally after Jan 1, 2022, is eligible to be deported to Rwanda. More than 50,000 people have arrived since that date, official figures show. Last week, Britain passed legislation that aims to override a UK Supreme Court ruling that the policy was unlawful by declaring that Rwanda must be treated as safe by judges and officials. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he expected the first flights to take off in 10 to 12 weeks.

Agencies - Xinhua