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Added:14. Urges the Member States to actively pressure Hungary to end its blockade of the EPF, including the newly established Ukraine Assistance Fund;

Added:15. Strongly condemns the use of sexual and gender-based violence as a weapon of war and stresses that this constitutes a war crime; calls on host and transit countries to guarantee access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services, particularly emergency contraception, post-exposure prophylaxis and abortion care, including for survivors of rape;

16. Reiterates its call for the EU to step up efforts to address the dire situation of those forcibly deported to Russia and children forcibly adopted in Russia, including by sanctioning persons directly responsible for and involved in the forced transfer and unjustified detention of Ukrainian children;

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Removed:9. Welcomes the signing of the joint security commitments between the European Union and Ukraine and calls for the Commission and Member States to act swiftly to effectively implement the commitments made;

Added:17. Urges Hungary to withdraw the decree cancelling state-funded shelter for refugees from western Ukraine and uphold its responsibilities under the EU Temporary Protection Directive;

Removed:10. Underlines that insufficient or delayed deliveries of weapons and ammunition risk undermining efforts made so far and therefore urges the Member States to substantially increase and significantly accelerate their military support as a matter of the utmost urgency, in particular the provision of weapons and ammunition in response to clearly identified needs, including TAURUS missiles; emphasises that a significant number of the systems that Ukraine was supposed to receive after the decision taken at the NATO Summit have not yet been delivered; condemns limitations imposed on the use of western arms for legitimate military targets in Russian territory that contradict Ukraine’s rights under international public law; believes that the EU must show leadership in this fight against impunity and for peace;

Added:18. Calls on the Council to maintain and extend its sanctions policy against Russia and Belarus and non-EU countries and entities providing the Russian military complex with military and dual-use technologies and equipment, while monitoring, reviewing and enhancing the policy’s effectiveness and impact; condemns Iran’s recent transfer of ballistic missiles to Russia; urges the Member States to further broaden and strengthen the sanctions regime against Iran and North Korea in view of these countries’ military support for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and to add additional Chinese entities and individuals to the EU sanctions list for their support to Russia’s defence and security sector; calls on the Council to systematically tackle the circumvention of sanctions by EU-based companies, third parties and non-EU states; calls on the Council to design a new horizontal sanctions regime to counter this circumvention, which will require a more general and holistically applicable instrument to target circumvention in all regimes implemented by the EU;

Removed:11. Deeply deplores the declining financial volume of bilateral military aid to Ukraine from Member States, despite strong statements made at the beginning of this year, which are now being contradicted by recent governmental decisions and the severe problems of the overall functioning of the EU’s key mechanism (EPF) to incentivise bilateral military aid to Ukraine; regrets the announcement by Germany that it intends to decrease funding for Ukraine in its state budget; stresses that use of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine financially is at the moment still only a theoretical proposal as the legal framework to make this possible is yet to be established; notes that such funds should be considered additional and cannot replace funding for Ukraine from existing state budgets;

Added:19. Stresses that the impact of existing sanctions and of financial and military support to Ukraine will continue to be undermined as long as the EU allows Russian fossil fuels to be imported; calls for a ban on importing Russian grain, potash and fertilisers, as well as raw materials, including aluminium, steel products, uranium, titanium, nickel, wood and wood products, and gas and oil; calls for the EU and the Member States to introduce a full ban on re-exported Russian refined oil products; calls, furthermore, for the implementation of ‘rules of origin’ documentation, which would ensure the true origin of oil products imported to the EU;

Removed:12. Echoes VP/HR Borrell’s assessment of Hungary’s unacceptable blockade of up to EUR 5.68 billion of EFP funds, which are supposed to reimburse parts of bilateral military aid and have now been partially frozen for over a year and a half; calls on EU Member States, the President of the Commission, and the VP/HR to do their utmost to end or overcome Hungary’s veto as a matter of urgency;

Added:20. Calls on the G7 countries to more effectively enforce the price cap imposed on Russian seaborne oil and to crack down on the loopholes used by Russia to repackage and sell its oil at market prices; calls for the EU and its Member States to exercise strict control over Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’, which, in addition to violating EU and G7 sanctions, poses an immense ecological threat to the ecosystem as a result of its technical deficiencies and frequent breakdowns;

Removed:13. Calls for the EU and its Member States to redouble their efforts to ensure the right quantity and quality of military support to Ukraine along with the right timing of delivery and rights of use that would tangibly allow Ukraine to re-establish its territorial integrity; reiterates its previous position that all EU Member States and NATO allies should collectively and individually commit to supporting Ukraine militarily with no less than 0.25 % of their GDP annually;

Added:21. Calls for a full embargo of Russian liquefied natural gas and sanctions against Gazprom and Russian oil companies; calls for the EU to impose the requirement that Arc-7 ice-class vessels exporting Russian liquefied natural gas be included on the sanctions lists of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control and of the EU, denying them access to ports or Western maritime services; calls for the EU and its Member States to impose targeted sanctions on maritime vessels used by Russia to circumvent sanctions on its oil and gas exports and servicing of its energy projects in the Arctic;

Removed:14. Calls on the Council to maintain and extend its sanctions policy against Russia and Belarus, while monitoring, reviewing and enhancing its effectiveness and impact; stresses that the impact of existing sanctions, as well as financial and military support to Ukraine, will continue to be undermined as long as the EU allows Russian fossil fuels to be imported; is strongly concerned about China and other countries deemed to be helping Moscow’s war effort;

Added:22. Calls for sanctions on Russia’s nuclear sector and targeted sanctions against perpetrators of violations of nuclear safety and security at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant;

Removed:15. Calls for a ban on importing Russian grain and fertilisers, as well as raw materials, including aluminium, steel products, uranium, titanium, nickel, wood and wood products, and gas and oil; calls for a full embargo of Russian liquefied natural gas and sanctions against Gazprom and Russian oil companies; calls for the EU to impose the requirement that Arc-7 ice-class vessels exporting Russian liquefied natural gas be included on OFAC and EU sanctions lists, denying them access to ports or Western maritime services; calls for the EU and its Member States to impose targeted sanctions on maritime vessels used by Russia to circumvent sanctions on its oil and gas exports and servicing of its energy projects in the Arctic; calls for the EU to introduce a full ban on refined products produced from Russian oil;

Added:23. Condemns the increasing number of hybrid attacks carried out by Russia against the EU, its Member States and candidate countries, aimed at weakening European support for Ukraine through information manipulation, sabotage, covert destabilisation attempts and corruption; calls for the EU and its Member States to work strategically and proactively so as to counter hybrid threats, strengthen EU strategic communication and prevent Russia’s interference in political, electoral and other democratic processes in the EU and its neighbourhood;

Removed:16. Calls for sanctions on Russia’s nuclear sector and targeted sanctions against perpetrators committing violations of nuclear safety and security at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant; calls for a ban on passenger flights from non-EU countries to Russia and vice versa passing through the EU’s airspace; calls for the EU and its Member States to stop importing re-exported Russian refined-oil products;

Added:24. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the President, Government and Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Russian Government and the other governments concerned, and the United Nations.

Removed:17. Calls on the Council to systematically tackle the circumvention of sanctions by EU-based companies, third parties and third states; further calls on the Council to adopt and strictly implement restrictive measures against all entities and affiliated natural persons facilitating the circumvention of sanctions and providing the Russian military complex with military and dual-use technologies and equipment;

Removed:18. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the President, Government and Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and the United Nations.