Austria had insisted Brussels unfreeze Russian assets to compensate for penalties imposed by Moscow, but has now dropped the demand ahead of a vote scheduled for 20 October.
Ukraine is as popular as NATO, while Zelenskyy ranks above Rubio and Hegseth in popularity. US voters back Trump’s Ukraine peace push, but doubt he can end the war.
Ukraine’s sanctions envoy said that Moscow’s drone assembly plants in Tatarstan and Izhevsk can’t operate without imported microcontrollers and digital converters.
Russia is pressing the UN’s aviation body to lift sanctions on spare parts and overflights, claiming they violate “human rights,” even as its airlines scramble for Western components and its Belarusian ally faces fresh scrutiny over backdoor transfers.