(Bloomberg) -- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he had detailed discussions with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid about Kyiv’s request for defense systems to help thwart Russian missiles and Iranian-made drones. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he hosted Switzerland’s president in Kyiv Thursday and expressed gratitude for the country’s freezing of $6.5 billion in Russian assets. “This is where Switzerland does not have to be morally neutral.”(See RSAN on the Bloomberg Terminal for the Russian Sanctions Dashboard.) “The role they play in the Ukrainian war is more and more clear,” De Croo told reporters ahead of the second day of the EU summit in Brussels. Mordashov, the biggest shareholder in steelmaker Severstal PJSC, was sanctioned by the European Union, the UK and US following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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