Overview

• Italy and Ukraine co-hosted the URC2025 conference in Rome, convening over 5,000 attendees from around 100 governments and 40 international organizations
• Donors pledged more than €10 billion toward Ukraine’s post-war recovery, exceeding commitments from previous reconstruction summits
• Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced a new €300 million Simest fund to back Italian SMEs participating in Ukraine’s rebuilding projects
• The United Kingdom and Ukraine formalized an agreement for the delivery of 5,000 Thales air-defense missiles to Kyiv to bolster its anti-air capabilities
• US Special Envoy Keith Kellogg joined the Coalition of the Willing call for the first time alongside President Macron and Prime Minister Starmer, underscoring unified Western pressure on Moscow