Changes from plenary report to adopted text

Change 1

ChangedD. whereas, despite broad international condemnation and unprecedented sanctions, Russia is escalating its war efforts through targeted attacks on critical energy infrastructure, residential buildings and civilian infrastructure;infrastructure, as well as on cultural heritage and religious sites, such as the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra; whereas millions of people in Ukraine survived the recent freezing winter temperatures with limited electricity, heating and running water; whereas the environmental damage caused by Russia over the past four years has also had devastating consequences for Ukraine’s natural resources and critical ecosystems and for its people’s health, livelihoods and security;

Change 2

ChangedJ. whereas, in response to Russia’s war of aggression, the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine and the Damage Register for Ukraine were set up in The Hague, and the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine is in the process of being established; whereas the Commission has adopted a proposal initiating the process for the European Union to become a founding member of the Special Tribunal; whereas the International Criminal Court has indicted Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova for war crimes; whereas an International Claims Commission for Ukraine was inaugurated on the margins of the 135th session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Chisinau,Chișinău, Moldova on 14 May 2026; whereas the International Claims Commission will strengthen the capacity to ensure accountability for international crimes committed in and against Ukraine and to uphold Ukraine’s right for full reparation of damages following from Russia’s illegal actions;

Change 3

AddedX. whereas the joint statement signed on 11 December 2025 by Commissioner Marta Kos and Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka (known as the Kos-Kachka plan) is a 10-point reform priority plan to be implemented by the end of 2026; whereas those reforms concern strengthening the rule of law, judicial procedures and the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions; whereas the full and unequivocal implementation of these steps will be an important tangible demonstration of Ukraine’s commitment; whereas relevant think tanks judge that approximately 15 % of the plan had been implemented by mid-2026;

Change 4

AddedAD. whereas the new law on public procurement, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 27 May 2026 and came into force on 24 June 2026, is widely considered to be a genuine reform, aligned with EU legislation and establishing transparency and anti-corruption safeguards for large tenders; whereas the adoption of this legislation unlocked USD 3,4 billion in direct budget support for Ukraine from the World Bank;

AddedAE. whereas on 15 June 2026, the EU opened accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova on Cluster 1: Fundamentals, consisting of: Chapter 23: Judiciary and fundamental rights, Chapter 24: Justice, freedom and security, Chapter 5: Public procurement, Chapter 18: Statistics, and Chapter 32: Financial control; whereas negotiations on the fundamentals cluster are the first to be opened and the last to be closed in the accession process and progress on that cluster determines the overall pace of negotiations;

AddedAF. whereas various Member States have circulated non-papers on the dynamics of Ukraine’s EU accession and options to reinforce future EU accession treaties;

AddedAG. whereas joint analysis by the European External Action Service and Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation has identified Russian foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) strategies and operations to undermine and erode public support for Ukraine’s EU accession process, in both Ukraine and the EU;

Change 5

Changed11. Calls for the EU and its Member States to combat Russian disinformation about theits war,war of aggression and Ukraine’s EU accession process, by fully restricting activities associated with Russian state-controlled media organisations and their contributors across EU Member States, extending relevant individual sanctions lists, pursuing legal accountability for those complicit in state-run propaganda, strengthening digital literacy, promoting fact-based information with special attention to countries specifically targeted by Russian propaganda outside Europe and holding social media platforms accountable for spreading harmful content by strictly enforcing the Digital Services Act;

Change 6

Added18. welcomes the G7 leaders’ statement on Ukraine of June 2026, including the commitment to (a) support the new momentum on the battlefield and its acceleration, including by considering extending to Ukraine the benefit of licenses to allow for an increase in Ukraine’s military production and (b) increase the pressure on the Russian war economy; calls for the EU and its Member States to take all necessary steps to ensure practical implementation;

Change 7

Changed19.20. Calls, in light of the need for greater pressure on Russia, for increased and more comprehensive and structural sanctions against Russia and its allies, with the aim of depriving it of resources necessary to finance its military machine and sustain its aggression against Ukraine, including targeted individual sanctions under the EU Global Human Rights and Sanctions Regime (EU Magnitsky Act) against those responsible for grave human rights violations; calls for greater alignment of sanctions lists with those of like-minded partners; strongly calls for increased administrative capacity and financial resources to improve design, implementation and enforcement of EU sanctions; insists that no sanctions should be lifted before a peace agreement is negotiated and sustainably implemented; calls on the Council and the Member States to systematically tackle the issue of sanctions circumvention; emphasises that sanctions are having a clear impact on the Russian economy, but reiterates that the sanctions regime needs to be broader and its implementation stricter if it is to have the required effect of limiting Russia’s funds for its war of aggression; calls, therefore, for the reinforcement and expansion of sanctions targeting Russia’s primary sources of revenue, including but not limited to the energy, raw materials, financial and transport sectors; calls for the EU and its Member States to work in a coordinated manner towards banning trade and commercial activities with Russia and Belarus, paying particular attention to goods and technologies with potential dual-use applications, and to prohibit the transit of goods to and from the Union via their territories; calls for a full ban on Russian steel products;products and on the export of alumina to Russia;

Change 8

Changed20.21. Calls for intensified efforts to dismantle Russia’s shadow fleet operations, which pose a substantial and growing risk to maritime safety,safety and the environment, particularly in the strategically vital Baltic Sea; calls in this regard for closer cooperation between authorities in Member States around the Baltic Sea to ensure shadow fleet operations are stopped effectively; urges the Member States to strictly respect EU legislation and halt all imports of the Russian liquefied natural gas and natural gas, revenues from which have been steadily supporting the Russian war machine and undermining the effectiveness of EU sanctions and the EU’s support for Ukraine;