Ukraine today summoned the Bulgarian ambassador, following statements by Bulgarian President Rumen Radev that the Crimean peninsula is part of Russia after its annexation in 2014 by Russia. In a debate ahead of Bulgaria’s second round of presidential elections on Sunday, Radev said Western sanctions against Moscow had not had the expected effect and that […]
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Ukraine: We must allocate money for a fence on the border with Russia – Belarus
Ukraine should allocate money in next year’s budget to build a fence on its border with Belarus and Russia to prevent a possible influx of illegal immigrants, Interior Minister Denis Monastirsky told parliament on Friday. Monastiski said Ukraine was planning new military exercises in the next two weeks to prepare in the event of migrants […]
A ‘storm’ breaks out in the Black Sea: Turkey’s contradictory policy towards Ukraine
When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky 18 months ago at the Mariinsky Palace on a hilly bank of the Dnieper River, he greeted the honorary guard with the traditional Ukrainian slogan Slava! (“Glory to Ukraine!”). The honor guard reciprocated the usual response in seconds: “Glory to the Heroes!” Russia’s response […]
France: Russia ‘broke’ the diplomatic protocol for Ukraine
Moscow’s publication of confidential diplomatic correspondence between France, Germany and Russia on the Ukraine issue violates diplomatic protocol, France said on Thursday in another “episode” of deteriorating relations between Russia and the West. On Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry released a series of diplomatic letters exchanged with Germany and France to show that its diplomatic […]
Ukraine took weapons from Turkey and now wants ‘defense’ weapons from the West because of Russia’s ‘aggression’
Ukraine wants to buy “defense” weapons from the West to counter Russia’s “aggression” on its borders, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said today. “Russia’s aggression has increased significantly in recent weeks,” Kuleba told a news conference. In this context, Kiev is negotiating with the West “the conclusion of agreements for additional deliveries of defense weapons […]
Ukraine: The new wave of the epidemic particularly affects children
“It’s hard when your baby suffocates, it scares you,” says Katia Verbina, placing an oxygen mask on her son, who is infected with covid-19, a new wave that is hitting Ukraine hard. Misa, three months old, has already spent ten days in the pediatric hospital for infectious diseases in Kiev due to pneumonia. His 29-year-old […]
NATO: ‘Large and unusual’ concentration of Russian troops on border with Ukraine
LAST UPDATE: 14.20 NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that there has been a “large and unusual” concentration of Russian troops on Ukraine’s border in recent weeks. “We are seeing an unusual concentration of Russian troops,” Stoltenberg told a joint news conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba in Brussels. “We have to have a […]
US-Polish FM: Lukashenko distracts from Russian aggression against Ukraine
The heads of the US and Polish diplomats condemned, after their telephone contact, the treatment of immigrants by the government of Belarus, as announced by the State Department, while at the same time expressing their solidarity with Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. “Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has reaffirmed US support for Poland’s […]
Russia denies plans to attack Ukraine – Blinken concern
Russia today dismissed as inflammatory a report that Moscow was considering an attack on Ukraine and accused the United States of making a series of offensive moves in the Black Sea. “Such headlines do nothing but fuel a void of content and an unfounded escalation of tension. Russia poses no threat to anyone,” said Kremlin […]
‘Russian invasion of Ukraine possible’ – US warns EU
The US is sounding the alarm in the European Union that Russia is considering a military invasion of Ukraine, as tensions between Moscow and the “27” bloc escalate due to the migration crisis on the Belarus-Poland border, but also due to energy crisis, reports Bloomberg. As Washington monitors the gathering of Russian forces near the […]
