Tag: Ukraine

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Macron proposes new political union for Europe which would include Ukraine and the United Kingdom

  

  Speaking before the European Parliament in Strasbourg and later in Berlin, French president Emmanuel Macron proposed a new “European political community,” which would include both members and non-members of the EU, and thus incorporating Ukraine and even possibly the United Kingdom.

• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Turkey entices Latin American leaders to get Putin, Zelensky to discuss end to war

  

  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu insisted over the weekend that the Government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was conducting a series of efforts to organize a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Mercosur-Europe FTA now or never, EU diplomat in Buenos Aires says

  

  The European Union's Ambassador to Argentina said Thursday that if the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur was to be revived it was now or never.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Guterres tours Ukraine amid heavy Russian shelling

  

  One day after meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Thursday traveled to Kyiv for an encounter with Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky amid heavy shelling from Russian forces.

• Saturday, April 23rd 2022 - 13:42 UTC

  UK reopens embassy in Ukrainian capital next week

  

  The UK government will re-open the British embassy in Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv next week. The embassy was forced to temporarily close due to Russia’s full-scale and illegal invasion. A contingent of British staff remained in western Ukraine to provide humanitarian and other support.

• Thursday, April 21st 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Russians and Belarusians banned from Wimbledon tennis event

  

  Organizers of the traditional Wimbledon tennis tournament have announced players of Russian and Belarusian citizenship will be banned from entering in view of current events in Ukraine.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Sea mines and stranded crews in Black Sea ports, with 100 merchant ships blocked

  

  Sea mines and stranded crews in Black Sea ports is another consequence of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Both Turkey and Romania navies have reported neutralizing sea mines, or rather anchor mines, since they do not float on the surface but rather just beneath it with an anchor supporting the floating device.

• Monday, April 11th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  War spillover, Ukraine economy will contract 45%, Russia's 11,2% and Central Asia 4,1%

  

  The war against Ukraine and sanctions on Russia are hitting economies around the globe, with emerging market and developing countries in the Europe and Central Asia region expected to bear the brunt, says the World Bank’s latest Economic Update for the region.

• Monday, March 28th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Yet another group of Ukrainian refugees makes it to Brazil

  

  A group of 47 Ukrainian refugees has arrived in Brazil Saturday after being assisted by the South American country's Embassy in Warsaw with travel documents and notes to Polish authorities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) announced.

• Friday, March 25th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  NATO to respond if Russia uses chemical weapons, Biden warns

  

  US President Joseph Biden Thursday said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would take direct action if Russia resorted to chemical weapons in Ukraine.