The Belarusian Telegraph Agency (BelTA) reports that during a working visit to the Dzyarzhynsk District in Minsk Oblast, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has ordered to search for new export markets due to issues with exports to Russia.  

"We need to clarify things. If they are going to pressure us no matter what, we will seek our fortune in other places," said Lukashenko.

He added that he will meet with President Vladimir Putin after his inauguration to "address all the issues in …

According to a Facebook post by the State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) with reference to the General Directorate for National Roads and Highways of Poland, Warsaw has unveiled plans to build a high-speed highway called the S12, which will join the Yagodin checkpoint on the border with Ukraine.

The highway will be 75 km in length, have two lanes on each side, and end in the Polish city of Piaski. Along the road infrastructure, facilities such as gas stations and …

In March, the volume of natural gas transported through the territory of Ukraine amounted to 8.1 billion cubic meters, an increase of 21.3% from the same period in 2017, Ukraine’s national gas and oil company Ukrtransgaz reported.

Ukrtransgaz also reported that despite Russia’s systematic failure to ensure contract pressures in gas pipelines at the entrance to Ukraine’s gas transport system, the company fulfilled requests for gas transportation on time and in full. The average daily transit …

Volodymyr Omelyan, Ukraine's infrastructure minister reported that the test construction of the ultra-high-speed transport system in the vacuum environment of Hyperloop One in Ukraine is scheduled to begin in 2019.

"First, the National Academy of Sciences will provide the scientific foundation for this new transport type. If it is sufficient for us to move to the stage of technological development and testing, we need to get the official agreement of Hyperloop One and other companies," he said …

Ukraine is prepared to swap twenty Russians currently held in Ukrainian prisons in exchange for the release of Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia.

Iryna Herashchenko, First Deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and Ukraine's representative to the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine, said that this issue will be raised on in Minsk on Wednesday, April 4.

"The Working Group [is meeting] on April 4 in Minsk ... the second issue that we will raise there is the …

The lawyers of the ex-President of Georgia, the leader of Rukh Novykh Syl ("Movement of New Forces"), Mikheil Saakashvili have filed a lawsuit in court against the decision to ban him from entering Ukraine until February 13, 2021, the party's press service reported.

"To protect the rights of Mikheil Saakashvili, the lawyers filed a lawsuit in the Lviv District Administrative Court to recognize the decision as unlawful and to repeal the Mostisky border guard detachment's resolution to ban the …

Kurdistan 24 news outlet reports, citing the Joint Chief of Defense in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), Razan Gilo, that the French military entered northern Syria through the Tal Abyad crossing which is under the control of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Razan Gilo said that at least 50 French soldiers entered the Syrian border-town of Tal Abyad this morning

The French soldiers have also been reportedly deployed to northeastern Aleppo town of Manbij, which is controlled by the …

Radio Liberty reports that Rob Portman, a Republican US senator, has said that the United States will provide Ukraine with defensive weapons, including Javelin anti-missile systems, in order to enable the country to defend itself against aggression by Russia and pro-Russian militants.

“I think the right thing for the United States [and] for others to do on behalf of Ukraine is to allow them to purchase weapons to be able to defend themselves, including these new weapons that are being …