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Turkey ready to send peacekeepers to Donbas
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko discussed with the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu the situation in the Donbas, expounding on the idea of introducing the UN peacekeeping mission to the region.
"President Petro Poroshenko informed Turkey about the situation in the Donbas. In addition, an exchange of views took place on the situation in the Crimea occupied by Russia. They discussed the release of Ukrainian political prisoners from …
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Ukraine is invited to the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting for the first time
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine was invited for the first time to attend the meeting of the Heads of Foreign Affairs Ministries of the G7 countries, which will begin in Toronto on April 22, Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko informed Ukrainian internet newspaper Evropeyska Pravda.
According to Shevchenko, for the first time in its history, Ukraine will be present at a full-fledged, planned event of the G7 member states.
"The time has come for serious, strategic …
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Poroshenko criticizes Nord Stream-2 prior to his visit to Germany
In an interview with the German publication Handelsblatt, just one day prior to his visit to Germany, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline a “political bribe”, and suggested drawing attention to the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS).
Germany is one of the countries most committed to the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The pipeline, according to blueprints, will run along the bottom of the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, and will …
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Journalist: Two convoys of Russian infantry vehicles headed towards Ukraine
On April 7, residents of the Russian settlement Petrovka in the Rostov region filmed a convoy of BMD infantry fighting vehicles that were moving toward the border with Ukraine, reports Voice of America journalist Fatima Tlisova on Twitter.
Residents told the journalist that this is the second convoy of Russian BMDs that drove through their settlement. Each BMD can carry three crew members and five airborne troops. The distance from Petrovka to the border with Ukraine is more than 80 km. …
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Media: About 1 billion USD is required to organize industrial production of Ukrainian MSB-2 helicopter
Around 1 billion USD is required for the creation and organization of mass production of Ukrainian helicopters. The MSB-2 light helicopter, which was first created as part of experimental development work by Korolek, is currently being tested by the factory. The aircraft company is planning to raise 600 million UAH of the whole amount independently.
In an article on ZN.ua by Dmitri Mendeleev, the expert states that according to the most conservative estimates, implementation of such a project …