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Bomb threat phone calls cause mass evacuations in Ukrainian airports
On Friday, November 10, a wave of phone calls about bomb threats in airports swept across Ukraine.
Service was suspended in particular at Odessa International Airport, one of the largest airports in the country.
"Today at 12:00, an unknown man called to the Director's office at Odessa International Airport and said that there [was] a car in a parking lot near the airport that contained explosives," the local police website said. Explosives specialists and service dogs were sent to the …
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Lithuanian Minister of Defense: Lithuania will continue to supply lethal weapons to Ukraine
The position of Lithuania regarding the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine remains unchanged, Ukrinform reports, citing Lithuanian Minister of Defense Raimundas Karoblis.
"Regarding lethal weapons, we already provided them several years ago. And our position remains unchanged: we are ready to provide [weapons] in the future, but, of course, based on our capabilities," he stressed.
Karoblis recalled that Lithuania provides Ukraine with all kinds of assistance, from training of Ukrainian …
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Ukraine to increase number of its troops in Afghanistan
Ukraine will increase its contingent in Afghanistan, said Vadym Prystaiko, the Head of Ukraine’s Mission to NATO, to reporters in Brussels, as a correspondent of LB.ua reports.
Prystaiko did not specify how many Ukrainian troops are already in Afghanistan or how many people would be added. He did say that it would be less than a hundred.
“It might be military, including, for example, military instructors and not just coaches. It might be police coaches, it might be security forces, and it …
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Poland denies entry to Ukrainian historian
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland barred entry into the country for the Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Volodymyr Viatrovych, as reported by dziennik.pl.
A few days ago, the head of the Polish Foreign Ministry, Witold Waszczykowski announced that Poland had begun the procedure for imposing a ban on entry on an official who blocked the exhumation of Polish victims killed in Volhynia.
The Polish edition confirms that the ban was precisely for Viatrovych. …
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Poland agreed to hold Presidential Consultation Committee with Ukraine
Chief of the Cabinet of the President of Poland, Krzysztof Szczerski, agreed to Ukraine’s proposal to hold a meeting of the Consultative Committee of the President of Poland and Ukraine in the near future, as reported by Polskie Radio.
It was noted that Poland is ready to accept the Ukrainian delegation "to clarify the state of Polish-Ukrainian relations." According to the presidential office, it will be "one more opportunity, after visits to Ukraine by the First Deputy Prime Minister, Piotr …