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Kremlin prepares for Putin-Trump meeting
Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov said that Kremlin experts plan to prepare the agenda for the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump during the coming G-20 Summit in Argentina, Interfax News reported. He said that during their meeting in Paris, the leaders of the two countries confirmed their intention to hold a meeting in Buenos Aires.
“Saying goodbye in Paris, Trump said, “Well, see you in Buenos Aires!” Our president expressed an approval,” Ushakov said in an interview with the “ …
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Yanukovych 'injured' the day before his final address in Ukrainian court
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was reportedly injured the day before his final address at the Obolonskyi District Court of Kyiv city, where he is being tried for high treason.
He was hospitalized on Friday, November 16, although news of this only came out on Sunday, RIA Novosti reports.
“He was, but he is not with us any more. He came on Friday, was given assistance, and was discharged on the same day,” the Sklifosovsky Emergency Care Institute in Moscow told the news outlet. …
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Ukraine considers buying light weapons from Canada
Ukraine is negotiating with Canadian arms producers the possibility of purchasing light weapons, said in an interview with the UNN news agency the political counselor to the Canadian embassy in Ukraine and head of the foreign policy and diplomacy department, Rouslan Kats.
“About a year ago Canada included Ukraine in the list of countries that Canadian companies can sell weapons to (Automatic Firearms Country Control List). This was not allowed before,” said Kats.
According to him, this allows …
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Monument to victims of Holodomor opened in Hungary
On Friday, November 16th Ukrainian ambassador to Hungary Liuba Nepop wrote on her Facebook page that in Hungary in the city of Szeged a monument to those who died during Holodomor (man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932) was opened.
Nepop noted that the deep symbolic meaning both Hungarian and Ukrainian representative took part the grand opening.
"For me personally it is deeply symbolic that in today 's momentous opening in Szeged remembering those who died in Holodomor in Ukraine 1932-33, …
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Vatican says it will continue providing help to war victims in Donbas
Holy See Representative Cardinal Peter Turkson announced that the Humanitarian Initiative of Pope Francis has gathered 16 million euros worth of assistance in two years to Ukrainians affected by the war in the Donbas. “The church sends help whenever a war like the east of Ukraine breaks out, just as we did for Syria, Iraq, and Sudan,” Hromadske.TV, quotes the Cardinal as saying.
According to him, priority was given to the reconstruction of damaged houses and their insulation, as well as the …