Aliaksandr Kudrytski

5 days ago | rigzone.com | Aliaksandr Kudrytski |Kateryna Chursina

Ukraine’s parliament ratified a deal with the US over access to the country’s natural resources, lending its full support to attempts by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to improve ties with Donald Trump. Ukraine and the US reached the accord a week ago after long negotiations that led Washington to drop its insistence on getting back billions of dollars in aid delivered to Kyiv since the start of Russia’s invasion more than three years ago.

5 days ago | bloomberg.com | Aliaksandr Kudrytski |Marton Kasnyik

(Bloomberg) -- Ukraine and Hungary expelled diplomats in a tit-for-tat move that followed the detention of two people who authorities in Kyiv said had been spying for its European Union neighbor. The relations between the countries have deteriorated sharply after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban emerged as Ukraine’s main antagonist in the EU since Russia’s invasion began. He’s opposed military aid to the war-torn country and maintained friendly ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

6 days ago | bloomberg.com | Aliaksandr Kudrytski |Kateryna Chursina

Excavators at a graphite mine in the Kirovohrad region, Zavallya, Ukraine. (Bloomberg) -- Ukraine’s parliament ratified a deal with the US over access to the country’s natural resources, lending its full support to attempts by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to improve ties with Donald Trump.

2 weeks ago | insurancejournal.com | Aliaksandr Kudrytski

Kyiv detained a ship it says was part of Moscow’s “shadow fleet” which illegally exports grain from areas of Ukraine occupied by Russian forces. A dry cargo ship was detained in Ukrainian territorial waters as it headed from Moldova along the River Danube and into the Black Sea, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine said on its website Friday. Investigators did not specify the cargo nor name the ship, which Ukraine’s security services said had sailed under the flag of an Asian nation.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Kateryna Chursina |Aliaksandr Kudrytski

Russian servicemen outside an Ukrainian military base in Simferopol, Crimea, in 2014. (Bloomberg) -- Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged that Ukrainian forces would be unable to regain control over Crimea and said the US won’t have to commit troops as part of security guarantees in an apparent overture to President Donald Trump. Trump is seeking to build momentum to end the war as his second term approaches the 100-day mark.