Christian Lowe

5 days ago | japantoday.com | Christian Lowe |Gergely Szakacs

Ukraine and Hungary said on Friday they were expelling two diplomats each after each side accused the other of engaging in espionage. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, writing on the X social media platform, announced the action after Kyiv's SBU security agency said it had uncovered a spy network run by the Hungarian state to obtain intelligence about its defense.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Christian Lowe |Gergely Szakacs

By Christian Lowe and Gergely SzakacsKYIV/BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Ukraine's SBU security agency said on Friday it had uncovered a spy network run by the Hungarian state to obtain intelligence about its defences, with Hungary responding to what it called "propaganda" by expelling two people at the Ukrainian embassy in Budapest. The SBU said in a statement it had detained two suspected agents who, it said, were being run by Hungarian military intelligence.

6 days ago | gazette.com | Christian Lowe |Gergely Szakacs

By Christian Lowe and Gergely SzakacsKYIV/BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Ukraine and Hungary said on Friday they were expelling two diplomats each after each side accused the other of engaging in espionage. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, writing on the X social media platform, announced the action after Kyiv's SBU security agency said it had uncovered a spy network run by the Hungarian state to obtain intelligence about its defence.

1 week ago | theglobeandmail.com | Valentyn Ogirenko |Christian Lowe |Pavel Polityuk |Lidia Kelly

1 week ago | mining.com | Pavel Polityuk |Christian Lowe |Veronica Brown

The financial payoff from a new minerals deal between Ukraine and the US is likely to take a decade or longer as investors face many hurdles to getting new mines into production in the war-ravaged country. Developing mines that produce strategically important minerals in countries with established mining sectors such as Canada and Australia can take 10 to 20 years, mining consultants said on Thursday. But most mineral deposits in Ukraine have scant data to confirm they are economically viable.