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Apr 9, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | Viktoriia Stepanenko
April 4 marks the founding day of NATO. On this day in 1949, representatives of 12 countries, including the United States, Great Britain, France, Canada, Italy, and Norway, signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, which was ratified later the same year. US President Harry Truman declared at the signing ceremony: “Men with courage and vision can still determine their own destiny. They can choose slavery or freedom – war or peace…”.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | Viktoriia Stepanenko
Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, announced on Sunday that he will submit for consideration a bill with more than $60 billion in aid to Ukraine after the Easter recess, which ends on April 9. However, the package may include “some important innovations,” among which Johnson mentioned the credit terms and the possibility of using frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine’s recovery.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | Viktoriia Stepanenko
Former freelance adviser to the Office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Artem Shylo is suspected of heading a group that embezzled money from Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways), Kyiv Post sources in law enforcement said.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | Viktoriia Stepanenko
Following a Feb. 26 European leaders conference in Paris about strengthening support for Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters that despite the lack of consensus on sending ground troops to Ukraine, “nothing could be ruled out.” Other EU leaders promptly denied that any such plan was on the cards, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. However, Macron stands by his position.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | Viktoriia Stepanenko
Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the only leader of the Euro-Atlantic community who congratulated Vladimir Putin on his “victory” in the so-called presidential elections in Russia.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | Viktoriia Stepanenko
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is set to visit France in early May for bilateral talks with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, Politico wrote this citing several officials in Paris and Brussels. It will be Xi's first official trip to Europe since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | Viktoriia Stepanenko
What House leadership says House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaking at a weekly press conference on Wednesday said “The clock is ticking, and we have to get the bipartisan national security bill over the finish line before we leave town next Friday, March 22. It’s reckless to do otherwise.” Jeffries urged GOP leaders to get the foreign aid package that the Senate has already passed ready to be signed by US President Joe Biden by the end of next week.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | John Moretti |Leo Chiu |Viktoriia Stepanenko |Stefan Korshak
China has sent its Special Representative for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui on a “shuttle diplomacy” tour, visiting Russia, Belgium, Poland, Ukraine, Germany and France. This is not Li’s first diplomatic visit to resolve what China has called the “Ukraine crisis,” but a revival of efforts, with Russia’s full-scale invasion entering its third year raising questions as to the true intention behind Beijing’s latest move.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | Viktoriia Stepanenko |Julia Struck |Stefan Korshak
A road accident involving a Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft artillery system was caught on camera in Sochi, Russia. Footage from a street surveillance camera was posted initially on local Russian social media on Thursday, Feb. 29. Russian media publish a video of Pantsir-C1 air defense complex falling over in Sochi.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | Viktoriia Stepanenko |Julia Struck |Stefan Korshak
A year ago, Ukraine's top diplomat, Dmytro Kuleba, admitted that Ukraine is suffering from a shortage of his kind. “We are about to take an unprecedented step – we are creating an open mechanism that allows both diplomats inside the system and people outside it to offer their candidacy for an ambassadorial post,” Kuleba wrote, announcing that Kyiv would be searching for ambassadorial candidates to 21 countries.
