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Ukraine president plans to implement land reform this year
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukraine will implement land reform this year and that his government would carry out major privatizations. …read more Source:...
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 8 Aug 2019
Corbyn to ‘take taxi to Queen and offer to govern’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would jump in a taxi, drive to Buckingham Palace and tell the Queen “we’re taking over” if Boris Johnson loses a no-confidence vote, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has warned. His comments at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival yesterday follow reports that...
Putin and Zelensky hold talks after Ukrainian soldiers are killed
Flare-up in violence in separatist-held regions is big test for Kiev’s new president …read more Source: Financial...
Resume peace talks, Ukraine’s Zelenskiy urges Putin after four soldiers killed
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday pressed Russian leader Vladimir Putin for a resumption of peace talks after four Ukrainian soldiers were killed by shelling in the eastern Donbass border region. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says called Putin after four soldiers killed
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he had a phone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday morning following the deaths of four Ukrainian soldiers in shelling in the eastern Donbass region. …read more Source:...
Ukraine calls for more peace talks after four die in eastern Donbass
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the leaders of Russia, Germany and France to resume talks on a peaceful solution to the separatist conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region after four soldiers were killed in shelling on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Shelling kills four Ukrainian soldiers in eastern Donbass
Enemy shelling killed four Ukrainian soldiers in the eastern Donbass region on Tuesday, the military said, reporting the highest death toll in a single day since last October. …read more Source:...
Boot-camp shakes Ukraine’s parliamentary ‘nobodies’
Zelensky’s novice MPs are given crash course in how to govern country …read more Source: Financial...
Head of Ukrainian presidential office submits letter of resignation
The head of the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has submitted his letter of resignation after two months in the service, a statement published on the presidential website said on Friday. …read more Source:...
How the Baltic states spot the Kremlin’s agents
THE TIP was sent by a city tech worker: a single person could, in one fell swoop, disable almost every traffic light in Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital. It proved true, says Aurimas Navys, a former officer at Lithuania’s State Security Department. Mr Navys, who had received the tip despite his recent retirement, made sure the...
