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    Kyiv Protests Putin’s Visit To Annexed Crimea
    Aug11

    Kyiv Protests Putin’s Visit To Annexed Crimea

    The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has protested Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest visit to Ukraine’s Crimea region, calling a it a “gross violation” of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Ukraine Searches Russian Vessel Over Fuel Delivery to Crimea
    Aug11

    Ukraine Searches Russian Vessel Over Fuel Delivery to Crimea

    KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian prosecutors said they had searched a Russian vessel in the Black Sea port of Kherson on Saturday as part of an… …read more Source: U.S....

    US-Based Experts Suspect Russia Blast Involved Nuclear-Powered Missile
    Aug10

    US-Based Experts Suspect Russia Blast Involved Nuclear-Powered Missile

    U.S.-based nuclear experts said Friday they suspected an accidental blast and radiation release in northern Russia this week occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vladimir Putin last year.The Russian Ministry of Defense, quoted by state-run news outlets, said that two people died and six were injured...

    Scientists hope to sell vodka made from grain grown in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone
    Aug10

    Scientists hope to sell vodka made from grain grown in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone

    Would you drink anything distilled from crops grown within the exclusion zone surrounding a nuclear waste site? A group of scientists hope so and have created the first bottle of “Atomik,” a vodka made from grains cultivated from the Chernobyl disaster area.What are the details?The researchers from Britain and Ukraine have launched...

    Escape Room
    Aug09

    Escape Room

    If you like mysteries, you’ll love the Escape Room. It’s a live-action game where players use clues and solve tasks to escape from a room in a limited amount of time. VOA Ukrainian; Reporter: Maxim Moskalkov, Camera: Andrey Degtyarev; Adapted by:Zdenko Novacki …read more Source: Voice of...

    Europe Poised to Put Warning Labels on Jewish-Made Products
    Aug09

    Europe Poised to Put Warning Labels on Jewish-Made Products

    The European Union is poised to mandate that Israeli products made in contested territories carry consumer warning labels, a decision that could trigger American anti-boycott laws and open up what legal experts describe as a “Pandora’s box” of litigation, according to multiple sources involved in the legal dispute who spoke to...

    US Envoy Tells Germany: Spend More on Defense or We Move Troops to Poland
    Aug09

    US Envoy Tells Germany: Spend More on Defense or We Move Troops to Poland

    An envoy of U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Friday that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s unwillingness to boost defense spending might give the United States no choice but to move American troops stationed in Germany to Poland.The comments by Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, signal Trump’s impatience with...

    Trump Says Ukraine’s New President, Zelenskiy, to Visit White House Soon
    Aug09

    Trump Says Ukraine’s New President, Zelenskiy, to Visit White House Soon

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday that Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was going to be invited to the… …read more Source: U.S....

    ‘Our Chernobyl’ Or Fisherman’s Paradise? Ukraine’s Lake Sasyk
    Aug09

    ‘Our Chernobyl’ Or Fisherman’s Paradise? Ukraine’s Lake Sasyk

    Ukraine’s Lake Sasyk was created artificially when Soviet engineers separated a lagoon from the Black Sea and flooded it with water from the Danube. Critics say it’s an environmental disaster, but others say it has created a unique ecosystem. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    US, Ukraine Diplomats: West Underestimated Russian Threat in 2008
    Aug09

    US, Ukraine Diplomats: West Underestimated Russian Threat in 2008

    This story originated in VOA’s Georgian and Ukrainian services.Eleven years after Russian tanks rolled through a mountain tunnel in the Greater Caucasus mountains to invade neighboring Georgia, State Department officials say the U.S. underestimated the geopolitical implications for all of Western Europe. “What happened 11 years ago...