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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on world leaders to repair the system of regional security in Europe by ending Russia’s war in the east of Ukraine and returning the Crimean peninsula from Russian occupation at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 15. “It’s not entirely correct to say ‘the war in Ukraine.’ This is the […]

Addressing the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 15, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky repeated his plea for Western support, while indicating his openness to hold local elections in the separatist-held regions of Donetsk and Lugansk together with the rest of the country in October. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill […]

President Volodymyr Zelensky hopes for an increase in US military and security assistance to Ukraine. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate

The U.S. secretary of state has declared that “the West is winning” as he pushed back against assertions that Washington was retreating from global engagement, and against warnings from Germany’s president about a new “great power” competition. Read more here.

MOSCOW– The Libyan settlement, the situation in Syria, and the settlement of the conflict in Donbas were in the focus of a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his German counterpart Heiko Maas, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 56th Munich Security Conference on Feb. […]

WARSAW — Ukrainians working abroad remitted the most remuneration back to their motherland from Poland in 2019, amounting to 3.8 billion U.S. dollars. Read more here.

Turkey said it has fulfilled its responsibilities in Syria’s Idlib region and warned it would take “necessary steps” if diplomatic efforts with Russia fail, amid a continuing Syrian government offensive on the last rebel-held region in the country. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

The Black Sea is of strategic importance for NATO and NATO has a presence in the Black Sea. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate

A Russian biathlete will be stripped of his 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics gold medal after being found guilty of doping violations, according to the International Biathlon Union (IBU) website. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

A Chinese tourist has died in France after contracting the new coronavirus – the first fatality from the disease outside Asia. Read more here.

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 14 said he has “the legal right” to interfere in criminal cases, capping a tumultuous week that raised questions about whether he is eroding the independence of the U.S. legal system. Read more here.

SIMFEROPOL – Employees of the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) border department branch for Crimea have detained a small-size vessel with four citizens of Ukraine onboard in the western part of the Sea of Azov. The FSB press service said on Feb. 15 that Ukrainians didn’t have identification documents. “The captain of the ship failed to […]

NATO’s secretary-general offered a robust defense of the alliance’s importance, downplaying disagreements over trade and defense policy, and calling on European allies and the United States to do more to work together. Read more here.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the US Senators for bipartisan support and told about his desire to change Ukraine’s image in the world. Read more here.

Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Oleh Churiy says the regulator expects several foreign players to come to the Ukrainian foreign exchange market this year after foreign banks were allowed to trade among themselves in Ukraine’s national currency, the hryvnia. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill […]

BRUSSELS — China and its increasingly sophisticated and far-flung military sit atop U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s list of international security worries, but in Europe a bigger concern is closer to home: Russia. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

On Feb. 14, the armed formations of the Russian Federation violated ceasefire in Ukrainian eastern region of Donbas 13 times. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate

BEIRUT — A military offensive on an opposition-controlled region of northwestern Syria has created one of the worst catastrophes for civilians in the country’s long-running war, sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing, many of them sleeping in open fields and under trees in freezing temperatures. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest […]

MOSCOW – Russia said on Feb. 14 it had asked Canada to hand over case files on a 95-year-old former Nazi death squad member living in Canada to help Moscow with an investigation into the mass murder of children at a Soviet orphanage in 1942. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs […]

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says he will try to negotiate with his colleagues from France, Ukraine, and Russia on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on holding the next Normandy Four Summit in Berlin. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate