President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he had addressed Chinese President Xi Jinping during their phone conversation with a call to assist in the return of Ukrainian children deported to Russia. “We spoke [with Xi Jinping] about the return of our people, prisoners and the return of our deported children. There are about 20,000…
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Producer of Italian publication La Repubblica Bohdan Bitik was killed and Italian journalist Corrado Zunino was wounded as a result of Russia’s shelling attack on Kherson, Culture and Information Policy Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko has said. “Ukrainian producer of Italian publication La Repubblica Bohdan Bitik was killed as a result of Russia’s shelling attack…
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The President of Ukraine has appointed Pavlo Riabikin as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the People’s Republic of China. As reported on the presidential official portal, this is enshrined in Decree of the Head of State No. 239/2023 of April 26, 2023. From November 2021 to March 2023, Riabikin was the Minister for…
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The business of the Ukrainian industrial and investment group Smart Holding is grinding to a halt due to the seizure of corporate rights, wells, gas in underground storage facilities and restrictions on settlements, Group CEO Yulia Kiryanova has said. “Now, due to name of our former beneficiary Vadym Novynsky, the entire team of Smart Holding…
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High Representative of the European Union for Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, is convinced that a solution regarding EUR 1 billion for the purchase of ammunition for Ukraine will be found in the coming days. He said this on Monday before the start of the meeting of the EU Council on Foreign Affairs, which is…
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Rocket and artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 31 Russian invaders and more than two dozen pieces of Russian equipment on the occupied left bank of the Dnipro River in Kheron region over the past 24 hours, the Pivden task force reported on Facebook on Friday. In particular, a mortar, an artillery…
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The United Kingdom imposed sanctions on three Russian citizens on Friday in connection with the conviction of opposition activist and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza (designated as a foreign agent in Russia), the British Foreign Office said in a statement. The restrictions have been imposed on Andrei Zadachin, a high-profile case detective with the Russian Investigative Committee’s…
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Metinvest B.V., the parent company of the Metinvest international vertically integrated group of steel and mining, continues meeting it obligations, announcing that it has redeemed the remaining principal amount of Senior Notes due 2023 on time and in full despite the material impact of the war in Ukraine on its business. Commenting on the news,…
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he expects a package of security guarantees to be adopted at the NATO summit in Vilnius. “We need something more than the current format of relations. We want to understand when Ukraine will be in NATO. We want security guarantees along the way. At the same time, we…
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The last-minute settlement of Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News defused a high-stakes test of the First Amendment protections afforded to the media. But more challenges are likely on the horizon. Nearly 60 years after the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which made it harder for public figures to…
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