At their meeting in Berlin, the Foreign Ministers of the Normandy Four were unable to reach a consensus with Russia regarding Kiev’s conditions for elections in Donbas. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine in reference to statements made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin.

“We have not come to an agreement. Russia has presented their own versions of the electoral legislation. I have told the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, that we are perfectly capable of …

According to Radio Svoboda, Gennady Afanasiev’s lawyer, Alexander Popkov, reported that the two illegally convicted Ukrainians, Gennady Afanasiev and Yury Soloshenko, were transferred from penal colonies where they were serving their sentences to the Lefortovo detention center in Moscow. Afanasiev was brought from Syktyvkar by plane and Soloshenko came by train from Nizhny Novgorod.

Popkov hopes that the transfer of his defendant is connected with the extradition process that was initiated by …

The Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Oleksandr Danylyuk, during an interview with journalists on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), stated that Ukraine is still planning to issue Eurobonds under U.S. guarantees. However, the exact entrance dates to the borrowing market are unknown.

“Firstly, we should receive guarantees. We have it in our plans,” Danylyuk said.

In April, Danylyuk said that Ukraine expects to return to the markets …

The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, confirmed his participation in the NATO summit in Warsaw, stating that at the meeting he will support strengthening the eastern border of the Alliance.

This was reported by Christopher Szczerski, an envoy from the Polish president’s office, after a meeting between Trudeau and Polish President Andrzej Duda.

During their meeting, Trudeau stressed that only cooperative work between all members of the Alliance will help deter the threat lying to the …

The Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned Russian Ambassador Alexander Veshnyakov over his remarks in the media, as announced by the Press Secretary of the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Raimonds Jansons.

According to Jansons, the Ministry is concerned by the remarks made by Veshnyakov which appeared in several media sources.

In his interview to the newspaper Vesti Segondya, Veshnyakov stated that "in Latvia, and several other countries, one can observe a deliberate …

British warships, while on a NATO mission, escorted a Russian frigate which was en route from the Black Sea to the Baltic and was crossing British territorial waters.

This was reported by the British newspaper "The Telegraph"

Over the weekend the frigate Admiral Grigorovich was tracked by British HMS Iron Duke and was further followed by HMS Sutherland as far as the Channel.

The Dutch ship HNLMS Rotterdam and the Belgian BNS Castor also joined the British vessel.

“The Admiral Grigorovich …

Ukraine and Canada expect to complete all negotiations this summer for their free trade zone agreement. According to a UNIAN correspondent, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine Roman Waschuk said this during a briefing.

"We are hoping that we will be able to do everything [to complete the negotiation process] by this summer,” the Ambassador said. He stressed that the two governments are doing everything to ensure that all procedures have been completed. …

Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman and the Director of the IMF's European Department, Poul Thomsen, discussed the further cooperation between Ukraine and the IMF.

"At hard times like this, support is of utmost importance for Ukraine, especially the support of the IMF. But we also consider our cooperation as an opportunity to implement structural reforms which will make it possible to transform Ukraine from a post-Soviet state into a modern European country," Groysman stated during the …