Contents tagged with Zelensky
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Ukrainian President: likelihood remains that Nord Stream 2 will not be launched
Ukraine should use the time required to launch the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to protect its interests and energy security, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with the journalists from Washington Post, Liberation, Funke Media, NV and Novaya Gazeta.
Zelensky noted that Nord Stream 2 is among the priorities on the agenda of his meeting with US President Joseph Biden in Washington.
"It still has a long way to go, even if 1% of the work remains until the full completion …
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Merkel to visit Ukraine for talks with Zelensky
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky, reported Ukrainian Presidential Spokesperson Serhiy Nikiforov on his Facebook page.
According to him, Merkel is expected to arrive in Ukraine on August 22. During the visit, the Chancellor intends to discuss with Volodymyr Zelensky regional security, bilateral relations between Germany and Ukraine, as well as a number of other issues.
On August 4, the Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration, …
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Zelensky instructs Ukrainian Security Service and Interior Ministry to provide protection to immigrants from Belarus
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky instructed the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to provide protection to immigrants from Belarus who need it.
"Every Belarusian who can become a target for criminals due to his or her public political position should receive special and reliable protection. The SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs should work out a clear algorithm for assessing possible risks, as well as a system of responses to these risks in …
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Zelensky appoints new Commander-In-Chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces
Ukraine is going through major changes in its power structures. After new appointments in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the SBU and the Foreign Intelligence Service, the changes have reached the Army. Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Ruslan Khomchak has been replaced by Major General, Commander of the Pivnich (North) Operational Command, Valery Zaluzhny.
Khomchak headed the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for two years. He says that during this time, the …
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Zelensky: Russian weapons near Ukrainian, Moldovan and Georgian borders threaten entire Europe
In his speech in Georgia at the Batumi International Conference, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he believes that Russian weapons threaten not only Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, but also the whole of Europe.
Zelensky stressed that if the European Union does not show firm support for the European aspirations of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, then Russia immediately shows the iron muscles of its weapons near the borders of these three states.
According to Zelensky, Russian weapons …
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Zelensky: Merkel’s and Macron’s proposal for direct talks with Putin is unfair to Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that the proposal of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron for direct negotiations with Vladimir Putin is unfair towards Ukraine.
In an interview with the Lithuanian publication LRT, Zelensky said that he believes that a personal meeting between the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the President of the United States, Joe Biden, is "their right." According to Zelensky, these are large countries, which …
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Belarusian opposition leader Tikhanovskaya says she had unofficial meetings with Zelensky
The Belarusian opposition leader, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, said in an interview with the Ukrainian news outlet Segodnya that she had informally met with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Tikhanovskaya noted that she is "in touch" with the Ukrainian government. She said that she talked online with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba once.
In addition, Tikhanovskaya says that a few days ago she met with Zelensky face to face at one of the events Lithuania.
The leader of the …
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Zelensky wants to discuss Nord Stream 2 with Merkel
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he intends to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and discuss with her the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
"Tthere will be an important meeting with Mrs. Merkel on energy security not only for Ukraine, but also for Europe. Thanks God that Europe does not feel these threats yet," Zelensky said at a press conference with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda in Vilnius.
The Ukrainian President stressed that security, not the economy, should be …
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Kremlin: there are no plans for Putin and Zelensky meeting
The Kremlin is currently not preparing for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, TASS reports.
According to Peskov, the words of Zelensky that Ukrainians and Russians are not “same people”, "do not fit into the process of preparing the meeting" of the leaders.
"And, by the way, if we abstract from such unsuccessful statements from our point of view, there is no substantive preparation …
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Putin: Zelensky has placed Ukraine under external management
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he did not see any urgency in meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky but did not refuse it.
"Why meet with Zelensky, if he gave his country under full external management. Key issues of Ukraine's life are solved not in Kyiv, but in Washington, partly - in Berlin and Paris. What's there to talk about? Nevertheless, I do not refuse meetings of this kind, we just need to understand what to talk about," Putin said during the annual TV program " …