• Ukraine and Azerbaijan pledge to support each other in restoring sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh and Crimea

    During the meeting in Baku, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev confirmed the immutability of the official position of the two countries on Nagorno-Karabakh and Crimea, reports the press service of the Ukrainian President.

    "An important topic of today's conversation is regional and national security. First of all, we are talking about the war in eastern Ukraine and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. We continue to support each other in restoring the …

  • Ukraine bans Russian Zvezda TV channel's correspondents from entering Ukraine for three years

    Speaker of the Security Service of Ukraine Elena Gitlyanskaya said in a comment to Interfax-Ukraine that the employees of the Russian Defense Ministry TV channel Zvezda, who entered the territory of Ukraine on December 12, have been banned from entering the country for three years.

    "The crew of the Zvezda TV channel has been banned from entering Ukraine for three years for carrying out the professional activity for the TV channel, that is included in our sanctions list," said Gitlyanskaya. …

  • Kremlin: Macron interrupted conversation between Putin and Zelensky at Normandy Four Summit

    Putin's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on the TV program “The Great Game” on Channel One Russia that during the Normandy Four Summit, French President Emmanuel Macron interrupted a personal conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

    According to Peskov, Putin and Zelensky talked together for 10-15 minutes, which is "not so short." "Then they were interrupted by President Macron, who insisted on continuing the work at the Normandy Four …

  • Ukrainian President Zelensky to Russia-1 TV channel: we want to end war in Donbas

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a comment to the Russian State Russia-1 TV channel that Ukraine has "slightly different views" on the Minsk agreements than Russia. Still, the work in the Normandy Four is aimed at ending the war in the Donbas.

    He noted that the Normandy Four meetings provide an opportunity "to achieve a result and to end the war in Ukraine."

    "I believe that by holding a meeting of such format, we have the opportunity to achieve results and to end the war in …

  • Ukrainian Interior Minister: Putin’s aide Surkov lost temper during Normandy Format talks in Paris

    After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Russian President Vladimir Putin "to just withdraw their troops from the occupied Donbass”, the adviser to the Russian President Vladislav Surkov began to shout and hurl papers, said Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov on the TV the program "Freedom of Speech by Savik Shuster."

    "There was a very clear moment. Putin says, "Let's withdraw troops along the entire line of demarcation." Volodymyr Zelensky says: "Well, one moment. I believe we …