Month: January 2024

Після звіту про недоліки у відстеженні наданої Україні зброї Пентагон заявив про відсутність доказів зловживань

«Немає достовірних доказів незаконного розповсюдження передового озброєння, яке США надають Україні», – сказав речник Міноборони США Пет Райдер …

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Гринкевич поки що не має статусу підозрюваного у справі про постачання товарів для ЗСУ – ДБР

«Статус підозрюваного Гринкевич має у кримінальному провадженні щодо спроби дати хабар. У кримінальному провадженні, яке розслідується і стосується постачання одягу для ЗСУ, наразі статус ще визначається» …

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Hundreds Honor Ukrainian Poet-Soldier Killed in Action

KYIV, Ukraine — Hundreds of people attended a ceremony Thursday honoring the memory of renowned Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov, who was killed in action while serving as a soldier in the war Russia started in Ukraine nearly two years ago. A large crowd gathered in the courtyard of Kyiv’s St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, where ceremonies are often held to honor soldiers killed in the war. People brought flowers adorned with blue and yellow ribbons — the colors of the Ukrainian flag — and patiently queued up to enter the monastery and pay their respects. A funeral was scheduled to be held …

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Dozens of Leaders to Gather in Davos for Annual World Economic Forum

London — More than 60 world leaders will join hundreds of business executives and campaigners at the Swiss ski resort of Davos Monday for the five-day annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, where they will discuss some of the biggest global challenges.   Critics say the summit is a meeting of the super-rich and that it fails to tackle growing global inequality.  The issues on the Davos agenda appear daunting: in the immediate term, worsening conflicts in many parts of the world along with Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea; and wider threats including potentially catastrophic climate change, …

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Poland’s President Announces Plan to Pardon 2 Convicted Politicians

WARSAW, POLAND — Polish President Andrzej Duda announced Thursday that he plans to once again pardon two senior politicians who were arrested in his presidential palace earlier this week, in a case that is at the center of a standoff between Poland’s new government and its conservative predecessor.  The development comes before a planned protest in Warsaw organized by the now opposition party Law and Justice, which held power for eight years until last month and is closely aligned with Duda.  Law and Justice, frustrated over its recent loss of power, urged its supporters to protest moves by the new pro-European …

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Belarus Sends Children From Occupied Parts of Ukraine for Training With Belarusian Army

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus state television reported Wednesday that authorities sent a recently arrived group of Ukrainian children from occupied Ukraine to train with the Belarusian military to learn how to evacuate in the event of a fire. Ukraine and the Belarusian opposition allege that Russian ally Belarus is engaging in the illegal transfer of Ukrainian children to Belarus on a mass scale, which critics say is a campaign to indoctrinate the children as pro-Russian. Wednesday’s report referred to 35 children from the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Antratsyt in eastern Ukraine that Belarusian authorities said were sent to the eastern Belarusian …

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Russia-North Korea Military Cooperation Under UN Spotlight

United Nations — Russia’s military cooperation with North Korea to further its war in Ukraine is drawing international condemnation, including at the U.N. Security Council, where Russia is a permanent member. U.N. Security Council members Britain, France, Japan, Malta, South Korea, Slovenia, and the United States, plus Ukraine, on Wednesday condemned three waves of deadly airstrikes by Russia on December 30, January 2 and 6. “These heinous attacks were conducted, in part, using ballistic missiles and ballistic missile launchers procured from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea [DPRK],” the group said in a statement. Last week, U.S. National Security Council spokesman …

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