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21 December 2021
The United States and Britain have deployed cyberwarfare experts in Ukraine amid the latest concerns that Russia could attack Ukrainian power grids this winter.
In the Netherlands, during a court hearing in the MH17 downing case, prosecutors said that four defendants, the so-called former “DPR” defense minister Igor Girkin (Strelkov), head of the “DPR” GRU general (colonel at the time of the tragedy) of the Russian GRU Sergey Dubinskiy, GRU lieutenant colonel Oleg Pulatov (all Russian citizens), and Leonid Kharchenko, a citizen of Ukraine who fought for the “DPR”, were responsible for the deaths of 298 people on board the plane.
The U.S. Department of State continues to advise U.S. citizens not to visit Ukraine due to the situation with the spread of COVID-19 and a growing military threat from Russia.
The United States believes that Ukraine's right to determine its prospects for NATO membership, as well as the Allies' decision to accept new countries to join, is in line with European security.
The presidents of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania have expressed their deep concern over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project and expressed their readiness to take joint action to counter Russia's monopolization of the European gas market.
20 December 2021
The presidents of Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania called on the international community to strengthen sanctions against the Russian Federation and urged Russia to withdraw its troops from Ukraine’s borders.
The United States will provide more military equipment and weapons to Ukraine if Russia decides to continue its aggression.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that the world should take preventive measures and impose sanctions against Russia, rather than react after it escalates the situation.
Ukraine's Acting Prosecutor General Oleksiy Symonenko has signed a suspicion notice for Ukraine's fifth president, Petro Poroshenko, in the case of supplying coal from occupied territories, a law enforcement official familiar with the matter has told Ukrinform.
President Volodymyr Zelensky called the meeting of the Lublin Triangle leaders and the forthcoming conference of ambassadors in the village of Huta in Ivano-Frankivsk region the beginning of the geographical decentralization of Ukrainian diplomacy.
Ukraine stands in solidarity with Poland and Lithuania in their assessment of the migration crisis on the EU's border with Belarus and is strengthening its own frontiers to avoid a similar scenario, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
Presidents of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, President of the Republic of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda, and President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda signed a joint declaration in support of Ukraine's membership in the European Union and NATO.
Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin believes that a possible escalation of the situation between Russia and Ukraine could lead to the imposition of much tougher U.S. EU sanctions on Moscow.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Polish President Andrzej Duda and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda have met to discuss security issues and agree on further steps to counter common challenges.
The security situation resulting from a build-up of Russian troops around Ukraine's borders has become a major issue for world politics, but words and statements are not enough to deter Russian aggression.
Ukraine considers IT tools to be the basis for effective fight against corruption and is ready to share with the international community its experience in implementing them.
Tensions on the borders of Ukraine, the situation on the Belarusian border, and the energy crisis must be considered in combination. Such actions reflect the Kremlin's will to change the framework conditions for European security excluding the Europeans from such discussions, but the EU remains confident that the United States will not fall into the trap of Russia's "security proposals."
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, and Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov visited one of the local arms producers.
Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, believes that Europe needs to be ready to take decisive action against Russia in case of an attack on Ukraine, Ukrinform reports with reference to Borrell’s blog.
The leaders of Poland and Lithuania, Andrzej Duda and Gitanas Nausėda during the Lublin Triangle Summit (Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania) in Guta, Ivano-Frankivsk region, on Monday, December 20, are set to express solidarity with Kyiv in the wake of Russia's aggressive actions.
18 December 2021
The U.S. Department of State says that talks on the situation around Ukraine held during the meetings of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried during her visits to Ukraine, Russia and Brussels were "productive".
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg rejects Russia's right to demand that NATO should deny membership to Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson discussed energy security issues and coordinated steps to de-escalate the situation around Ukraine.
The United States is constantly following Ukraine's defense needs, and such assistance is constantly coming to Ukraine.
North Atlantic Council, the principal political decision-making body within NATO, calls on Russia to immediately de-escalate and abide by its international commitments on transparency of military activities.
At a meeting with the G7 and the EU ambassadors, President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked for support and assistance provided to Ukraine.
17 December 2021
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has congratulated Petr Fiala on his appointment as prime minister of the Czech Republic.
The Office of the President’s Representation for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol has intensified its work on deoccupation and reintegration of the peninsula, due to the fact that in August this year it took up functions of the Crimea Platform’s National Office.
On December 17, Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office, Tobias Lindner will make a visit to Ukraine to hold talks on security policy.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba outlined ten major victories of the Ministry in 2021.