"We agreed to pursue ambitious measures to reduce Russia's ability to wage war by limiting Kremlin revenues, disrupting the shadow fleet, tightening the Oil Price Cap, and reducing our remaining imports of Russian energy."
Zelensky on May 12 removed Lieutenant General Ivan Havryliuk from the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the top command and control body for all branches of Ukraine's defense apparatus.
Ukraine remains the most mined country in the world. Nearly one-third of Ukraine's territory, approximately 174,000 square kilometers, had been mined since Russia began its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022.
The phone call comes as Moscow once again rejected a 30-day ceasefire, with Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova claiming that a ceasefire would give "Kyiv a break to restore its military potential and continue its confrontation with Russia."
Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport en-route to Kuala Lumpur International Airport on July 17, 2014. Three hours into the flight, the Boeing-777 was shot down by Russian proxy forces using a Buk surface-to-air missile above Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
"I am grateful for the support and the readiness at the highest level to promote diplomacy," President Volodymyr Zelensky said of the phone conservation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "We share the same view on the need for a ceasefire."
The convictions mark a significant development in Britain's efforts to counter Russian intelligence operations amid heightened tensions stemming from Moscow's war against Ukraine and repeated Kremlin threats toward Kyiv's allies.
According to the Verkhovna Rada's website, Ukraine completed the ratification of the U.S.-Ukraine minerals agreement on May 12. President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the deal.
U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy's car outside the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, April 2023. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)
The Russian Foreign Ministry added another 227 U.S. citizens to its list of those banned from entering Russia, state news agency TASS reported on March 14.
Russia's list of banned persons has been growing in recent days, with another 367 people from the Baltic states added to the list on March 12, including Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina.
The Russian Foreign Ministry claimed the Americans were included in the list due to their involvement in "fostering and implementing the Russophobic policy" and spreading "outright slander about Russia's foreign and domestic politics."
According to TASS, those on the list now include U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia John J. Sullivan, and former Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.
Other figures reportedly on the list are two business leaders in the global arms company Lockheed Martin, namely Shamala Littlefield, the president of the subsidiary Lockheed Martin Global Inc., as well as Raymond Piselli, the vice president of international business at Lockheed Martin.
The list also includes Lieutenant General Andrew Rohling, the deputy chair of the NATO Military Committee and deputy commanding general for the U.S. Army in Europe and Africa.
Journalists Joseph Marks, Joseph Menn, Ellen Nakashima, and Tim Starks are included for their reporting for the Washington Post, as well as New York Times journalist Robert Worth and Voice of America journalist Jeff Seldin.
TASS claimed that over 2,000 U.S. citizens are included on Russia's entry ban list.
Alessandra Hay
