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Tsikhanouskaya to soon visit Ukraine, Kyiv says after snubbing Lukashenko
The news comes after Kyiv dismissed a proposal by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky amid surging tensions between Kyiv and the Belarusian regime.
Ukraine's foreign minister meets with new Hungarian counterpart to discuss minority rights
The ministers agreed to hold a second round of consultations regarding Ukraine's Hungarian minority next week.
Russia claims Ukrainian drone strike killed 4, wounded 35 in occupied Luhansk Oblast
The Ukrainian military has not commented on the Russian claims on the strike as of the publication time.
Russia offers university admission boost for students who pass drone piloting exam
The initiative comes as Russia expands a broader recruitment campaign targeting students for its newly created drone units amid mounting battlefield losses in Ukraine.
Putin faces rising tensions as Russian economy weakens
The Russian economy is losing momentum as the cost of the war mounts — sowing discord at the highest levels of the state and posing growing problems for President Vladimir Putin. After four years of proudly insisting that Russia could withstand sanctions imposed by the West in response to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin is now confronting the reality that the war economy that initially spurred growth is increasingly straining the system. Meanwhile, there is a growing sense that
Remains of 20th century Ukrainian military leader Andrii Melnyk brought to Kyiv for reburial
"Today, Ukraine is bringing home not only an outstanding figure — we are restoring a part of our own historical memory," the statement from the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ reads.
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Kyiv will have to improve its revenue collection and how efficiently it spends money, the European Commission said in a press release on May 20, if it wants to access more than $8 billion of the loan.
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