If passed, the bill could help alleviate bottlenecks the State Property Fund has repeatedly faced when trying to sell state-owned assets and help shore up funds for the state budget.
"It's painful when President Trump chooses one side, not our side," Zelensky said in an interview with British host Piers Morgan.
The SBU reported that the terminals were intended to support the planning of Russian military operations in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. Ukrainian security officers say they prevented the devices from being activated.
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Leaders of the EU's 27 member states have a Ukraine-packed agenda when they meet in Brussels Oct. 15-16, according to the latest draft conclusions of the upcoming meeting seen by the Kyiv Independent. The 25-page document contains six-and-a-half pages of comments specifically on Ukraine, three-and-a-half pages on defense and security, where Ukraine features prominently, and a page on the future of enlargement. Those hoping for a long list of decisions from the European Coun
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham also said he would strive to "repair bridges" between Ukraine and the U.S.
On the first day of the trial, prosecutors accused Serhii Kuznetsov of being an accomplice to war crimes by committing an attack against civilian infrastructure. Kuznetsov has denied any involvement.
On Sept. 25, a Moscow court sent the political analyst Alexander Kynev to pretrial detention for "large-scale illegal drug production, sale, and trafficking" — a charge that could land him in prison for 10–20 years. But no evidence of Kynev's involvement in illegal drugs has been made public. A leading expert on regional political processes and electoral systems, Kynev has long reported on election fraud in Russia, though he openly supports the New People party, which was launched in 2020 as a
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The U.K. has sanctioned Alexander Tattersall, a Dutch national, and Redwing Metal, the Turkish company he co-owns, nearly four months after a Kyiv Independent investigation revealed the firm had funneled EU-made industrial machinery to Russian metallurgical plants that supply the country's missile and fighter jet manufacturers. Tattersall and Redwing Metal were blacklisted as part of a package of 38 designations announced by the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) on Oct. 8
