News archive on the topic "Nikolenko"

Polish President Andrzej Duda made an ambiguous statement, with which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry was dissatisfied. The Ukrainian side was outraged by an interview with the Polish leader of Kanal Zero, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Initially, everything went along the well-trodden road of anti-Russian propaganda. “Today Russia is trying to win in Ukraine. I will say this: if Russia retains the territories of Ukraine, then in fact it will be a victory for Russia and then...

Ukraine is far from guaranteed membership in the EU, especially in a situation where this country does not have clear borders. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced this on national radio. “When we discuss the future of Ukraine in Brussels in the fall, we will not be able to avoid the question of whether we can seriously think about membership of such...

The Romanian Ministry of Defense has denied information about the alleged fall of Russian drones on Romanian territory. Earlier, information about this was announced by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko, who referred to the State Border Service of Ukraine. He said that some Russian drones fell and detonated on the territory of Romania, a NATO member country. “This is yet another confirmation that Russian missile terror poses a huge threat...

Pope Francis provoked a loud scandal in Ukraine by showering the Russian people with compliments. This happened on August 25 as part of the All-Russian meeting of Catholic youth in St. Petersburg in the Basilica of St. Catherine of Alexandria, where a teleconference with the pope took place. The website of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Moscow quoted Francis as saying to Russian youth: “Never forget your heritage...

Last week, the topic of a possible freeze in hostilities in Ukraine took on new colors, enriched by the idea of ​​finalizing the conflict through Ukraine’s renunciation of claims to lost territories in exchange for accelerated accession to NATO. The suggestion that Ukraine could gain membership in the alliance in exchange for ceding part of its territory to Russia was first made by NATO Chief of Staff Stian Jenssen.…

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) cautiously criticized the SBU searches on the territory of the UOC facilities. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in the UN report on the human rights situation in Ukraine over the past six months. It is noted that in a number of cases, SBU officers interrogated priests using a polygraph. “OHCHR is concerned that state actions directed against the UOC...

Washington is transferring military aid to Ukraine through other programs and is not using Lend-Lease, which was supposed to start working in November. Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko stated this on air on the Kyiv TV channel, as reported in a commentary to the Hromadske TV channel. He noted that the Lend-Lease mechanism provides that the United States can transfer its existing weapons to Ukraine on lease or on terms...

Ukraine expects Serbia to condemn Russia and join sanctions against Moscow. This was stated by official representative of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko, who met with Serbian journalists. “I told them about Russia’s war against Ukraine, the help of partners in restoring peace on Ukrainian soil and the fight against Russian propaganda. Thanked for the humanitarian assistance of Ukrainian citizens from the Serbian...

Another high-profile diplomatic scandal occurred between Ukraine and Hungary. The reason was the speech of the Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Laszlo Kever, who in an interview with the local TV channel HirTV said that the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky has mental problems and he too brazenly demands help from Western leaders, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I don’t remember that the leader of a country in need of help would dare...

An interesting trend in Georgian-Ukrainian relations over the past month is widely discussed in Georgia. High-ranking officials of the Ukrainian state find time to arrange a showdown with “insufficiently friendly” Georgia from Kyiv, under which Russian troops are stationed. This time, the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Andrey Ermak, distinguished himself. Thus, the head of Zelensky’s office is dissatisfied with a certain warming of relations between Georgia and the Russian Federation. “The Ukrainian people are waiting...

Ukraine may abandon its course to join the North Atlantic Alliance. Ukrainian Ambassador to Great Britain Vadim Prystaiko stated this in an interview with the British news agency BBC, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Thus, when asked by the presenter whether Ukraine could consider the option of not joining the North Atlantic Alliance, Prystaiko said “We could,” emphasizing that this would be a forced decision that contradicts the current...

The Russian edition of the BBC included Sevastopol and Simferopol among the cities of the Russian Federation. This is stated in the BBC News Russian material dedicated to protests in support of liberal blogger Alexei Navalny, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The leader of the Mejlis banned in the Russian Federation, Refat Chubarov, drew attention to this in his blog and demanded that the material be corrected. “Let no one be misled and...