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08 November 2021
Representatives of the EU, NATO and the United States have called on all political parties in the Verkhovna Rada to immediately adopt a bill on reforming Ukraine's SBU State Security Service, which will be an important step on Ukraine's path towards the EU and NATO.
The adoption of the draft law on the reform of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and a fully aligned satellite law will strengthen Ukraine's ability to protect itself from hybrid warfare and other threats to national security.
First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Korniyenko has decided to resign as head of the Servant of the People political party
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has advised Ukrainian citizens to temporarily refrain from traveling to Ethiopia due to the escalation of the security situation and the imposition of a state of emergency in that country, according to recommendations provided by the ministry.
Prospects are dim for further work of the Normandy Four platform of talks on Donbas settlement, involving Ukraine, France, Germany, and Russia.
Ukraine strongly condemns the November 7 assassination attempt on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said in a statement.
06 November 2021
CIA Director Bill Burns was dispatched to Moscow earlier this week to warn the Kremlin that the U.S. is watching its buildup of troops near Ukraine's border closely, CNN has reported, referring to multiple U.S. and Ukrainian sources.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed the law "On the prevention of threats to national security associated with the excessive influence of persons who have significant economic or political weight in public life (oligarchs)."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejcinovic Buric to discuss the protection of human rights in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and eastern Ukraine, the President's Office has reported.
Ukraine will not become a member of NATO in the near future, but Ukraine must prepare for this membership today, Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has said.
05 November 2021
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said he is convinced that Hungary will return to "loud" support for Ukraine's membership in NATO after controversial issues in bilateral relations are resolved.
In case Ukraine is taken off the European Union’s list of safe countries in terms of the COVID-19 spread, this will not imply a total closure of EU borders to Ukrainians.
It is time for Europe to draw up a clear roadmap for Ukraine's accession to the European Union and NATO, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted the Law “On Ratification of the Agreement between Ukraine and the Arab Republic of Egypt on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons” (No.0126).
An investigator with the State Bureau of Investigation has issued a criminal suspicion notice to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych accusing him of leading an organized criminal group.
The second "Re: Open Zakarpattia" Forum has started in Ukraine’s far-western Zakarpattia region, where for two days the speakers will discuss local, regional, national, and Central European contexts, as well as the ways to turn the region into Ukraine’s gateway to Europe.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s proposals for holding a meeting of Normandy Four’s top diplomats leave no doubt that the head of Russian diplomacy, in fact, continues to avoid such a meeting.
The U.S. Department of State has officially announced the date for a meeting of the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Commission, which will take place on November 10 and will be chaired by Foreign Ministers Antony Blinken and Dmytro Kuleba.
The newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk said she would focus on the humanitarian aspect in the policy of reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories.
The United States is aware of reports of unusual Russian military activity near the border with Ukraine and is closely monitoring the situation in the region, Elisabeth Rosenstock-Siller, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to the OSCE, has said.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried has said the U.S.-Ukraine strategic partnership is a cornerstone for security, democracy and human rights in the region.
04 November 2021
The Verkhovna Rada has appointed Yulia Svyrydenko as Ukraine's first deputy prime minister and economy minister.
The Verkhovna Rada has appointed Pavlo Riabikin as Ukraine's minister for strategic industries.
The Verkhovna Rada has appointed Iryna Vereshchuk as Ukraine's deputy prime minister and minister for the reintegration of temporarily occupied territories.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried is on a visit to Kyiv to meet with Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and representatives of the President's Office.
A full audit of the Ministry of Defense and changes in personnel policy will be the first step in office of the newly-appointed Minister of Defense, Oleksiy Reznikov.
The Verkhovna Rada has appointed Oleksiy Reznikov as Ukraine's defense minister.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will hold in Washington on November 10 a meeting of the Strategic Partnership Commission, where a new Strategic Partnership Charter is to be signed.
Ukrainian MPs honored activist Kateryna Handziuk at a plenary sitting of the Verkhovna Rada on Thursday, November 4.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasyl Bodnar has presented his credentials to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.