Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda on Sunday hailed Kyiv's "ambition" to seek peace in eastern Ukraine but also urged to maintain international pressure on Russia over ceasefire breaches ahead of a four-way summit in Paris.
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Belarusian representatives complained in Brussels last week that Lithuania is blocking the European Union and Minsk's agreement on partnership priorities.
Спецпредставитель США по вопросам Украины Курт Волкер заявил, что Россия за время агрессии в Украине ухудшила жизнь даже русскоязычных Донбасса, о которых якобы заботится.
Kurt Volker, the US special representative for Ukraine, says that he has hope that a fresh ceasefire between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces can be reached in eastern Ukraine for the back-to-school season.
In 1947, following his return to Washington after the negotiations with Stalin and Molotov in Moscow, George Marshall, the famous US military leader and post-war Secretary of State, saw the need to promote economic recovery in Western Europe destroyed by war. This was seen as a stabilising factor an...
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that Lithuania is providing all forms of assistance to Ukraine and will continue to support the country.
The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday passed a resolution calling on the European Union to continue its sanctions on Russia over the country's aggression in Ukraine.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Russia's allegations about a Ukrainian incursion into Crimea may be aimed at creating a pretext to back away from the Minsk agreement. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Vygaudas Ušackas, the EU's ambassador to Russia, says that Russia's allegations of a Ukrainian incursion into Crimea have not been confirmed by independent observers. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East is not a problem just for Europe to solve, says US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Benjamin G. Ziff.
Economic reform is central for today’s Ukraine. The capacity of the Ukrainian nation—leadership and population together—to deliver a modern and efficient economy, if achieved, would constitute the winning asset in the West’s current struggle with Russia in Eastern Europe.
President Poroshenko’s failure to move ahead with reforms or to resolve decisively the political crisis in Ukraine has dismayed his U.S. partners. That made for a difficult visit to Washington.
Russia’s absence from the nuclear summit in Washington, DC, last week was entirely predictable and yet baffling.
In the eyes of much of the West, Russia's image has changed from that of an aggressor to that of an important partner in the fight against terror, says Eastern Europe Studies Centre analyst Linas Kojala.
The current global situation is much more dangerous than it was during the Cold War because the rules that existed then are absent now, and Russia is attempting to force a directionless West to play according to its rules according a leading analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center.
United States President Barack Obama told Russian leader Vladimir Putin, with whom he spoke on the phone on Monday, that Moscow must respect the Minsk agreements of ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, the White House said.
