Nearly half of Americans think the U.S. is spending too much on aid to Ukraine, according to a new poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on Nov. 22. The percentage of Americans in opposition to aid for Ukraine i…
North Macedonia completed the training of the first group of Ukrainian soldiers, a process kept confidential until now for security reasons, Balkan Insight reported on Nov. 22, citing the country’s Defense Minister Slavjanka Petrovska.The Balkan countr…
North Macedonia has become the second Balkan country after Romania that successfully completed a training programme of the first group of Ukrainian soldiers. The information about the training was kept secret up until now for security reasons.
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The decision to make Estonia the chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) for 2024 was blocked by a veto from Russia and Belarus, the Estonian Foreign Ministry said Nov. 21. The OSCE was formed in the 1970s as the Confer…
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia is no longer able to use the Black Sea as its own foothold, and Ukraine has managed to seize the initiative and force the Russians to try and hide their warships.
Source: Zelenskyy to the participants of t…
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against eight individuals and six entities for corruption and enabling Russian malign influence in the region, according to an OFAC press release on Nov. …
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s refence to ex-Security Service official Andrii Naumov being a “traitor” was taken into account when a Serbian court decided to refuse his extradition to Ukraine, the BBC’s Ukraine Service reported on Nov. 15, citing court…
Last week, the European Commission released an EU enlargement report that many considered historic. Brussels has acknowledged for the first time that Ukraine has “matured” enough to start accession negotiations, meaning that it sufficiently meets the …
Last week, the European Commission released an EU enlargement report that many considered historic. Brussels has acknowledged for the first time that Ukraine has “matured” enough to start accession negotiations.
It is important to understand that seve…
On 8 November in Brussels, the European Commission (EC, the EU’s executive body) adopted a long-anticipated but still interim decision regarding the start of accession negotiations with the EU.
Why is it referred to as an “interim” decision? Whe…