Wanted to get to Europe: Bodies of some 27 refugees were found in Libya / In western Libya, where a coup d'état took place on the eve of the presidential election, the bodies of 27 migrants including those of a baby and two women, were found late on Saturday in two separate locations in a coastal town.
NATO Secretary General and President Zelensky discuss Russia’s military build-up / NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to NATO Headquarters to discuss Russia’s military build-up in and around Ukraine.
Ukraine accuses Germany of ‘blocking’ NATO weapons supply / Ukraine’s new defense minister has blamed Germany for blocking the supply of weaponry to Kyiv through NATO, despite US warnings of a possible imminent invasion by Russian forces.
US intelligence convinces allies of Russian threat to Ukraine / Weeks of sustained U.S. diplomatic engagement with European governments, backed by intelligence sharing normally reserved for its closest allies, have helped convince some previously skeptical capitals, including Berlin, that the Kremlin may soon send its troops in Ukraine.
China seeks court arbitration, demands Ukraine pay $4.5b compensation / Beijing-based investment company Skyrizon announced on Sunday that it submitted an application for arbitration to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, requesting a ruling that Ukraine violated the bilateral agreement on the encouragement and mutual protection of investments and demanding $4.5 billion in compensation for alleged unfair treatment of Chinese investors by Ukraine, the company said in a statement according to “Global Times”.
Ukraine and the IMF signed a Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies / The Government of Ukraine has committed to implementing 12 major “structural benchmarks” to receive IMF funding within the current Stand-By-Arrangement, which the Fund extended until June 2022.
Estonia has installed a fence along the border with Russia / Estonia, which began the construction of temporary fences along the country’s eastern border on November 20, completed it in three days.
Ukraine will take part in the summit for democracy: which countries were not invited by the United States / On December 9-10, 2021, President Biden will host a virtual summit for leaders from government, civil society, and the private sector.
In Iran, the hearings over shooting down of Ukrainian airliner have begun / On Sunday, November 21, the Iranian military court began a hearing over the military’s shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane in 2020 that killed 176 people, According to AP NEWS reports.
The threat of a new invasion: France and Germany made a statement on Russia / Following the meeting with the Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba in Brussels, the Foreign Ministers of Germany and France made a joint statement on support for Ukraine.
