Lithuania is to donate 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines to Ukraine / Lithuania will donate 200,000 COVID-19 vaccine shots to its eastern European neighbours, including 100,000 to Ukraine, the government said on Friday.
Blinken's visit to Kyiv: what did he say about new military assistance to Ukraine / U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was in Kyiv on an official visit on May 6, said that the U.S.
The European Union has announced the launch date of "Сovid passports" / The European Union will introduce vaccination passports in June 2021, while in Italy national COVID passports will come into force as early as mid-May, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said, according to La Reppublica.
The construction of Nord Stream 2 pipeline has been blocked / In Germany, one of the largest environmental organizations for the Conservation of Nature and Biodiversity (NABU) has joined the conservation organization Deutsche Umwelthilfe and challenged in court the issuance of a permit for the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline by the German Federal Office for Shipping, as was reported by the NABU website.
Chemical weapons, disinformation and cyber attacks: Russia was mentioned in the American worldwide threat assessment / The U.S. Department of Defense Intelligence Agency published an assessment of the global security environment of 2021, in which the Russian Federation was mentioned several times.
Russia has announced the expulsion of diplomats from Slovakia and three Baltic countries / Russia is expelling three employees of the Slovak Embassy, two employees of the Lithuanian Embassy and one from Latvian and another from Estonian embassies in Moscow in response to their governments’ own expulsions of Russian envoys in solidarity with the Czech Republic.
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter entered the Black Sea / On Tuesday, April 27, 2021, the Legend-class national security cutter USCGC Hamilton (WMSL 753) transited into the Black Sea in support of NATO Allies and partners, U.S.
Putin responded to Zelensky's invitation to meet in the Donbas / Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to the proposal of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to meet on the front line in the Donbas.
The EU made an unexpected statement regarding the economic sanctions against Russia / European High-representative / Vice-President Josep Borrel said that the European Union is not preparing new sanctions against Russia.
Russian Navy began interspecific command post exercise in the Arctic / In the Northern Fleet (NF), an interspecific command post-exercise has begun, which is being held under the general leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, Russian Ministry of Defence reports.
