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MOSCOW, June 13 (Sputnik) - The leaders of the G7 nations issued a wide-ranging communique as they wrapped up a three-day summit, held in Cornwall in the UK.

Biden’s First International Test: Can He Save Ukraine From Putin? Emil Filtenborg, Stefan Weichert © Provided by The Daily Beast Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty ZOLOTE, Ukraine—This could be the most important week for Ukraine since Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Crimea in 2014. We will finally discover how serious President Joe Biden is about defending the Ukrainians from Russian aggression. Biden called to reassure Ukraine’s president that he would...

EU-Russia ties are frostier than ever. In this excerpt from the Watch List 2021 – Spring Update, Crisis Group urges the EU and its member states to forge consensus with the U.S. and UK on responses to any threats, or evidence, of Russian attacks on Ukraine, and to work with the U.S. on breaking the impasse in talks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the security guarantees provided by the European Union and the US could become an alternative to Ukraines joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Presidents press service ...

The format allows Germany and France to provide assistance to Ukraine, which is important, German Chancellor added

Berlin and Paris emphasize the importance of implementing the Minsk Agreements

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke over the phone on Thursday.

Introduction European leaders hoping that a new U.S. administration and COVID vaccines would bring some respite to tempestuous global affairs might look back disappointed at the past few months. A lot has happened since Crisis Group put out our last EU Watch List in January. Despite some bright spots, little of it has been good. First was the Myanmar coup; an entry in this update covers where things stand. The military takeover upended the country’s short experiment with pluralism and...

Posted on May 8, 2021. Sergei Strokan discusses why Washington has not met Kyiv’s expectations. The process of canceling the Minsk peace agreements to stop the war in the Donbass region in Ukraine is now on hold. By announcing this news, Washington, D.C. is dotting the i’s in the protracted debate over the quality and future of these agreements — whether the countries need them, whether the agreements are good or bad, effective or stillborn. The U.S. Department of State has asserted that ...

They said this at a joint briefing in Kyiv, Ukrainian News Agency reports. According to the report, the Benelux countries believe in the necessity of a dialogue and implementation of the Minsk agreements to settle the situation. In turn, Foreign Affairs Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, noted insufficient efficiency of the Normandy Format (with the participation of Ukraine, Germany, Russia and France). Therefore, he called on Ukraine’s partners to help France and Germany to put pressure on Russia to m...