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Ukraine, locked in the second year of war with Russia, is watching closely for any signs that military supplies from the West might be faltering and is trying to increase domestic output of its own military equipment and munitions. Smetanin described serial production of "kamikaze" drones with a combat range of 1,000 km that he said was under way in cooperation with international partners.

Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna was speaking in an interview with Reuters before the executive EU Commission publishes the report on Wednesday. Kyiv hopes it will recommend that EU leaders decide in December to open formal accession talks with Ukraine. "I would say that the assessment would definitely be positive because we have been in permanent contact with the European Commission, discussing the steps and negotiating the steps we managed to implement," Stefanishyna said.

(Reuters) - Ukraine expects a "positive" European Union appraisal of its progress on the path towards eventual EU membership in a report due this week, a senior government minister said on Monday, adding that Kyiv had carried out all the reforms required of it.

By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldova's national security service accused a fugitive oligarch on Friday of helping funnel 1 billion lei (50 ...

Ukraines President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is weighing the pros and cons of a spring 2024 presidential vote, his foreign minister said on Friday, though there are major concerns over how to organise... -November 03, 2023 at 11:02 am EDT - MarketScreener

Ukraine said yesterday that Russian warplanes had dropped “explosive objects” into the likely paths of civilian vessels in the Black Sea three times in the last 24 hours, but that its fledgling shipping corridor was still operating.

Ukrainian forces repelled a new Russian assault near the town of Vuhledar in eastern Donetsk region and continued its attempt to press forward in the south, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on... -November 02, 2023 at 07:26 am EDT - MarketScreener

Opera singers in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv hope to return to the stage more than 20 months into Russia's war by performing in the basement of their theatre to be safe from the threat of Russian air strikes. Ukraine's second city, which banned mass public events when Russia invaded in February 2022, is regularly targeted by missiles that can take as little as 45 seconds to land from the moment they are fired across the Russian border 30 km (20 miles) away. The Kharkiv...

By Vitalii Hnidyi KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Opera singers in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv hope to return to the stage more than 20 mo...

Ukraine said on Wednesday Russian warplanes had dropped explosive objects into the likely paths of civilian vessels in the Black Sea three times in the last 24 hours, but that its fledgling...