Kyiv

Volodymyr Zelensky handed over a list of armaments and ammunition needed by the Ukrainian army during his visit to Bulgaria yesterday. This was stated by the Minister of Defense Todor Tagarev before an extraordinary meeting of the Defense Committee early this morning in the Parliament.

There are more and more reports from the field about the kilometer-long line of vehicles of the Russian military forces that are going to Kyiv.
Yesterday ended with the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the United States, and in the meantime, fierce fighting continued in several Ukrainian cities.

A $3 billion dispute between two adversarial governments will come to a head in an English court on Jan. 17 when Russia and Ukraine meet for a first hearing in their legal battle over a politically charged eurobond.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he had invited his Russian, Ukrainian and French counterparts to talks in Berlin on May 11 intended to smooth differences between Moscow and Kyiv, after relations have been tense since Russia's 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Kyiv and its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.

The EU urged Ukraine on April 1 to accept Russia's offer to extend the current gas deal with Kyiv by another three months, saying it bodes well for an agreement for next winter.