Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the West was on the path to a “joint victory” over Russia, while hailing the military aid that made possible the recapture of Kherson, the BTA reported.
"Ukraine’s defense forces regained control of more than 60 settlements in the Kherson region", Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address. Russian forces have destroyed the critical infrastructure before fleeing. Meanwhile, tough opposition was being encountered in Donetsk. “There it is just hell- there are extremely fierce battles there every day”, Zelensky said. Ukrainian forces destroyed a local hotel during shelling, the mayor of the town of Gorlovka, Ivan Prikhodko, reported on Telegram.
Finland has earmarked an additional EUR 2.9 billion for defence since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Its defence budget in 2023 has increased with 20% to EUR 6.1 billion, DW reports. The country is planning to build a fence along the vast majority of its border with Russia.
The civil society organization Transparency International – Georgia released a study revealing that in comparison with previous years Georgia’s economic dependency on Russia has “significantly increased”. In March-September 2022, about 9,500 Russian companies were registered in Georgia, which is 10 times more than in all of 2021. According to the organization, 97% of these companies are individual enterprises, which indicates that quite a few Russians plan to settle in Georgia for a long time.
After 17 MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF, were expelled, among them the party’s other co-chair Dzevdet Chakarov, MRF MP Ahmed Vranchev expressed, in written form, a desire to leave the Movement’s parliamentary group. DPS..
Several European liberal parties have sent a letter to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) to demand that Delyan Peevski be monitored, pointing out that he has been sanctioned for corruption by the US under the Global Magnitsky..
Greece’s Minister of Defence Nikos Dendias announced that Greece, Bulgaria and Romania are to establish a military mobility corridor in NATO’s Eastern flank. “Today my Bulgarian and Romanian counterparts, Mr. Atanas Zaprianov and Mr. Angel..
The European Commission has approved state aid amounting to EUR 142 million (BGN 278 million) to support the energy sector, BNR’s correspondent in..
Saturday will be sunny and hot. Clouds will form in the afternoon, and there may be brief showers in isolated places in the Eastern part of the..
“No towns or villages are at risk from the fires that have broken out around the country,” Chief Commissioner Alexander Dzhartov, Director of the..
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