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On Sunday, President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola has congratulated Ukrainian servicepersons on the Day of Defenders of Ukraine. According to Ukrinform, Metsola posted her greetings on the social network X. Today we honour the brave defenders of Ukraine, those on the frontline & the fallen soldiers.On Ukraine's Defender Day, we salute the courage, defiance & resilience of those not only fighting to protect their homeland, but also standing up for our values.#SlavaUkraini 🇪🇺🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/QhOlLpwDtM — Roberta Metsola (@EP_President) October 1, 2023 “On Ukraine's Defender Day, we salute the courage, defiance & resilience of those not only fighting to…

The U.S. President called the adoption of bill to prevent a federal government shutdown good news and at the same time emphasized the need to provide adequate assistance to Ukraine. “Tonight, bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate voted to keep the government open, preventing an unnecessary crisis that would have inflicted needless pain on millions of hardworking Americans,” reads the statement from U.S. President Joe Biden on passage of the bipartisan bill to keep the U.S. Government open passed on September 30. As Biden noted, this bill ensures that active-duty troops will continue to get paid, travelers will be…

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has arrived in Odesa on an unannounced visit today. The relevant statement was made by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell on the social media platform X, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “Odesa is a beautiful historic city. It should be in the headlines for its vibrant culture and spirit. Instead, it marks the news as frequent target of Putin’s war. The EU supports the stabilisation of sites impacted by Russia’s barbarically destruction,” Borrell wrote. He mentioned that a year had passed since Russia’s illegal…

NATO may decide to join the war in defense of Ukraine even before the country joins the military alliance. Dainius Zalimas, the head of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania in 2014-2021 who currently serves as the dean of the Faculty of Law at Vytautas Magnus University and is a member of the Venice Commission, said this in an interview with Ukrinform. "Even when the war drags on, I would not rule out that NATO will have to get involved in the war directly. And for this, Ukraine does not necessarily have to be a member of the alliance. Under the…

Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, says he does not support the idea of drafting separate strategies for the deoccupation of Crimea and eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, believing there should be a single strategy for all temporarily occupied areas. Danilov touched on the topic in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Natalia Moseychuk, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. "I’m not a supporter of drafting a separate strategy for the de-occupation of Donetsk region, Luhansk region, and Crimea. There should be a general strategy (for all temporarily occupied territories — ed.),” Danilov believes. Read also: Danilov: Hitting…

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith says the Alliance will increase the production of ammunition both for Ukraine and for NATO member states that have donated a significant share of their weaponry to Ukraine. This is reported by Ukrinform with reference to Voice of America’s Ukrainian service. "We've seen cases where NATO allies have provided the Ukrainians with everything they can, bilaterally, which has created some shortages in their own stocks. So NATO has started what we call the Defense Production Action Plan, focusing on munitions shortages, both for Ukrainians and for some NATO members who provided aid to Ukraine,…

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Saudi Arabia is ready to continue mediating efforts to achieve a peaceful settlement in Ukraine. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, said this in his speech at the general debate of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, according to Ukrinform. "Regarding the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, the Kingdom once again calls for an end to this crisis, limiting its negative consequences for security and stability throughout the world. The Kingdom emphasizes the need to make all possible efforts to end this crisis and resolve disputes peacefully, respecting the principles…

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is now one of Ukraine's lobbyists in NATO. "During the visit to the USA together with President Volodymyr Zelensky, we met with the famous diplomat, scientist and politician Henry Kissinger. I was very happy to see him, we had a really profound conversation," Head of the President's Office Andriy Yermak posted on Telegram. According to him, Kissinger has many apt quotes that characterize the current state of affairs in the war with Russia. "Before this war I was opposed to the membership of Ukraine in NATO because I feared it would start exactly…

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria, Alexander Schallenberg, is in favor of keeping open the channels of dialogue with Russia, despite the latter’s attempt to take over another state “in a neo-imperialist way”. Shallenberg stated this in an interview with the APA agency at the end of his visit to the the general debate of the UN General Assembly in New York. "Of course we should. We also have relevant platforms, either in the UN or, for example, in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Such organizations have never been clubs of like-minded people. This dialogue has…