“It is true I’ve only been here four times in two years. But I think we may have logged close to 1,000 hours on the telephone. I think I tend to be more in direct conversation for longer periods of time with the president than with my wife. I think they both regret that. But it is important,” Biden said at a joint briefing in Kyiv on Monday.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has told Ukraine’s parliament that Western pressure on Russia will increase if Moscow continues its “aggression” against Kyiv.
“Ukraine needs redical changes in the wake of the 2014 revolution. Either the government makes them or the people of Ukraine will take care of this. There is no third option, no matter how those who have shared the spheres of influence hope,” Odesa Governor and ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili said in Kyiv in the course of the international conference on Ukraine government track record in fighting corruption over the past 2 years Nov. 18.
Dynamo Kyiv will secure their passage into the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time in 16 years with a victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that Washington remained determined to see Russia adhere to a shaky Ukrainian peace agreement and hand back Crimea to Kyiv.
Ukraine’s tangled relations with Russia are about to be tested as the deadline to pay back a $3 billion bond to President Vladimir Putin nears.
MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. Authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic have said they doubt that Kyiv will hand over the lists for the all for all prisoner exchange at the Contact Group’s meeting in Minsk, Belarus, on Tuesday.
MINSK, December 8. /TASS/. Contact Group for settling the armed civil conflict in eastern Ukraine is to hold a yet another meeting in Minsk on Tuesday, to consider a heightening of armed tensions in the zone of conflict that has occurred there over the three weeks since the previous meeting.
