Foreign relations of Ukraine

The Russia-Ukraine war, which has been going on for 16 months already, has generated significant implications of the political scene of the Middle East, where the war has exposed the complexities of the calculations with which the states of the region are faced as a result of the escalation of international relations and the siding of the countries world-wide with one of the two groups - the gr

A Su-35 fighter jet of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter near Kupyansk with a missile, the spokesman for Russia's Battlegroup West, Sergey Zybinsky said.
"During combat in the Kupyansk area, a Mi-8 helicopter was downed in a missile attack by the Battlegroup West's operational/tactical aircraft," he reported.

It said senior Kremlin officials continue to hold high-level meetings with the Belarusian leadership.
By doing so, they could create the conditions for a major Russian attack on Ukraine from Belarus, but that, they add, is unlikely to happen in the coming weeks.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn said that he does not believe in the military victory of the West in Ukraine, adding that the sanctions are already beginning to fall into disrepair.

This was stated by the deputy head of the Russian delegation, Andrey Belousov, commenting on the Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which was signed in 1994. That agreement was signed by the United States of America, Russia, the United Kingdom and Ukraine in Budapest.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Russian forces are massing in southern Ukraine, expecting a counteroffensive. The war is entering a new phase

The Commerce Department said the targeted companies had supplied items to Russian “entities of concern” before the February 24 invasion

The head of the Russian Central Bank warned yesterday that the country's economy faces pressure from abroad that could persist indefinitely, dampening hopes that conditions could return to what they were before Russia sent troops into Ukraine.

As the Russia-Ukraine conflict entered its fourth month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 50 embassies have resumed operations in Kyiv, Ukraine, and termed it a testament to their faith in the country's victory.

The package of sanctions includes other tough measures, such as the removal from the swift of the largest Russian bank Sberbank