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PM Ana Brnabic and Ukrainian Ambassador Oleksandr Aleksandrovych on Friday "confirmed the readiness of the two countries to improve bilateral cooperation."

According to a government statement cited by Tanjug, they also assessed that there were "great opportunities to strengthening economic ties between Serbia and Ukraine, especially when it comes to cooperation between SMEs."

US President Donald Trump attended a meeting of the Three Seas Initiative - led by Poland and Croatia - in Warsaw on Thursday, showing American support for a scheme that is mainly designed to limit Russia's economic and political influence in Central and Eastern Europe.

President Emmanuel Macron said Monday France refuses to recognise Russia's "annexation" of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, AFP reported.
Speaking after talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Paris, Macron said: "France is committed to Ukraine's sovereignty with its recognised borders."/FOCUS News Agency/

A plane carrying Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was buzzed by a NATO F-16 fighter jet as it flew over the Baltic Sea, but was seen off by a Russian Sukhoi-27 military jet, Russian news agencies reported on June 21.

The F-16 had tried to approach the aircraft carrying the  defense minister even though it was flying over neutral waters, agencies said. 

BREST, Belarus - Slavic Brotherhood 2017, anti-terror drills involving Serbian, Russian and Belarusian forces, began at the Brestsky military training range in Belarus on Tuesday.

Belarusian Special Operations Commander Maj-Gen Vadim Denisenko congratulated the representatives of the three armed forces at an opening ceremony, Tass reported.

Tanjug file photo, S. Radovanovic

Turkey has become the largest tourism destination for Ukrainian tourists as almost 75 percent of 1.5 million Ukrainian tourists that travel overseas visit Turkey, according to a leading Turkish tourism association. 

Turkish flour mills have covered their short-term needs by purchasing several hundred thousand tons of wheat from EU and Black Sea countries, replacing Russian supplies blocked by a change to import rules, millers and traders said on April 5.

The topic of Russia's interference in the elections of European countries is absurd, stated to TASS the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Meshkov.

Meshkov commented on the presumed participation of Moscow in the election process of several EU member-states as follows:

The European Union has announced that it will allocate EUR 18 M in humanitarian aid for the population that suffered from the war in the eastern regions of Ukraine.

At least half of the funds will be used to help residents in the territories outside the control of the Ukrainian government.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Feb. 10 announced that Turkey and Ukraine had reached a deal allowing the citizens of the both countries to travel between each only with ID cards, without passports.