The European Commission (EC) will not allocate the last EUR 600 million tranche for Ukraine under the current Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) programme worth EUR 1.8 billion approved in 2015, but it is ready to consider the issue of further MFA provided reform momentum is stepped up.
Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommends that its citizens cross the border of Belarus with the Russian Federation by plane only.
The Ukrainian foreign ministry expects from the newly-appointed leaders of OSCE institutions to provide a duly response to Russia’s crimes in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine and in the illegally-annexed Crimea, according to a comment released on the ministry’s website Tuesday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ukraine has expressed its strong protest over another visit of the Russian delegation led by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Ukraine's territory temporarily occupied by Russia, namely the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Ukrainian foreign ministry wrote in a comment.
Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Serhiy Kyslytsya says that Russia ignores the appeal of the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) says that a recent incident when an OSCE monitors' armored car was blown up in occupied Donbas is a confirmation of the Kremlin's attempts to intimidate the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine.