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KYIV (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Ukraine would not accept any bilateral agreement on its fate reached by Moscow and Washington without Kyiv's involvement, and called for Europe to have a seat at the table in negotiations to end the war.The Ukrainian leader made the comments at a nuclear plant on his way to the Munich Security Conference, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to Russian leader Vladimir Putin Zelenskiy and announced the start of negotiations."We, as an independent country, simply will not be able to accept any agreements without us," Zelenskiy told reporters.The Putin...

@ZelenskyyUa I held a meeting of the Staff. We thoroughly analyzed our work with Syria after the fall of Assad and his escape. Today, the intelligence services presented their reports—the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine—as well as the Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs. We are defining our strategy and concrete steps. Ukraine is interested in stabilizing the situation in Syria and the entire region and will support the necessary efforts of partners. We believe it is crucial for the security of the Syrian people and the region as a whole to remove any Russian presence...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance has announced that it received $2 billion from the US, allocated through the World Bank (WB) mechanism to support the Ukrainian state budget, Report informs with reference to TASS. “The state budget of Ukraine received grant funds in the amount of $2 billion from the World Bank trust fund,” the country’s Ministry of Finance said in a statement. “The funds were provided by the United States through a World Bank Trust Fund under the Public Expenditure Support for Sustainable Governance in Ukraine project,” the agency added.