Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on April 12 made another major push for modern and sophisticated U.S. weapons in a meeting at the Pentagon with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Shmyhal said Ukraine “still needs intensive military support — more air-defense systems that minimize the impact of Russian air strikes, …

Restrictions on media freedom, unpunished violations by officials and alleged violence by police continued to be problems in south-east European countries in 2020, said a new US State Department report. The US State Department’s 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which was published on Tuesday, warned that countries in …

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić also spoke about the political situation and the announced elections in four municipalities in the north of Kosovo at a meeting with Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija in Raška. He said that the elections were scheduled even though Belgrade requested that the ZSO be formed first …