This is the Russian president’s first trip to Mariupol in the Donetsk region where he travelled around several districts of the city and interacted with residents.
An unprecedented wartime deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices are pushing more people into poverty has been extended, officials said Saturday.
On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed close to the city of Torez in Eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. Within hours, the
Russian President Vladimir Putin said a week ago, before the Federal Assembly, that Russia was suspending participation in the New START, stressing that this did not imply a withdrawal on Russia's part from the treaty.