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Turkey confirms that US will send warships to support Ukraine

The United States will send two warships to the Black Sea to support Ukraine in the face of the growing Russian military presence in the east of that country, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed today. We were notified through diplomatic channels two weeks ago, according to the Montreux

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April 9, 2021

Ukraine’s accession to NATO would send “real signal” to Russia

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, said today that “the only way” to end the war in Eastern Ukraine is through the country’s accession to NATO, arguing that it would send a “real signal to Russia”. “NATO is the only way to end the war in Donbass”, reads a message

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April 6, 2021

Russian military power in the Arctic

In recent years, the climate emergency has removed many of Russia’s natural obstacles to the North at an unexpected rate, experts acknowledge. “The melting of the ice is happening faster than scientists predicted or thought possible several years ago. This will be a dramatic transformation in the coming decades,” the

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April 6, 2021

Greenland divided between environment and economy

This Tuesday is election day in Greenland. The autonomous territory has just over 55 thousand inhabitants but an enormous wealth in mineral terms and it was this detail that motivated the holding of early elections. The end of the governmental coalition was due to the lack of consensus on the

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April 6, 2021