Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has urged Washington to speed up deliveries of air defense systems Ukraine has called on the US to provide it with Patriot air defense systems, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said on Twitter on Thursday. The request was made during a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Moscow says the Dutch court’s ruling was based on partisan evidence while its arguments were discarded The decision taken on Thursday by a Dutch court on the MH17 plane crash was absolutely political, the Russian Foreign Ministry has insisted in a statement. Earlier in the day, judges found three people guilty of downing the Malaysian passenger…

The region shouldn’t become an “arena for a big power contest,” the Chinese president says Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that the Asia-Pacific area was “no one’s backyard,” urging for greater regional cooperation on development and security. Xi’s statement was made in written remarks to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Thailand and…