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Here’s the latest from the Kyiv Post:
- The Ukrainian Armed Forces created a light infantry brigade that will specialize in hunting enemies through forested and swampy terrain. The 61st Jager Infantry Brigade will most likely bolster defense along the country’s northern border.
- Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is on a working visit to Brussels where he met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and emphasized the need to put pressure on Russia to free captured Ukrainian sailors. Poroshenko alsoawarded an Order of Prince Yaroslave the Wise to European Council president Donald Tusk and European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker.
- The European Union extended the mandate of the EU Advisory Mission for two more years, to support Ukraine in creating sustainable and trustworthy security services.
- President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy quipped that President Petro Poroshenko needs to cool it with his latest spree of official appointments, including Supreme Court judges, the army’s high command personnel and the chairman of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting.
- Verkhovna Rada deputy Serhiy Leschenko said he would publish documents allegedly given by Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko to U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, as well as a page from the infamous “black ledger” of the Party of Regions that mentioned payoffs to former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Leschenko said that Lutsenko gave Giuliani false information about the case.
