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Photos: Fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia escalates in Nagorno-Karabakh

Fierce fighting between Azeri and Armenian forces continue for the third day in a row in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Business Update

Hryvnia/$: 28.3
Interfax; Owner of Eva chain sees net profit rise by 28.4% in 2019
Interfax: Metinvest will buy back all 2021 eurobonds for $ 115.3 mln, 2023 eurobonds for $ 193.2 mln
Interfax: Ukrainian Grain Association plans to create public roster of unscrupulous grain suppliers
Interfax: Ukraine relaxes requirements for immigration of foreign IT specialists
Ukrinform: Industrial tourism in Ukraine to receive development roadmap

Opinions

Peter Dickinson: EU-Ukraine tensions mount ahead of annual summit
David A. Andelman: Is Trump leading America toward a Belarusian model presidency?
Urmas Paet: Nord Stream 2 must be stopped immediately
Wall Street Journal: The FBI’s bad intelligence
Sinan Ulgen: European foreign policy is drowning in the Mediterranean
Eva Nikolashvili: Occupied Crimea turning into a desert
Mason Clark: Belarusian movement likely developing local organization
Oleksandr Shepotilo, Maryna Osiichuck: Did war in Ukraine make Russians happier?
George Barros: Kremlin might be preparing for a military deployment to Belarus
Halya Coynash: Voices for freedom

Times of Malta: Russia’s behavior must be punished
Halya Coynash: ECHR intervenes over Ukrainian hostage with HIV in Donetsk