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The extrajudicial execution of Denis Kireev in March 2022 was due to a lack of coordination between security services, the top aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on Thursday. Mikhail Podoliak was responding to a Wall Street Journal feature describing the 45-year-old banker as an asset of Ukrainian military intelligence, who supposedly helped save Kiev from Russian attack.

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:30 P.M.) – The Turkish presidency announced that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will receive in Istanbul tomorrow his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, against the backdrop of the new escalation in the Donbass region. In a statement, the Turkish presidency confirmed that Erdogan and Zelensky would chair in Istanbul the ninth meeting of the high-level strategic cooperation council between the two countries.The statement indicated that the meeting, which will be held in the presence of the relevant ministers, will review “all aspects of Turkish-Ukrainian relations that rise to the level of strategic partnership and the steps that can be...

“The head of state met with him at the President’s Office on September 30 in the evening. During the meeting, Tom Cruise informed Vladimir Zelensky that he was interested in Ukrainian locations for the filming of one of his new film projects. This was another reason to visit our country, ”the press service of the President’s Office said. Zelensky was told that he had told Cruise about his own experience in the cinema and about the new legislation on compensation to foreign producers who make films in Ukraine. American film actor Tom Cruise arrived in Kiev at the invitation of...