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16.04.2026 18:33 During the plenary session of the Ukrainian-German intergovernmental consultations, chaired by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and German Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal outlined the challenges facing energy security, the current needs of the Ukrainian energy sector, and described the opportunities for developing Ukrainian-German cooperation.

16.04.2026 18:33 As part of the visit of the Ukrainian delegation led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Germany, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy of Ukraine, Denys Shmyhal, held a meeting with the German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Katherina Reiche.

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16.04.2026 18:33 Ukraine and Germany are scaling up key areas of defence cooperation, particularly in air defence, the exchange of battlefield data, the development of drone capabilities, and joint weapons production.

16.04.2026 18:33 On Wednesday NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte participated in a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group in Berlin. The meeting was jointly chaired by German Minister of Defence, Boris Pistorius and UK Defence Secretary, John Healey.

16.04.2026 18:33 Yesterday, 14 April, Iceland and Poland confirmed their readiness to join the Council of Europe's Enlarged Partial Agreement establishing the administrative committee of the special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. According to Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna, this marks significant progress towards launching the tribunal's work.

16.04.2026 18:33 When asked to comment on the recent claim by Raymond Greene, Director of the Taipei Office of The American Institute in Taiwan , following Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun's recent mainland visit, that the US has consistently hoped for stable cross-Straits interactions and expects the mainland to maintain communication channels with all political parties in the island of Taiwan, especially the so-called "democratically-elected government," while refraining from "threats or military pressure," Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said at a regular press conference on Wednesday that certain individuals in the US are stirring things up and repeatedly hyping the so-called "mainland threat or military pressure," which completely distorts the facts and reflects ulterior motives.

16.04.2026 18:33 A mainland spokesperson said on Wednesday that no matter how large a defense budget Taiwan's Lai Ching-te authorities allocate or how many weapons they purchase, it will not alter the eventual failure of their "Taiwan independence" attempts and may even accelerate it.

16.04.2026 18:33 China's Qingzhou experimental cargo spacecraft, which was successfully launched on March 30, released on Wednesday to the public its first batch of scientific and engineering experimental results. The spacecraft has successfully completed flight control tests, actively raised its orbit to 600 kilometers and officially entered the long-term operation phase, Global Times learned from the spacecraft's developer, Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

16.04.2026 18:33 NASA and Voyager Technologies have signed an order for the seventh private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than 2028 from Florida.

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16.04.2026 18:33 Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman detailed a comprehensive vision for the service's next 15 years, publicly introducing the "Future Operating Environment" and the "Objective Force" that will prepare the service to win in an increasingly contested and complex domain.

16.04.2026 18:33 His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, met in Jeddah yesterday with President of the European Council António Costa

16.04.2026 18:33 A Russian naval flotilla composed of the corvettes Sovershennyy and Rezkiy, along with the medium seagoing tanker Pechenga, arrived in Zhanjiang, South China's Guangdong Province, on Wednesday morning, kicking off a five-day friendly visit, according to Xinhua News Agency.