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U.S. Democrat politician, Nancy Pelosi, who is the minority leader of the the U.S. House of Representatives, was in Kyiv yesterday. Here are some tweets of her visit:
Here's a mistral update from our news desk:
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says Paris will pay Russia about 1.2 billion euros ($1.32 billion) for the cancelled Mistral warship deal.
Le Drian said on radio RTL on August 6 that the issue had been discussed by French President Francois Hollande and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin the previous day and that "there is no further dispute on the matter."
Le Drian said the initial price for the two Mistral helicopter-carrying warships was 1.2 billion euros, but France will actually pay a sum less than that because the ships were unfinished and the contract was suspended.
He added there are no penalties against France within the 2011 contract, which was first postponed in 2014 and then cancelled because of Russia's role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Le Drian said several other countries had expressed interest in buying the two warships, which Russian officials had named the Vladivostok and the Sevastopol.
(Reuters, TASS)
It seems Ukraine is finally getting around to prosecuting Yanukovych (from RFE/RL's news desk):
Ukraine has subpoenaed fugitive former President Viktor Yanukovych to testify in a corruption investigation.
Ukraine's state-run newspaper Uryadoviy Kuryer (The Government's Courier) carried the text of the subpoena on August 6.
The subpoena states that Yanukovych is requested to arrive at the Prosecutor-General's Office in Kyiv on August 11 for questioning related to an investigation into crimes committed under Article 191 of the Criminal Code.
Article 191, Paragraph 5, of the code relates to the "misappropriation of property" and embezzlement of funds through the use of a public office to commit large-scale fraud.
Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin said on July 28 that the process of trying Yanukovych in absentia has begun.
Yanukovych fled Ukraine in late February 2014 amid violent pro-European mass protests and is currently residing in Russia, though his exact whereabouts is unknown.
He has been accused of using state funds to live luxuriously while president, as his presidential estate was discovered to have dozens of expensive vehicles, ornate furnishings, and a zoo on it after he fled. (Uryadoviy Kuryer, UNIAN)