Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who previously could not make visits to EU countries due to sanctions, will be invited to the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Germany in February 2019, German diplomat and MSC Chairman Wolfgang Ischinger said on Thursday

The UN Security Council will convene later in the day an open session to address the situation in Ukraine in light of the upcoming elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the French Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet on Thursday in Kiev to discuss the situations in the war-torn region of Donbas and the Azov Sea, the Ukrainian presidential press service said on Tuesday in a statement.