Despite its non-stop pledges of support for Kiev, the EU imposes new tariffs against food imports from Ukraine in order to prop up its own domestic industry.
Kiev prioritizes the return of captured neo-Nazi fighters from its Azov Brigade instead of other regular military personnel, some of whom have waited for nearly two years to return home.
Iran opens a crucial new railway route in the developing north-south transport corridor, linking a range of Asian nations from Russia to India.