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Sergeant Major Valery Markus met with President Zelensky in Kyiv and took official photographs with him.

Kyiv, Kyiv
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Stefan Korshak (Substack) Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent Kyiv Post Censor.NET

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Valery Markus (person) Volodymyr Zelenskyy (person) Gitanas Nausėda (person) Kyiv (location) NATO (organization) European Union (organization) Andrzej Duda (person) Poland (organization) Ukraine (organization) Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (location) Vilnius (location) Gitanas Nauseda (person) Lithuania (organization) Ihor Zhovkva (person) President's Office of Ukraine (organization) Olena Zelenska (person) Valerii Markus (person) Dmytro Lubinets (person) Ministry of Digital Transformation (organization) Kateryna Handziuk (person) Ilham Aliyev (person) Russian Ministry of Defense (organization) Verkhovna Rada (organization) State Emergency Service of Ukraine (organization) Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (organization)

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Stefan Korshak (Substack) → Source tone: likely

Sergeant Major Valery Markus met with President Zelensky in Kyiv and took official photographs with him.

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: likely

Nausėda will visit Kyiv on Wednesday, 28 June, as the Lithuanian president said at a press conference in The Hague after meeting with several NATO leaders.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets confirmed knowledge by Belarusian authorities of transporting children and POWs to Belarus.

Kyiv Post → Source tone: likely

The Azerbaiani embassy in Kyiv was damaged during three separate Russian attacks in 2025 – incidents that Aliyev said could not be dismissed as mere collateral damage from Russia’s war in Ukraine. ... Moscow Denies

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

President Volodymyr Zelensky held a bilateral meeting with President Gitanas Nausėda in Kyiv on Constitution Day of Ukraine.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

The leaders agreed on positions on the eve of the NATO summit in Vilnius.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:31.412Z

Source story: day-491-2023-06-30