Ukraine

Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Dmytro Kuleba and Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Vasyl Bodnar responded to a statement by Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin on the “possible secession of a number of regions from Ukraine.”

The state budget of Ukraine will receive 108.5 million hryvnias from the sale of three state-owned objects.

World Bank has improved the forecast for Ukraine's GDP growth in 2019. The World Bank raised the GDP forecast for 2019 from 2.7% to 3.4%.

Russia admits seizure and militarization of Ukrainian oil rigs in the Black Sea

A Year without Ukrainian activist Katya Handzyuk rally was held in Kyiv, near the President’s Office, as well as in 40 other Ukrainian cities

Ukrainian schoolchildren have won 10th place out of 189 countries at the FIRST Global Challenge of the Robot Olympiad in Dubai. The kids constructed a robot that can clean up the ocean from plastic. The main task of the teams was to create a robot capable of collecting large and small balloons that symbolized garbage. Then the robot had to […]

This year, Ukraine ranks 85th out of 141, having dropped 2 positions since last year, according to the WEF Global Competitiveness report. Last year, Ukraine ranked 83rd out of 140 countries. Ukraine ranks 104th in terms of state institutions (last year – 110th); 57th – in terms of infrastructure; 78th – in terms of technology adoption (last year – 77th). […]

On Sunday, October 6, Ukrainian activists gathered on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv to protest against the “Steinmeier Formula.” Protesters were holding the national flags and “No surrender” posters. A stage was rigged up near the Independence Monument. Activists, opposition MPs and military stood on the stage and took the floor. On October 6, participants in the viche against the “Steinmeier […]

Activists launched a movement against capitulation and announced a viche on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. Activists protesting against the signing of the Steinmeier formula by Ukraine under the Minsk Agreements have launched the Movement of Resistance to Capitulation and announced a viche on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. “On October 2, 2019, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that a representative […]

The State Bureau of Investigation has opened criminal proceedings  into the alleged abuse of power by former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko. The proceedings have been opened based on the statement by Chairman of the parliamentary Servant of the People faction David Arakhamia. According to his statement, Lutsenko in a preliminary conspiracy with a number of former MPs and […]

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky missed the official events on commemoration of the Babyn Yar victims, but attended the memorial later. On September 29, Zelensky, for unknown reasons, missed the official events dedicated to the commemoration of the Babyn Yar tragedy victims in Kyiv. Later, he came to the memorial privately. During the ceremony, Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich criticized President Zelensky […]

Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk has been recognized as the best foreign boxer by the British Boxing Board of Control. Information about the award for the Ukrainian was announced by the promotional company Matchroom Boxing. It also states that Callum Smith was recognized as the Boxer of the Year in Britain. It is worth noting that the British Boxing Board of […]