Kolomoyskyy under US sanctions The US State Department on Friday said it designated former Ukrainian public official Ihor Kolomoyskyy as ineligible to enter the United States, accusing…
Gorshenin Institute Gorshenin Institute will hold a roundtable "Financialization of the world economy and increase of the global debt: challenges and opportunities for Ukraine" at…
MP's case The pro-presidential Servant of the People faction expelled MP Oleksandr Dubinskyy tonight with 180 of 246 votes. Dubinskyy was among a group of Ukrainian nationals recently…
MP under fire The pro-presidential faction Servant of the People will hold an internal survey to decide whether it should expel its member, MP Oleksandr Dubinskyy, who was designated…
Coronavirus This midnight Ukraine is moving from a strict lockdown, which was introduced on 8 January, back to an orange-zone quarantine. Shops, shopping malls, cinemas and cafes will…
Deadly inferno Fifteen residents died in a fire which broke out in a nursing home in Kharkiv on the afternoon of 21 January, the State Emergencies Service has said. Nine people were…
Navalny The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is "deeply concerned" about the detention of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, seeing it as "a continuation of the Kremlin's shameful…
Pipeline explosion Fire broke out at the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas main near the village of Kalaydyntsi, Lubny District in Poltava Region due an unauthorised interference at 3.30…
Release Ukrainian serviceman Oleksandr Shumkov has returned home after three years in a Russian penal colony, ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova has said. Shumkov, who was Right Sector leader…
Nuclear waste Ukraine will stop sending its spent nuclear fuel for storage to Russia as of next year, according to the president of the national atomic energy company Enerhoatom, Petro…
Population The population in Ukraine has decreased by 231,600 since the beginning of the year, down to 41,670,800 on 1 November 2020, Interfax-Ukraine has quoted the State Statistics…
Human rights The Kyiv court of appeal has once again refused to release musician and servicemen Andriy Antonenko (aka Riffmaster) from custody. He is suspected of involvement in the…
Ukraine marks Volunteers Day on 5 December and Armed Forces Day on 6 December. Ukrainian army In his congratulatory speech on this occasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said: "Ukrainians…
Coronavirus On the morning of 4 December, Ukraine registered 15,131 new Covid-19 cases, 235 fatalities and 13,383 recoveries, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov has said. President Volodymyr…
Coronavirus On the morning of 30 November, Ukraine registered 9,946 new Covid-19 cases. Some 114 people died, 5,571 recovered and 1,161 were hospitalised within 24 hours. Health Minister…