Russian military buildup
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has acknowledged for the first time in a fortnight the accumulation of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine. According…
Donbas
Sergeant Major Vitaliy Pavlysko of the 24th detached mechanized brigade got killed in Donbas on 7 November, the Yavoriv district state administration in Lviv Region
has reported…
Law on oligarchs
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a law on preventing threats to national security posed by the excessive influence of oligarchs.
"In all successful European…
Appointments
Parliament has appointed Yuliya Svyrydenko as first deputy prime minister and economy minister, Pavlo Ryanikin as minister for strategic industries, Iryna Vereshchuk…
Reshuffle
Defence Minister Andriy Taran has tendered his resignation, the Cabinet of Ministers' representative in parliament, Taras Melnychuk, has said. The outgoing deputy prime…
Daylight saving time ends
Ukraine turned clocks backward one hour (GMT+2) on 31 October.
Russian military buildup at border
A renewed buildup of Russian troops near the Ukrainian…
Polio
Specialists of the Ukrainian Health Ministry have found the virus in Transcarpathian Region during an investigation into a polio case in Rivne, chief sanitary doctor Ihor Kuzin…
Coronavirus
Kyiv will enter the red coronavirus zone as of 1 November. Cafes, shopping centres, non-food markets and stores will have to close down unless 100% of their staff are…
Killed in action in Donbas
The Russian occupying troops have committed nine ceasefire violations today, two of which involved the use of weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements…
Scythian artifacts to return to Ukraine
An appeals court in the Netherlands has ruled that Ukraine has legal control over a trove of ancient artifacts from Crimea that was on loan…
EU aid
Ukraine has received from the European Commission the second tranche of the fifth programme of macrofinancial assistance in the amount of 600m euros, President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy…
Gas
Ukraine offered Russia a discount for shipping natural gas to Europe to increase supply and ease the region’s energy crunch, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The discount…
President's office accused of pressure
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed as "hype" the statements made by the presenters of the Countdown talk show on the Ukrainian public…
IMF
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission team and Ukraine's authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on an updated set of economic, financial, and structural policies…
Donbas
The OSCE has suspended its monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine following protests near its headquarters in separatist-controlled Donetsk, Reuters has reported,…