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…
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…
MP under scrutiny
The Prosecutor-General's Office has opened criminal proceedings against Servant of the People MP Oleksandr Dubinskyy on two charges: tax evasion and money laundering…
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…
Ship sinks
The Arvin ship under the Palau flag, owned by a Ukrainian company, sank near the Turkish coast on 17 January, ambassador Andriy Sybiha has said. According to preliminary…
Gas
Naftogaz Ukrayiny has launched its first tight gas deposit. Gas extracted from the Svyatohirsk deposit in the Yuzivka area is being fed into the main gas pipeline network as of…
Moldova
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu have signed a number of bilateral documents during the latter's visit to Kyiv. In particular…
Donbas
A Ukrainian serviceman was killed near Pisky as Russia-backed militants fired a heavy machine guns, small and sniper arms in the area. Overall, there have been six ceasefire…
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…
Coronavirus
The Cabinet of Ministers has added detergents and printed press to the list of eligible goods which can be sold during the strict lockdown scheduled for 8-25 January,…
Coronavirus
There are five variants of the coronavirus originating from China in Ukraine, the Public Health Centre has said, quoting results of a study of 50 samples from several…
Court head suspended
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suspended Constitutional Court head Oleksandr Tupytskyy for two months "for the sake of restoring justice and resolving the…
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,…
Coronavirus
On the morning of 22 December, Ukraine reported 8,513 new Covid-19 cases, 232 fatalities and 14,020 recoveries. The case total since the start of the pandemic has thus…