Новости за 10.02.2020

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Feb. 10 he saw no preparations taking place for a promised summit over the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, adding that he had little hope it would make any progress even if it goes ahead. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe […]

The number of registered internally displaced persons who fled from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as of Feb. 10 amounted to 1,440,167, the press service of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine reported. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent […]

Airstrikes in the village of Abyan, Aleppo province, killed nine civilians, including six children on Feb. 10 morning, as the coalition of forces loyal to the governments of Russia and Syria continues its bombardment to drive out opposition fighters. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate

It’s not every day that a Ukrainian TV series motivates teenagers to talk to adults about their problems and fears. But the recently-created “Pershi Lastivky,” (“Early Swallows,” a reference to the birds considered the first signs of spring) has taken Ukraine by storm, influencing thousands of schoolchildren across the country to call helplines and open […]

Ukraine is pressing Iran to send the so-called black box recorders from the Boeing Co. plane that crashed after taking off from Tehran last month, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said. Read more here.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky “has brought fresh energy” to efforts to end the conflict in Donbas, according to the security report published on the website of the Munich Security Conference. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

Britain’s health department declared the new coronavirus an “imminent threat” to public health and announced a series of measures to combat the spread of the virus, a sign of the seriousness with which local health authorities are treating the fears of the epidemic. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill […]

Illia Ponomarenko, the Kyiv Post’s security and defense beat reporter since January 2017, has been chosen by the Alfred Friendly Press Partners program as one of the international fellows. The designation means he will work at a Washington, D.C., news outlet that covers defense and security issues and study at the Missouri School of Journalism […]

Attorney General William Barr said on Feb. 10 the Justice Department is taking information that U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is gathering in Ukraine about the president’s Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

Illegal armed groups have violated the ceasefire regime in Donbas four times on Feb. 10, the headquarters of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) said on Facebook on Monday. “Today, on Feb. 10, no casualties among the JFO servicemen have been reported as a result of enemy attacks,” reads the statement. The enemy mounted two attacks […]

Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk starts the so-called Great Construction program. The program aims to modernize infrastructure in Ukraine by building or renovating major facilities in all regions of the country, according to the Cabinet of Ministers. “We are starting massive construction projects and major repairs of schools, kindergartens, emergency departments in hospitals, stadiums and roads […]

Attorney General William Barr acknowledged Feb. 10 that the Justice Department is evaluating information from Ukraine provided by Rudy Giuliani, who has sought to tar Democratic rival Joe Biden and revive a discredited theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill […]

Kyiv Economic Court has unblocked the process on the privatization of PJSC Centrenergo, the press service of the State Property Fund of Ukraine has reported. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) says exports from Ukraine in 2019 rose by 6.4% due to record shipments of agricultural products abroad, despite price deterioration for Ukrainian exporters. Read more here.

Both national and international sources have talked about an allegedly massive increase of labour migration of Ukrainian citizens to Poland and other EU countries. After the political upheaval and the economic crisis since 2014, major changes in migration and migration patterns of Ukrainians indeed appear likely. However, the debate so far has often been driven […]

Kyiv City Council has granted a decades-old willow the status of a botanical monument in honor of Soviet rock legend Viktor Tsoi in the same neighborhood where he was filmed in a movie shot in Ukraine’s capital. Read more here.   Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

U.S. President Donald Trump will propose on Feb. 10 a 21% cut in foreign aid and slashes to social safety-net programs in his $4.8 trillion (£3.7 trillion) budget proposal for fiscal 2021, according to senior administration officials. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk has said that he expects that Ukraine’s GDP would grow by 4% in 2020. “… Speaking of numbers, we will have a slowdown in the fourth quarter, but objectively in 2020 we could reach 4% according to our estimates,” Honcharuk said in an interview with Ukrayinska Pravda ezine. As reported, […]

Ukrainian grain exports from sea ports fell to 772,000 tonnes in the week of Feb. 1-7 from 1.228 million tonnes a week earlier, preliminary data from APK-Inform consultancy showed on Feb. 10. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

Mr. Polo Mwonyonyi who created the online fashion brand in his own name www.polomwonyonyi.com.ua is not Karl Lagerfeld nor Jean Paul Gaultier. He is a legal resident of Ukraine and founder of Mwonyonyi Xoldingz Ukraine –a company with several start-up projects in its portfolio. Already living in Ukraine for 6 years Mr. Mwonyonyi , or […]

On Feb. 9, the armed formations of the Russian Federation violated ceasefire in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in eastern Ukraine nine times. Read more here.

A growing number of countries around the world are evacuating or planning to evacuate diplomatic staff and citizens from parts of China hit by the new coronavirus. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk says 10% of government posts are planned to be discarded in 2020. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate