Новости за 28.02.2020

U.S. stocks sank again on Wall Street on Feb. 28, pushing the S&P 500 index down another 2.7% and putting the market on track for its worst week since October 2008. Read more here.

A European country could help evacuate Ukrainian citizens from the Chinese city of Wuhan, at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said. “As you know, Ukraine has helped other countries pull their citizens [out of China]. Everyone does this, not only us. In response, we’re now hoping that we’ll also […]

MOSCOW – Moscow will deport 88 foreign nationals for allegedly violating quarantine measures imposed on them as a precaution against the coronavirus, the RIA news agency cited Moscow’s deputy mayor as saying on Feb. 28. Read more here.

MOSCOW — The Ukrainian police on Feb. 28 questioned Ukraine’s former president, Petro O. Poroshenko, after threatening to arrest him if he failed to appear, in what a growing chorus of critics including the European Union say is a politically motivated vendetta. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe […]

ANKARA – Turkish officials told a Russian delegation in Ankara on Feb. 28 that a sustainable ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib region must be established immediately, Turkey’s foreign ministry said, after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Syrian government attacks. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko has said that during his visit to the United States he asked the leadership of the United Nations to send a mission to Ukraine in order to assess the possibility of deploying a UN peacekeeping mission to Donbas. Prystaiko said in an interview with the Ukraine 24 television channel on […]

Former President Petro Poroshenko, who is the subject of several criminal investigations, could have been handed charges of abuse of office on Feb. 28. Instead, he narrowly escaped being charged, a source in law enforcement told the Kyiv Post. The source, who is familiar with the investigations, wasn’t authorized to speak to the press. The […]

Bulgaria says it is tightening security along its border with Turkey to prevent an inflow of illegal migrants amid reports that Ankara may be relaxing its border controls to allow Syrian refugees to enter the European Union. Read more here.

Russia’s hybrid military forces have violated the ceasefire regime in Donbas four times on Feb. 28, in particular using 120 mm mortars, which are prohibited by the Minsk Agreements, the headquarters of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) said on Facebook. In the area of responsibility of the Skhid (East) task force, the Russia-backed separatists mounted […]

Ukraine prepares for outbreak as coronavirus reaches its neighbors Russia, Belarus and Romania have confirmed cases. Officials have tightened sanitary control at borders and are preparing hospitals. Local elites as entrenched as ever Corrupt mayors remain in power across Ukraine, signaling President Zelensky may have abandoned promises to root out bad actors. Read this week’s cover […]

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will gather for an extraordinary meeting on demand of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. Verkhovna Rada Chairman Dmytro Razumkov has signed a respective instruction. According to the instruction of the parliament’s chairman dated Feb. 28, 2020, the meeting is called by the president of Ukraine in line with Part 8 […]

The World Health Organization has upgraded the global risk from the novel coronavirus to “very high” as the virus continued to spread. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

New rape cases in Russia have shot up by 72%, according to federal prosecutors’ criminal data cited by the state-run TASS news agency on Feb. 28. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, fill in the Email field

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on his successor, Volodymyr Zelensky, to stop “persecuting” the opposition and instead carry out his presidential duties. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate

On Feb. 28, Ukraine’s leading anti-corruption and judicial watchdogs urged President Volodymyr Zelensky to immediately unblock his own judicial reform, which has been stalled since last year. The judicial reform law was initiated by Zelensky to oust tainted judges and create credible judicial institutions, and he signed it in November. Under the law, a new […]

CEO of Mastercard Europe SA Inga Andreieva says the share of adults who have no bank accounts in Ukraine is 37%. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate

ISTANBUL — Turkey vowed on Feb. 28 to escalate military actions in Idlib after 33 of its soldiers were killed in an airstrike it blamed on Syria, as the risk of a major military confrontation between Russia and Turkey in the region increased sharply. Read more here. Subscribe to Kyiv Post Ukraine Digest Subscribe Please, […]

The volume of issued e-money in Ukraine grew 2.5-fold in 2019. The amount of digital money circulating in Ukraine last year grew by Hr 203 million, the National Bank of Ukraine reported, with total volume reaching Hr 16.7 billion. 16 banks can issue digital currency in Ukraine, including Alfa-Bank, PrivatBank, Oschadbank, Raiffeisen Bank Aval and […]

The United Nations Security Council is due to hold an urgent briefing on Friday to discuss the situation in Syria’s Idlib province, the Belgian Permanent Mission to the UN said in a statement. “Belgium together with Germany, Estonia, France, Dominican Republic, UK and U.S. requested an urgent briefing of the UN Security Council on the […]

Ukraine has not had confirmed cases of COVID-19, or coronavirus, yet. But as the disease rapidly spreads across Europe, already hitting neighbors Russia, Belarus and Romania, officials have tightened sanitary control at borders and are preparing hospitals and doctors for the outbreak. The government already faced criticism over poor handling of the evacuation of Ukrainians […]

Former Ukrainian President and current Verkhovna Rada deputy Petro Poroshenko arrived for questioning by an investigator of the National Bureau of Investigations on Feb. 28 morning and said the court had ordered to close the case of judges appointed by the president in which he was involved. Poroshenko and his lawyers were greeted by supporters […]

A bipartisan letter was sent on March 4, 2015, to President Barack Obama, urging him to approve lethal defensive aid for Ukraine in light of a recent ceasefire agreement. Read more here.

Editor’s Note: This story is the third installment of a four-part series called “Unkept Promises” about the lack of progress in four key areas since President Volodymyr Zelensky took office in May. Previous stories in the series examined why no one has been successfully prosecuted for the multibillion-dollar bank fraud of the last decade, and […]

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on Feb. 27 approved the country’s government defense order for the next three years. Read more here. SUPPORT THE KYIV POST Independent Ukraine needs independent journalism Subscribe Donate

In an October post on TikTok, digital magician and video star Zach King walks up to the counter at Chipotle to receive a burrito bowl with chips. After he pays, he jumps and his clothes change in an instant into astronaut gear. Soon, everything in the store is floating in apparent zero gravity. Read more […]