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The national soccer team of Ukraine defeated its Swiss counterpart 2:1 during the opening round of the UEFA Nations League, a biennial international soccer competition among top national teams in Euro
Sep. 4, 2020
The Ukrainian skies on Sept. 4 welcomed rare and magnificent guests — three U.S. Air Force strategic bombers Boeing B-52H Stratofortresses carried out an observation flight over the country’s territor
Sep. 4, 2020
Novoshakhtinsky Oil Refinery in Russia, controlled by the family of Viktor Medvedchuk, sells its products to the U.S. corporation ExxonMobil. Medvedchuk is the head of the Opposition Platform – For Li
Sep. 3, 2020
The Pechersk District Court has ruled that state-owned PrivatBank must pay about $350 million to British companies owned by the Surkis brothers. The six companies’ deposits were converted into Privat
Sep. 3, 2020
A group of unknown individuals has attacked a bus on the Kyiv–Kharkiv highway, shooting at its passengers with rubber bullets and wounding four. The attack occurred on Aug. 27 near the city of Lyuboty
Aug. 28, 2020
If there is one mountain everyone should conquer in Ukraine, it is Hoverla. With this guide, you will hike Ukraine’s highest peak with ease and wonder in one day. The whole trip — from Kyiv to Hoverla
Aug. 28, 2020
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has passed a bill introducing changes to the country’s national budget of 2020 and increasing the minimum wage by 5.86%, from Hr 4,723 to Hr 5,000 ($182). Dur
Aug. 25, 2020
Thousands of Ukrainians flocked to the center of Kyiv to celebrate Ukraine’s 29th Independence Day on Aug. 24. The participants include Ukrainian war veterans who have fought in eastern Donbas, cultur
Aug. 24, 2020
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his address to the nation on Independence Day from Kyiv’s Sofiyska Square has promised to hold a military parade once the country regains control over all
Aug. 24, 2020
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had a phone call with President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Erdogan congratulated Zelensky and all Ukrainians on the 29th anniversary of ind
Aug. 23, 2020
The son of President Volodymyr Zelensky had contracted COVID-19, but already recovered, the president said at a briefing in Mykolaiv on Aug. 21. Zelensky admitted that his 7-year-old son Kyrylo got
Aug. 21, 2020
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has determined the need to purchase EM-120 mortars produced by EMCO, Republic of Bulgaria, which are registered with NATO, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry h
Aug. 21, 2020
Ukraine
For centuries, Ukraine has been a crossroads where Europe met the Middle East and Asia. It has been inhabited by different peoples, controlled by different states and experienced horrendous cataclysms
Aug. 20, 2020
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If you’ve spent any time in Ukraine, you’ve likely heard their names, seen monuments to them or even encountered their portraits on the Ukrainian national currency, the hryvnia. They are historical fi
Aug. 20, 2020
It’s not just cinematography that unites the iconic U.S. director Steven Spielberg and popular actress Mila Kunis. Both of them have Ukrainian roots and ancestry. The world’s pop culture includes many
Aug. 20, 2020
Borys Paton, a Ukrainian engineer who chaired the country’s National Academy of Sciences for over five decades, has died in Kyiv at 101. “Metallurgist, engineer, inventor, scholar, lecturer,” Presiden
Aug. 19, 2020