- After several years out of the limelight, veteran politician Roman Bezsmertnyi prepares a comeback. Bezsmertnyi is about to run for president in March 31 election and launches a new party to participate in the parliamentary election in October.
- In a record five-hour-long interview Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko says he will support President Petro Poroshenko in the presidential election in March, but in the parliamentary election in October he may run as a candidate himself. He also shared many anecdotes and observations.
- Independent lawmaker Nadia Savchenko, who has been in pre-trial detention on suspicion of trying to organize a military coup, was nominated for presidency by her own party.
- Only five out of 20 registered presidential candidates have so far set up bank accounts to accept campaign donations, the Committee of Voters of Ukraine has reported.
- Kerchensky city court in Russia-occupied Crimea refused to release Ukrainian activist and political prisoner Volodymyr Balukh on parole. Balukh’s health has deteriorated in the time he’s been in prison.
- Three tourists from Kyiv were caught in an avalanche while hiking in the Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine. One of them died.
- State-owned gas extraction company Ukrgazvydobuvannya topped the list of the largest taxpayers in Ukraine in 2018.
- The National Bank of Ukraine in 2018 got back Hr 2.6 billion it gave in refinancing loans to insolvent banks, which is Hr 500 million more than in 2017.
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