- Ukraine ranks fourth in the world by the number of cashless transactions — paying with phones, smart watches, bracelets, according to Mastercard. Cashless payment services Apple Pay and Google Pay have only been working in Ukraine for a year.
- Another victory for Ukraine’s tech sector: Verbit, a transcription startup with offices in Tel Aviv, New York, and Kyiv has attracted $23 million in investment.
- Ukraine has restarted exports of its own natural gas to Europe after 15 years, exporting a relatively small amount to Slovakia, seemingly to demonstrate to the Ukrainian gas sector how easily it can be done.
- A man shot dead a husband and wife as they were leaving a courthouse in Mykolaiv, a city in southern Ukraine. The attacker reportedly was in conflict with the victims over money.
- Ukraine has withdrawn from the agreement on the general conditions of supplies of goods between organizations of CIS states.
- Dmytro Gnap, a former investigative journalist running for president of Ukraine in the March 31 election, is the only candidate trying to crowdfund the required Hr 2.5 million registration fee. However, several days before the registration deadline, he is still short of Hr 2 million.
- A Ukrainian hip hop singer said she had been tricked into coming to President Petro Poroshenko’s campaign kickoff event and had not intended to support his bid for a second term. This isn’t the first time a celebrity claims to have been tricked into promoting Poroshenko.
- Russia is trying to influence the 2019 Ukrainian elections to install friendlier leadership, U.S. National Intelligence Director Daniel Coats told the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.
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