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Ukraine tightens restrictions to fight coronavirus spread
Apr03

Ukraine tightens restrictions to fight coronavirus spread

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s government on Friday imposed a series of new restrictions designed to prevent the coronavirus outbreak spreading widely but said it hoped to soften the measures again in late April. …read more Source:: The...

'Dear Elon': Ukraine takes up Tesla's ventilator offer via Twitter
Apr02

'Dear Elon': Ukraine takes up Tesla's ventilator offer via Twitter

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine has taken to Twitter to ask Elon Musk to send it ventilators after the billionaire chief executive of Tesla Inc offered to ship them across the world during the coronavirus pandemic. …read more Source:: The...

Red Cross to deliver supplies for COVID-19 patients in separatist eastern Ukraine
Apr02

Red Cross to deliver supplies for COVID-19 patients in separatist eastern Ukraine

GENEVA (Reuters) – A planeload of medical supplies for COVID-19 patients and other relief goods has arrived in Ukraine to help people enduring a six-year-old conflict in the country’s east, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday. …read more Source:: The...

Ukraine parliament to vote on new ministers in special session
Mar30

Ukraine parliament to vote on new ministers in special session

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament will hold a special session on Monday to vote on plans to replace the country’s finance and health ministers, who have both been in office for less than a month. …read more Source:: The...

#NoDefault: Ukraine leader's party faces crunch vote for IMF loans
Mar29

#NoDefault: Ukraine leader's party faces crunch vote for IMF loans

KIEV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is the first Ukrainian leader in history to command a single party majority in parliament but its strength will be tested next week as he urges lawmakers to pass reform bills needed to unlock a $8 billion aid package. …read more Source:: The...

Thousands of Ukrainians waiting at Polish border to get home
Mar27

Thousands of Ukrainians waiting at Polish border to get home

WARSAW (Reuters) – Thousands of Ukrainians queued in long lines on Friday at the last three border crossings with Poland that remain open to get to their homeland before Ukraine closes its borders due to the coronavirus pandemic. …read more Source:: The...

Kiev monastery fights coronavirus with homemade hand sanitizer
Mar23

Kiev monastery fights coronavirus with homemade hand sanitizer

KIEV (Reuters) – The black-robed Orthodox clerics sit in a line under an icon in one of Ukraine’s oldest monasteries, mixing up batches of hand sanitizer to distribute to the poor and the needy. …read more Source:: The...

MH17 trial suspended until June 8 to give defence more time to prepare
Mar23

MH17 trial suspended until June 8 to give defence more time to prepare

THE HAGUE: The trial of four men accused of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine in 2014 will be adjourned until June 8 to give defence lawyers more time to prepare, judges at the hearing in the Netherlands ruled on Monday. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd …read more Source:: New Straits...

Ukraine parliament votes to appoint presidential ally as new prosecutor general
Mar17

Ukraine parliament votes to appoint presidential ally as new prosecutor general

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday voted to appoint Iryna Venediktova, a 41-year-old lawyer and close ally of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as the country’s new Prosecutor General. …read more Source:: The...

Ukraine shuts down transport, public spaces
Mar17

Ukraine shuts down transport, public spaces

KIEV: Ukraine late on Monday announced shutdowns of public transport, bars, restaurants and shopping malls to stem the spread of the coronavirus after President Volodymyr Zelensky promised to act “harshly, urgently, perhaps unpopularly”.The government supported Zelensky’s proposals and introduced restrictions on domestic movement, including...