KYIV, March 27 - Russia struck the northeastern city of Kharkiv with aerial bombs Wednesday for the first time since 2022, killing at least one civilian and wounding 16 others, local officials said.

KYIV, March 26 – Franco-Polish steps to expand restrictions on the import of Ukrainian food products into the EU could provoke the worsening and prolongation of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Mykola Solsky said in an interview with the Financial Times.

KYIV, March 28 – The security issue has become the reason for not returning to Ukraine for 50% of citizens who left the country after February 24, 2022.

This is evidenced by the results of an online survey assessing the migration processes and moods of Ukrainians, which were presented by executive director of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future Vadym Denysenko at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, March 28 – Most of the members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), at a meeting on March 15, believe that the regulator may switch to key policy rate reductions earlier than envisaged in its January macroeconomic forecast, subject to a slowdown in inflation, and three out of 11 members said that the NBU may launch a cycle of key policy rate cuts as soon as the autumn or even earlier, the NBU press service reported on Monday.

KYIV, March 28 – The economic recovery will be barely noticeable in 2023, a moderate GDP growth of 2% is expected, which implies the economic output will be at 71-73% of the pre-war level, such a macroeconomic forecast was published by the ICU investment group on Tuesday.

KYIV, March 28 - The United States on Tuesday threw support behind a special international tribunal to try Russia for "aggression" against Ukraine, building momentum to prosecute the crime for the first time since the aftermath of World War II, AFP reported.

KYIV, March 25 – A telephone conversation between U.S. President Joe Biden and President Volodymyr Zelensky will take place in the near future, but this call should be backed up by action, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs George Kent has said.

KYIV, March 26 – President Volodymyr Zelensky has been leading other politicians in popularity, according to an opinion poll conducted by the Rating sociological group on March 23-24.

KYIV, March 26 – Ukraine has invited Moldova to join the Crimean Platform, an international conference aimed at discussing ways of returning the peninsula back to the country after it was annexed by Russia in 2014.

KYIV, March 27 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has dismissed the head of the constitutional court, who has opposed some anti-corruption reforms, calling his actions a threat to national security, Reuters reported Saturday citing Zelenskiy's office.