KYIV, March 16 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced nationwide shutdowns on Monday to contain the coronavirus spread, called for government restrictions on food exports and for aid talks with overseas donors to support the economy, Reuters reported.
KIEV, March 16 - President Petro Poroshenko believes that the blockade by activists against Donbas territories uncontrolled by Kiev is a very dangerous strategy and has helped destroy Ukraine in Donbas.
KIEV, March 16 - President Petro Poroshenko signed an order Thursday imposing sanctions on Russian-owned banks in Kiev’s latest protest against Russian support for separatists in the east of the country, The Associated Press reported.
KIEV, March 15 - Representatives of nationalistic organizations barred the entrance to a Sberbank office on Lenin Street in the city of Dnipro on Wednesday.
KIEV, March 14 – President Petro Poroshenko has vetoed a bill on electronic tax declaration passed by the Ukrainian parliament but criticized by the European Union.
KIEV, March 14 – A decision to put Ukraine into the list of the states with which European Union cancels visa regime for short-term trips, should be backed both by European Parliament along with the qualified majority of the Council of EU, it means one, two or three EU member states won't be able to put a veto on the respective agreement.
KIEV, March 15 - Captured Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Shevchenko, facing 23 years in prison for alleged involvement in the death of two Russian journalists during 2014 fighting in Luhansk region, behaved rudely to her captors during her trial in southern Russia's Rostov-on-Don region.
KIEV, March 15 - The chances of Ukraine forming a new technocrat government to replace Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk faded on Tuesday after cross-party talks failed to produce a breakthrough, likely prolonging a months-long political crisis, Reuters reported.
WASHINGTON, March 15 - Russia’s announcement that it is withdrawing forces from Syria should not lead Washington to lift sanctions against Moscow over Ukraine, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told lawmakers Tuesday, citing recent reports of a “spike in ceasefire violations” in eastern Ukraine.
