You're reading: Daily Digest: Top news of Monday, Jan. 28
  • Music star Svyatoslav Vakarchuk has finally announced that he won’t be running for president of Ukraine in the March 31 election, ending months of speculation and rumors.
  • The United States believes that there is no military solution to end Russia’s war on Ukraine in the Donbas, but hopes Russia will finally fulfill the commitments it made in Minsk nearly four years ago, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch has said on Jan. 28.
  • Divisions sharpen inside Ukraine’s far-right camp as it fails to unite around a single presidential candidate, with National Corps refusing to support Svoboda’s candidate Ruslan Koshulynskyi.
  • The Ukrainian Armed Forces has finished creating a new reserve tank brigade as part of the army’s reserve troops corps.
  • 2018 Norwegian-Ukrainian Business Forum took place in Oslo on Jan. 28. After appearing at the forum, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said that she believes “Ukraine is moving forward.” She said the evidence of progress is the willingness of three Norwegian energy firms to invest in wind, solar and hydropower projects in Ukraine. “It testifies to the fact that change made in Ukraine lead to investments,” she said.
  • Local and regional gas distributors now owe almost Hr 60 billion (about $2.2 billion) to Naftogaz of Ukraine, the state oil and gas company, its CEO Andriy Kobolyev wrote on his Facebook page on Jan. 28.
  • Viktor Gandziuk, the father of murdered whistleblower Kateryna Gandziuk, has accused three top officials in Kherson Oblast of covering up for the murderers of his daughter. He also named two political parties that he said the murderers are involved with.
  • 14 million Ukrainians spent $160 million on video games and gaming hardware in 2018, according to a research firm Newzoo.
  • Ukrainian leaders joined the commemorations on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but some raised the issue of Israel not recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide of Ukrainians.

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