You're reading: Daily Digest: Top news of the weekend of May 18-19
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a star comedian and president-elect of Ukraine, will be sworn in as the country’s 6th president on May 20. Here’s everything we know about how it will happen.
  • U.S. Embassy in Ukraine announced the end of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s diplomatic mission in Kyiv.
  • Paul Grod, who was elected president of the Ukrainian World Congress in November, told the Kyiv Post what Ukrainian diaspora expects from on the presidency of Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
  • In his first interview since returning to Ukraine, the notorious oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky shares some of his plans and comments on the FBI investigation of him.
  • A man blew up a hand grenade inside a branch of PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest commercial bank, killing himself and injuring six people.
  • The outgoing President Petro Poroshenko is rebranding his party for the parliamentary election, currently scheduled for October.
  • Check out the latest additions to our “Ukrainian Voices From Abroad” section: Ukrainians living abroad giving advice to the new president of Ukraine.

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