You're reading: Daily Digest: Top news of Thursday, Nov. 1
  • The German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Kyiv on Nov. 1. Here’s the summary of her visit.
  • Merkel said she won’t seek re-election as chancellor or run for any political office after her term ends in 2021. We look at potential successors and what this change means for Ukraine.
  • Russia has imposed sanctions on Ukrainians. The list includes 322 sanctioned individuals and 68 companies. Russia said it was a response to Ukraine’s “hostile behavior.”
  • Wounded Ukrainian veterans ran the U.S. Marine Corps marathon in Washington, D.C. Learn their inspiring stories in our special report from the event.
  • Nationwide gasoline chain WOG Group owes billionaire fugitive oligarch Dmytro Firtash’s Group DF more than $460 million, the Economichna Pravda website reported on Nov. 1. Firtash invested $200 million in the chain from 2011 until 2015, according to the documents obtained by the website.

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