Here’s the latest political news from the Kyiv Post:
- Ukrainian launches campaign for more western sanctions against top Russians. In 2014, Anna Talimonchuk’s father was wounded during the Battle of Ilovaisk. In 2018, Talimonchuk launched the Sanctions 2020 initiative to increase sanctions in an effort to change the Kremlin’s political calculus, particularly on its war in eastern Ukraine.
- Zelenskiy fires 15 governors, proposes firing Prosecutor General Lutsenko. Not only governors became victims of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s group dismissal. Two deputy chiefs of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the heads of six regional SBU branches were sent packing, as well.
- Chesno: 13 members of Samopomich are among the most honest. The list includes 25 lawmakers who supported structural reforms. Their is also a dishonest list, featuring members of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
- Sadovyi’s Samopomich party reveals top candidates for parliament. The party’s list includes 106 candidates, while its top-10 features 6 women and 4 men.The party which came third in the 2014 parliamentary election, currently polls below 1 percent.
- Ihor Smeshko’s party presents candidates for parliament. The party led by Smeshko has many surprising names on its list – Refat Chubarov, head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People and Olena Sotnyk, a lawmaker from the Samopomich faction, secretary of the Verkhovna Rada committee on European integration.
- Most parties reveled their candidates for parliament, in the past couple of days – Sluga Narodu, Opposition Platform, European Solidarity, Batkivshchyna, Holos
Here’s the latest non-political news from the Kyiv Post:
- FlixBus expands in Ukraine, touting low-cost international travel. Regular prices from Kyiv range from €21 to Krakow, €44 to Prague, or €72 to Hanover. If you’re lucky, the company is currently offering special discount tickets between €5 and €15
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