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Highlights from the Kyiv Post print edition
- Find all the stories in our March 7 print edition here.
Latest news:
- Colonel Serhiy Kryvonos, the first deputy commander of Ukrainian Special Operations Forces, has been appointed by President Petro Poroshenko as deputy secretary at the National Security and Defense Council.
- Almost every law enforcement agency in Ukraine helped cover up corruption in state defense conglomerate UkrOboronProm, according to a new investigative journalist report by Bihus.info aired on March 11.
- An Austrian journalist banned from entering Ukraine has said he and his employer, Austrian public broadcaster ORF, will “use all possible legal means to fight the situation.”
- Bishop Borys Gudziak, president of the Catholic University in Lviv, visits Washington D.C. ahead of taking up his post as Metropolitan-Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania.
- The Russian Foreign Ministry said the Kremlin would terminate the friendship treaty between Russia and Ukraine on April 1, 2019. The move comes five years after Russia launched its undeclared war of aggression on Ukraine in the Donbas in 2014. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a law on terminating the treaty on Dec. 10, 2018.
- Mines in the government-controlled part of the Donbas are at risk of flooding because mines in the Russian-occupied areas, to which they are connected by safety corridors for emergency evacuations, are not being properly maintained. Flooding and resulting groundwater contamination could put the entire region’s water supply at risk, openDemocracy reports.
- Matthew Kupfer goes over the most important/most talked about stories in Ukraine in this week’s edition of the Kyiv Post Newsy Vlog.
Russia’s war on Ukraine:
- Russia’s covert war on Ukraine in the Donbas killed 55 civilians and wounded 224 in 2018, according to the United Nations. However, that’s 50 percent down on the previous year and the lowest annual total since the war began in 2014.
- Russian-led forces launched just one attack in the previous 24 hour period, Ukraine’s military reported early on March 12 – an attack with small arms near Avdiyivka in Donetsk Oblast. No Ukrainian casualties were reported.
- Russia should grant the protections required by international law to the 24 Ukrainian naval servicemen it captured after attacking their vessels on Nov. 25 near the Kerch Strait, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine Fiona Frazer said.
Business news:
- Ocean Plaza’s former developer Vasyl Khmelnytsky said that he may buy back the Kyiv shopping center from Moscow-based company TPS Real Estate.
- AllRight.io, an e-learning startup with Ukrainian and Russian roots, has just secured $1.5 million in a funding round led by Buran Venture Capital.
- The western Ukrainian city of Lviv is to introduce a tourist tax from April 1. Tourists will have to pay a surcharge on their accommodation bills of between $0.30 to $0.80 per night, depending on the cost of accommodation.
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