You're reading: Daily Digest: Top news of Tuesday, Sept. 25
  •  According to a study published on Sept. 25, Ukrainians say they encounter bribery even more frequently in 2018 than they did in 2015. According to the study conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, Ukrainians say corruption is one of the country’s biggest problems and most prevalent in the nation’s judiciary and parliament.
  • A new research published on Sept. 24 reports that pervasive intolerance of Roma people among Ukrainians, paired with bureaucracy, leave many Roma undocumented and therefore stripped of basic access to education and healthcare. That leads to a cycle of poverty and discrimination continuing from generation to generation.
  •  Ukraine will make its decision on raising gas prices by Sept. 27 at the latest, the executive director of state-owned gas monopoly Naftogaz Yuriy Vitrenko said.
  • Belarusian officials say they will not send their peacekeepers to Donbas, eastern Ukraine, as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission.
  • Ukraine’s Ambassador to Switzerland Artem Rybchenko has called on Swiss parliamentarians to take a more active position regarding the release of Ukrainian political prisoners, according to the embassy’s press service.
  • Three French helicopters will be delivered from the Airbus Helicopters company to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service and one more to Ukraine’s National Guard. The helicopters will be delivered before the end of 2018, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.
  • Two Ukrainian servicemen have been injured during a Molot mortar rupture, but there is no threat to their lives, according to the press service of Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation headquarters.
  • Germany might finance the construction of the Mariupol-Zaporizhia highway, Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan wrote on his Facebook page. If so, he says it will be the first real highway in Ukraine built according to all EU requirements.
  • Ukraine ranked 64th in a social progress ranking among 146 countries, according to the results of the 2018 Social Progress Index.
  • The Council of Paris has unanimously granted the title of honorary citizen to Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov. Sentsov is currently imprisoned in Russia after he was arrested in Crimea in May 2014, shortly after the annexation of the peninsula by Russia.