- Activist Kateryna Gandziuk died in hospital in Kyiv, three months after an unknown man attacked her with acid. Gandziuk had been the symbol of a protest movement against the lack of investigation into the attacks on activists.
- A new European Parliament will be elected in May. Here’s why the upcoming election is important for Ukraine.
- Authorities detained a fugitive former Crimean judge suspected of high treason. He allegedly encouraged other judges in Crimea to cooperate with Russia during its invasion of the peninsula in 2014.
- Yulia Tymoshenko, the leading presidential candidate and ex-prime minister, offered several of her competitors in the presidential race to join forces after the March 2019 election. They showed no interest.
- President Petro Poroshenko visited Turkey this weekend, where he opened a Ukrainian consulate in the region of Antalya and signed a cooperation agreement with Patriarch Bartholomew, the head of the Orthodox church. The text of the agreement is yet to be published.
- We sat down with the multimillionaire Vasyl Khmelnytsky to talk about his business ventures and controversial political past.
- Foreigners in Ukraine find it hard to use Ukrainian banks. Here are the main problems they run into.
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