- It’s good to be Yanukovych. A Kyiv court lifted the arrest of the bank accounts used in an alleged money laundering scheme linked to ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s son. The scheme allegedly saw hundreds of millions stolen – and yet, the investigation has been unsuccessful.
- Fatal car crash. Eight people were killed and 15 more injured in a car crash in Kryviy Rih early on April 17. Many of the victims were employees of ArselorMittal steel mill going to work.
- This airline didn’t take off. Turkish airline Atlasglobal has announced it will soon stop regular flights from three Ukrainian cities to Istanbul, three years after it started flying from Ukraine.
- Independent Ukrainian church seeks recognition. President Petro Poroshenko will ask the Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, to finally recognize the independent Ukrainian church. The absence of recognition has been a major cause for concern for Ukrainian parishioners of the church since it broke away from the Russian Patriarchate in 1992.
- The Ukrainian army is 29th strongest in the world. It ranks between the armies of Greece and the Czech Republic, according to the Global Firepower.
- Kolomoisky blasts Poroshenko: “He’ll never be president again.” The most vocal and scandalous of the Ukrainian oligarchs, Ihor Kolomoisky spoke on the upcoming 2019 presidential election. He said he would support “any decent candidate except for Poroshenko” who, in his words, “will never be president again.” He debunked the rumor that he already pledged his support to Poroshenko’s main rival, Yulia Tymoshenko.
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