- The slow pace of reforms in key economic directions threatens Ukraine with default and a currency crisis, which could result in a political crisis ahead of the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019, according to economists from VoxUkraine Project and the Kyiv School of Economics.
- Monitoring officials say clashes between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have escalated in recent days to some of the fiercest fighting of 2018.
- The Ukrainian Armed Forces have destroyed an enemy position near the village of Troyitske in the Svitlodarsk bulge, a Ukrainian civil volunteer and activist reports.
- Ukraine has filed a claim at the International Tribunal against the illegal construction of the Kerch Strait bridge between Russia Federation and the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory of Crimea.
- The major risks facing fans coming to Kyiv for the final of the UEFA Champions League on May 26 are terrorism, pick-pockets, and scuffles between fans, according to Kyiv police.
- Thirty-one children in a school in Kharkiv were sickened by an unidentified gas, with 15 of them having to go to hospital, emergency workers reported on May 22. This is the third such incident in Ukraine in recent days.
- With the Czech Republic facing labor shortages, the country’s Labor and Social Affairs Ministry is preparing a program to entice more Ukrainians’ to work in the Central European state.
- The moratorium on the sale of the agricultural land in Ukraine is violation of its citizens’ human rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.
- Poultry producer Myronivsky Hliboproduct plans to invest over $250 million in 2018 in the launch of the second line at the Vinnytsia poultry farm, a biogas complex in Vinnytsia and the modernization of existing production facilities, the company has announced.
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