- Transparency International condemned the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruling on Feb. 26 to strike down Article 368-2 of the Criminal Code, the provision criminalizing illicit enrichment. According to the international corruption-fighting organization, the ruling “greatly weakens the country’s anti-corruption efforts, undermines up to 65 open investigations and has a direct impact on four cases against high-ranking officials that were already before the courts.”
- A Ukrainian soldier was wounded in action on March 2 as routine low-intensity armed clashes continued in the war zone of Donbas.
- The Batkivschyna, a political party having 20 seats in the Verkhovna Rada and headed by presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, has received millions of hryvnyas of donations from people who appear to be fake donors, according to the investigations by two anti-graft journalism projects. Tymoshenko denied accusations of fraud.
- Several thousand members of the nationalist organization National Militia (Natsionalni Druzhyny) marched in downtown Kyiv to mark the first anniversary of its creation. The organization was created in 2018 “to assist law enforcement agencies in maintaining order in Ukrainian cities.”
- Russian security officials have detained the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula, Archbishop Klyment. The archbishop was detained when he was about to travel to the Russian city of Rostov to visit a Ukrainian political prisoner Pavlo Gryb, whose health had dangerously deteriorated in jail.
- On a lighter note, Kyiv Post welcomes its readers to test their knowledge of Ukraine’s geography. Take the quiz to find out whether you know the location of every oblast of Ukraine.
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