Couriers from the Glovo and Uber Eats food delivery services get ready to make a delivery at Lva Tolstoho Square in Kyiv on Feb. 13, 2019.
Ukraine expects to receive the first tranche of new IMF aid within the next two weeks, according to the Presidential Office. However, the exact size of the aid package is still under discussion, Yulia Kovaliv told Reuters. The Ukrainian government has previous said it expects to receive $5 billion. Earlier, on May 7, the International Monetary Fund announced that it had reoriented negotiations with Ukraine from a larger, longer-term program to an 18-month stand-by arrangement intended to blunt the effects of the coronavirus crisis.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has extended a ban on Russian social media sites, according to a decree on the site of the Presidential Office. In May 2017, Ukraine blocked Russian social media sites VKontakte and Odnoklassniki and other popular Russian sites like Mail.ru and Yandex on the territory of Ukraine. Despite the ban, the sites have continued to be popular in Ukraine, and people use virtual private networks (VPNs) to access them.
