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REUTERS Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has outlined possible deadlines for lifting the quarantine restrictions imposed in the country over the coronavirus. “How long should we be cooped up indoors? [People] are running out of money, businesses are crumbling… How…

Photo from UNIAN Coordinator of a group of lawyers working for 24 Ukrainian sailors Nikolay Polozov says Russia has decided to suspend prisoner swap talks with Ukraine on Ukrainians illegally imprisoned in Russian territory and occupied Crimea. Read alsoNext prisoner…

REUTERS Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has expressed confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no other choice but to leave Donbas and Crimea alone. His comments came during an online discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council (USA) on repelling…

Photo from UNIAN U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper spoke by phone on April 8 with Ukrainian Minister of Defense Andriy Taran to strengthen the strategic partnership between the United States and Ukraine and exchange perspectives on the…

president.gov.ua Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko has said President Volodymyr Zelensky has tested for the novel coronavirus. Speaking in an interview with the Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper, Tymoshenko explained that all those in…

REUTERS Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, has declared that in the near future, the Verkhovna Rada would hold a meeting to pass bills required to start a new cooperation program with the International Monetary Fund. Yermak’s…

REUTERS Parties to the Donbas settlement negotiations within the framework of the Trilateral Contact Group on Wednesday, April 8, reached a principled agreement on the mutual release of held persons, according to the press service of the Ukrainian President’s Office.…

Photo from UNIAN Experts believe the appointment of Iryna Venediktova as Prosecutor General will affect the future of Ukraine. “Unfortunately, all the four events whose impact on the future of Ukraine we asked to evaluate are rather negative in nature.…

REUTERS The Cabinet of Ministers may be entitled to bar Ukrainian citizens from crossing out of Ukraine amid quarantine. That’s according to Bill “On Amending Certain Laws of Ukraine regarding the Protection of the Population from the Spread of Infectious…

REUTERS Authorities are considering a phased mitigation of quarantine, which is expected to start as early as April 14, according to draft resolution of the National Security and Defense Council, Sonya Koshkina, editor-in-chief at LB.ua, reports. According to this plan,…