Ukrainian skater Ivan Shmuratko has been forced to withdraw from the team figure skating competition that starts tomorrow at the Beijing Winter Olympics, after testing positive for Covid. In an exclusive interview with the National Olympic Committee ...

The operational opening of the American University Kyiv (AUK) was announced at a press lunch in Kyiv on Feb. 3. AUK, a private university, is partnering with Arizona State University (ASU), one of the largest universities in the U.S., with more than ...

Up to 2 million people living along the front line in eastern Ukraine risk displacement if the festering conflict spirals, the Norwegian Refugee Council warned on Thursday, as tensions soar over Russia’s military buildup. “The lives and s...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan landed in Kyiv Thursday in an effort to mediate the crisis with Russia, as EU leaders stepped up outreach to the Kremlin to defuse fears Moscow could invade Ukraine. The diplomatic offensive came as Russia accus...

Russia has condemned a decision made on Feb. 2 by the US to send extra troops to support its allies in Europe amid continuing fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.  Moscow called it a “destructive” step which heightened tension and red...

Ukraine recorded a total of 39,620 new daily Covid cases on February 2. The figure is a big rise on the previous day and a new record since the pandemic began in spring 2020, the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported. A total of 4,136 people were hospit...

Borrowings at two-year low Yesterday, the primary auction set a two-year record to the downside for the amount of funds raised. Even during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the MOF was able to borrow more. Previously, the lowest amounts raise...

The United States told the families of its government employees in Belarus to leave the country, the State Department said Monday, as fears grow of a Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The order came hours after Washington and Moscow clashed ov...

The Pentagon announced on Feb. 2 that it would deploy 3,000 troops to Romania and Poland within days in response to Russia’s unwillingness to de-escalate its vast military build-up on Ukraine’s eastern border. The 3,000 troops to be deployed are ...

A senior Russian official at the United Nations on Wednesday slammed British diplomacy, just hours before Boris Johnson speaks to Vladimir Putin to try to defuse the Ukraine crisis. “There is always room for diplomacy, but frankly, we don̵...