The Ministry of Finance sold only two bills on Feb. 15 and raised just a mere Hr 66m. Demand was a little higher, but the Ministry decided not to raise the cut-off rate on the 11-month paper. For five-month bills, all demand was at a rate of 11.6%, w...

Russia could drag out the Ukraine crisis for “months” in a challenge to western unity, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Thursday, Feb 13, ahead of a visit to Kyiv. Truss warned of “severe economic costs for Russia” if ...

Ukraine’s leader vowed on Feb. 16  that his country would stand tall against any invasion, as NATO warned it could see no sign that Russia is withdrawing its forces, as it says it is. President Volodymyr Zelensky watched troops training with s...

Oleksandr Abramenko has won the silver medal in the men’s ski aerials at the Beijing Olympics. This is Ukraine’s first medal at the Beijing Olympics and comes on the Day of Unity, which is being celebrated for the first time today.  In t...

National Eurovision winner Alina Pash has decided not to take part in the May finals of the Eurovision Song Contest. She confirmed the news on her Instagram page after scandals surrounding her visits to Russian-occupied Crimea. “I am a singer, ...

According to a survey undertaken by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology between Feb. 5-13, a quarter of respondents (25%) would vote for current President Volodymyr Zelensky and 22% would favour his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, if an elec...

Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio visited Kyiv on Feb. 15 to hold talks with Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba ahead of planned talks in Moscow with Sergey Lavrov on Feb. 16.  Di Maio and Kuleba discussed the security situation aro...

With President Zelensky calling for a National Day of Unity on Feb. 16, and for business leaders and politicians to demonstrate their support for Ukraine, the country’s leading investor, Donetsk-born, Rinat Akhmetov, returned to Ukraine after a vis...

The situation on Ukraine’s borders remained stable on the morning of Feb. 16 and nothing unexpected was happening, Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said appearing on a special telethon dedicated to the Day of Unity. Reznikov said that Ukraine�...

The Kremlin on Feb. 16 denied responsibility for a cyberattack on Ukraine a day earlier that hit websites at the country’s defense ministry and armed forces as well as two state banks. Kyiv had suggested the attack came from Russia as fears per...