Flight TK 459 Istanbul-Kyiv with the fourth batch of the CoronaVac vaccine produced by Chinese company Sinovac Biotech arrived at Boryspil International Airport on the evening of May 26. Read more here. The post Ukrinform: Ukraine receives 500,000 do...

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has set the official forex rate for May 27 at Hr 27.55 to the U.S. dollar, which made the country’s national currency weaker by nine kopiykas. Read more here. The post UNIAN: Hryvnia weakens to US dollar on Ma...

For Anna Dudich, nothing will ever be the same again. Her daughter, Sofia Sapega, was on board Ryanair Flight 4978 from Athens to Vilnius when the plane was forcibly diverted to the capital of Belarus. Read more here. The post BBC: Belarus – I&...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said May 27 that mandating coronavirus vaccinations would be “impractical and impossible” amid an ongoing debate on how to ramp up the country’s slow Covid-19 vaccine take-up. Read more here. The post The Moscow...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has welcomed the successful evacuation of 109 Ukrainians and citizens of other countries from the Gaza Strip, the press service of the head of state has reported. Read more here. The post Ukrinform: Zelensky wel...

The Command of Ukraine’s Armed Forces has reported nine violations of the ceasefire agreement committed by Russia-controlled armed groups in the Donbas warzone on May 26. Read more here. The post UNIAN: Ukraine records nine ceasefire violations...

Ukraine has registered 3,509 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on May 27. The total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic is 2.19 million. In the past 24 hours, 16,867 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 183 have died. Sinc...

The total number of coronavirus-related deaths has exceeded 50,000 in Ukraine, which remains among the most COVID-19 affected European countries, the health ministry data showed on May 27. Read more here. The post Reuters: Number of coronavirus-relat...

What we’re watching Thursday, May 27 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S.-Ukraine Business Council webinar with Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova. Register here. Thursday, May 27 at 8 p.m. Kyiv time: U.S. House of Representatives Com...

President of the European Council Charles Michel on Wednesday called the family of Roman Protasevich, a Belarusian journalist and activist detained in Minsk, to express solidarity to them on behalf of the European Union. “I just called Dmitry P...