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– On 1 September, Ukraine’s Ivan Bohun Kyiv Military Lyceum marked its first day of studies, welcoming female cadets for the first time since it was founded. The school now accepts girls from the [...]

– On May 15th, Ukraine responded to Moscow’s ban on the sale and transportation of Ukrainian produce by introducing economic sanctions on certain Russian goods. The list of sanctioned goods [...]

– On April 7th, governor of Kherson Oblast Andriy Hordeyev resigned following allegations that he had been involved in the murder of anti-corruption activist Kateryna Handziuk. Handziuk’s [...]

– Andriy Kobolyev, the CEO of Ukraine’s oil monopoly Naftogaz, announced on March 1st that the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague had ordered Russia to compensate the company for the [...]

– According to the 2019 Freedom in the World Index, released on February 4th, Ukraine remains partly free. The country lost two points from the previous year because of the rising number of [...]

– On January 1st, a Ukrainian soldier was killed, despite the ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. The Ukrainian military regularly reports casualties in attacks by Russian-led troops in [...]

– December in Ukraine was dominated by the developments following Russia’s November 25th attack on and seizure of Ukrainian navy ships in the Azov Sea that led to the capture of 24 [...]

– On November 3rd, Ukraine made another step to the establishment of a unified local Orthodox Church when President Poroshenko signed an agreement on cooperation with the Ecumenical [...]

– On October 1st, three children were killed in a landmine explosion near the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine. Earlier this year, the UN stated that two million Ukrainians were affected by [...]

– On September 2nd, Ukrainian-Italian movie Easy (2017) received the Kinéo Movie Diamond Award at the Venice Film Festival for Best First Feature, while another Ukrainian film, Myth (2018), [...]