Ukraine What’s the verdict on Ukraine's Zelenskyy's first year in office? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has had to manage a number of international crises in his first year in office. How did he get on? 20/05/2020
View In the fight against Russian influence in Ukraine, language matters. It’s Kyiv, not Kiev ǀ View Finding justice for Ukrainians, including my own family, starts with resisting Russia’s propaganda and promoting the Ukrainian language. It starts with spelling Ukraine’s capital as Kyiv. 19/05/2020
Ukraine Dozens of newborn babies are stranded in Kyiv due to lockdown Over 100 babies have yet to see their adoptive parents for the first time. Travel restrictions in Ukraine prevent most foreign parents from entering the country. 16/05/2020
Ukraine Lean times during lockdown in cash-strapped Ukrainian zoo High-quality beef has been partially replaced by other meats and broccoli swapped for cheaper cabbage. 09/05/2020
Ukraine Coronavirus compounds problems for domestic violence victims An increasing number of women and children in Ukraine are experiencing domestic violence during the quarantine. 03/05/2020
View Amazon’s ambivalence is helping support for Russian forces and their proxies in Ukraine ǀ View While Russia is waging an illegal invasion into Ukraine, Amazon is profiting from the symbols of that conflict, such as the banners that represent Russian proxy forces. 24/04/2020
Ukraine Amid coronavirus lockdown, Ukrainians start to feel the pinch “The crisis will, of course, have a massive effect on people living in Ukraine. The consequences are completely different from what we will see in a country such as Denmark.” 15/04/2020
Ukraine Ukraine: Forest fires in Chernobyl zone 'under control', officials say Massive fires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been contained, Ukraine authorities say, after activists claimed they were dangerously close to the nuclear plant. 14/04/2020
Ukraine Ukraine: Village evacuated as forest fires burn on in Chernobyl region Ukraine police moved villagers from their homes as firefighters continued to battle wildfires that broke out last weekend. 10/04/2020
Ukraine Forest fires in Chernobyl exclusion zone bring hike in radiation Inspectors said radiation levels were substantially higher than normal as two fires blazed in the largely unpopulated exclusion zone around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. 06/04/2020
Ukraine Ukraine lifts ban on sale of farmland in bid to receive IMF funds Ukraine's parliament passed legislation to allow people to sell farmland in a bid to receive grant money from the International Monetary Fund. 31/03/2020
Ukraine As Ukraine shuts down, its citizens come to terms with coronavirus The long shadow of the Soviet Union and mistrust of politicians means some Ukrainians are sceptical about the coronavirus outbreak - but one expert says that will soon change 19/03/2020
Ukraine Coronavirus: Medical mask resellers targeted by armed gang in Ukraine The men intercepted meetings between buyers and sellers of masks, stealing as many as 100,000. 17/03/2020
Ukraine 'We need new brains': MPs vote to oust Ukraine's prime minister Denys Shmygal is Ukraine's new prime minister after MPs voted to accept the resignation of Oleksiy Honcharuk. 04/03/2020
Ukraine Ukraine: Zelensky reforms stir concerns of centralising power The Ukrainian opposition is concerned about new reforms in the country. They fear the president and his party are centralising power, which could be dangerous in the long run. Experts also criticise some steps by the government but say previous governments acted similarly. 27/02/2020
Ukraine Ukrainians protest over having coronavirus evacuees in their region Some people protested against Ukrainian nationals being kept in isolation in the central Poltava region over fear the novel coronavirus could spread. 21/02/2020
Ukraine Soldier killed as violence flares-up in eastern Ukraine Ukraine's president called it a cynical move by pro-Russian separatists so that the peace process would fail. 18/02/2020
Ukraine Leaked audio shows Iran instantly knew it had downed Ukrainian plane Ukrainian and Iranian authorities have said the recording between an Iranian pilot and air traffic controller is authentic. 04/02/2020
no comment Pripyat - Chernobyl's ghost town for tourists - marks golden jubilee Pripyat in Ukraine would have been celebrating its 50th birthday on February 4. Today, new eyes are looking at it through the HBO series "Chernobyl". 03/02/2020
Ukraine Watch: Ukraine holds ceremony for plane crash victims 11 of the 176 people killed when Flight PS752 was shot down outside Tehran were Ukrainian. 19/01/2020
Ukraine Ukraine's president rejects resignation of his prime minister PM Oleksiy Honcharuk announced he was going to quit earlier on Friday after being caught on tape criticising Zelenskyi and saying he knew nothing about the economy. But Zelenskyi has rejected the resignation. 17/01/2020
no comment Ukraine airline workers pay tribute to crew killed in Iran crash Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) staff paid tribute to their colleagues who died when one of the airline's planes crashed in Iran. 09/01/2020
Ukraine Watch: Ukrainian nationalists hold torchlit parade in Kyiv It's to honour World War II anti-Soviet leader Stepan Bandera 01/01/2020
Ukraine Pro-Russia separatists swap prisoners with Ukraine The swap is part of a deal brokered earlier this month that aims to end the five-year conflict in eastern Ukraine. 28/12/2019
Ukraine Putin opens huge Russia-Crimea rail bridge Putin congratulated construction workers, saying the bridge has "proven Russia's ability to carry out large-scale infrastructure projects." 23/12/2019
Aid Zone Elderly suffer as Ukraine conflict drives away health workers When fighting broke out in April 2014, many people including health professionals fled the Luhansk and Donetsk Donbas regions. Those left behind were mainly elderly residents. 19/12/2019
