Like a giant elephant trunk, a huge hose sweeps above the hold of a ship in Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta, spilling tons of corn into the vessel before it sets sail. Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s seaports has forced the cou...

Budget financing remains active The Ministry of Finance raised more than Hr 7bn ($242m) through military bonds on May 4, mainly through UAH-denominated bonds. But demand for FX-denominated bonds was also strong. Yesterday, the largest demand was for ...

A Russian-announced ceasefire was due to begin Thursday at the besieged steel plant in the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol, to allow civilians to flee even as its defenders vowed to fight to the end. The three-day halt in Russia’s attack ...

A senior Kyiv official on Thursday, May 5, claimed defenders have pushed Russian Federation (RF) forces out of the effective artillery range of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and for more than two months a preferred target for Kremlin ...

Editor’s note: The following is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s nightly address to the nation as it appears in the English language on the presidential website:  Ukrainians! Today I will start with a story about one person. About Oleksa...

Combined Ukrainian forces at the last bastion of defense in the besieged Donetsk regional city of Mariupol say their situation remains “difficult.” Russian forces assaulting the city have penetrated the tunnel network of the Azovstal steel plant ...

– ‘Heavy fighting’ at Azovstal – The mayor of the destroyed Ukrainian city of Mariupol says that contact has been lost with Ukrainian forces holed up in the Azovstal steel plant amid “heavy fighting” with Russian t...

Lyubov Panchenko, Ukrainian artist, fashion designer, sixties dissident Vasyl Stus Prize laureate passed away on April 30. She was 84. Her death was announced by the mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, on Facebook. “She was one of the patriots of the...

The European Union’s executive unveiled Wednesday plans for a gradual ban on Russian oil imports as part of a raft of new sanctions to punish Moscow for invading Ukraine. The European Commission also proposed slapping sanctions on Russia’...

Officials in the Black Sea resort city Odesa are grappling with a possible launch of the region’s economically-critical summer resort season, in the face of Russian Federation (RF) missiles, and sea mines but probably not amphibious assault. A majo...