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Highlights from the Kyiv Post print edition
- Find all the stories in our March 7 print edition here.
National news:
- Batkivshchyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko overtakes incumbent President Petro Poroshenko in the polls, but both are still trailing race leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Recent scandals seem to have hurt Poroshenko more than Tymoshenko.
- Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov is served with a notice of suspicion by Ukraine’s Specialized Anti-Corruption Office for giving false information to investigators. Earlier, the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine dropped another case against Trukhanov when the Constitutional Court ruled that Ukraine’s law on illicit enrichment was unconstitutional.
- Many important inroads against corruption have been made since 2014 by Ukrainian authorities, the authors of a report presented in the United States have said.
- Matthew Kupfer goes over the most important/most talked about stories in Ukraine in this week’s edition of the Kyiv Post Newsy Vlog.
Russia’s war on Ukraine:
- There has been a rare outbreak of peace in the war-torn Donbas: Ukrainian forces on March 10 reported no attacks on them by Russian-led forces for an entire day. Numerous ceasefires have been declared between the two sides, but few have held any more than a few days.
- In a television interview, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he expected Russia to release the Ukrainian sailors it had captured on Nov. 25 near the Kerch Strait after Ukraine’s presidential election is over. If there is a second round of the election, that might not be until May.
- The Kremlin is planning to do some major saber-rattling as the March 18 anniversary of its claim to have annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula approaches: there were reports that large scale military exercises have been scheduled to take place in Crimea and neighboring regions of Russia.
Business news:
- February was a cracking month for Ukraine’s exporters of fruits and nuts – they made a record $24.8 million in revenues, which is the highest figure ever recorded for the month.
- The Ukrainian government is bracing for the completion of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, which would likely end Russian gas transit through Ukraine and knock 4 percent off Ukraine’s GDP.
- Fitch has affirmed Ukraine’s long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating or IDR at “B-“ with a stable outlook.
- The EBA’s Customs Index, which tracks the ease of getting goods across Ukraine’s borders, remains unchanged, with hopes of progress not met by actual results.
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