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The latest news:
- New poll: 71 percent ready to vote for Zelenskiy, 29 percent for Poroshenko in second round. More than 10 percent of those polled said they would not vote, and 14.8 percent who plan to vote in the run-off said they are yet to decide whom they would vote for.
- Drugs, aliens and Putin feature in presidential election ads as campaign takes nasty turn. Just 10 days before the election run-off on April 21, the presidential campaign is getting dirtier and dirtier.
- Deputy prime minister: Cabinet moving to safeguard NATO and Euro-Atlantic integration. Fearful of what a Volodymyr Zelenskiy presidency could mean for Ukraine and its constitutionally-enshrined course toward the European Union and NATO, current government ministers are moving to protect that integration process as best they can before a potential change in leadership later this year.
- Sobolev and Semenchenko leave Samopomich, more may follow. The collapse of the Samopomich Party as a national political force in Ukraine continues, with two big names saying they have left the party.
- Poroshenko appoints judges to anti-corruption court. “Today 38 new judges are assuming their duties,” Poroshenko said. “They have the tools to be successful: judicial reform has given them independence from the legislative and executive branches, and the president.”
- Ukrainians declare two times more additional earnings in Q1 compared to last year. Ukrainians declared Hr 24 billion ($900 million) in supplementary earnings for the first three months of 2019 – 97 percent more than for the same period of last year, the State Fiscal Service, announced on April 11.
- Ukraine is making it easier to pay with smartphones and tablets. Ukrainians can already pay for a range of things, including a ride on the Kyiv metro, with a wave of a smartphone or tablet through the Apple Pay or Google Pay systems. Now those two systems are to be joined by eight new local cashless software programs, including one called E-Receipt
- Vox Populi with Illia Ponomarenko: Will Ukraine’s security challenges change after election?
- Vox Populi with Vyacheslav Hnatyuk: Why did you come to Kyiv Post Employment Fair?
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