Daily Digest: Top news of Thursday, Aug. 9 - Aug. 09, 2018

Boryspil International Airport has paid a Hr 13 million fine to the state for abusing its monopoly of handling services, Yuriy Terentyev, the head of the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine, says.
Ukraine’s largest e-commerce firms Rozetka and EVO Group are to merge in order to develop an “ecosystem for local internet buyers and sellers,” the companies announced on Aug. 9.
Ukraine’s ombudswoman Liudmyla Denisova has asked Russian human rights commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova to transfer Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, who has been on hunger strike in a Russian penal colony for 88 days, to Moscow for treatment.
The Russian presidential administration has received a petition to pardon Sentsov from his mother, but there has yet been no response, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
A low harvest in Europe and Riyadh’s decision to cancel grain imports from Canada might give Ukraine a chance to export wheat to Saudi Arabia again this season, analysts say.
The former first deputy chairman of public joint-stock company Ukrgazvydobuvannia Oleksiy Tamrazov was arrested as he was attempting to give a large bribe, Prosecutor General Yuiy Lutsenko has said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has sent to militia-controlled territory in Donbas seven trucks with humanitarian aid, carrying more than 103.5 tonnes of construction materials, sand, hygiene supplies, and medicine.