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Highlights from the Kyiv Post print edition
- Find all the stories in our March 7 print edition here.
Latest news:
- In the presidential race, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has widened his lead, and is now at 23.1 percent. Meanwhile, second-place Yulia Tymoshenko drops to 14 percent, and incumbent President Petro Poroshenko sags to 12.4 percent, according to the latest Sofia Social Research Center poll.
- A senior consultant with the information policy department at the Presidential Administration of Ukraine was assaulted and murdered in Kyiv.
- NATO has again confirmed the future membership prospects for Ukraine in the alliance, noting strengthened political and practical support for Kyiv since Russa’s invasion and occupation of Crimea and the launch of its war on Ukraine in the Donbas.
- Two detectives of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine mentioned in an investigation by journalists from Bihus.info into corruption at the agency have been suspended pending an internal investigation.
- In Ukraine, foreign fathers say that their former partners have prevented them from being part of their children’s lives, according to lawyers who have represented them in such disputes. The fathers find themselves tangled up years of court hearings.
- Ukrainian Premier League runner-up Dynamo Kyiv crashed out of the Europa League, the continent’s second-tier football tournament, after taking a 5:0 beating by English soccer club Chelsea.
Russia’s war on Ukraine:
- Russia-led forces mounted two attacks on Ukrainian troops in the Donbas in the past day, with two soldiers wounded in action, the press center of the Joint Forces Operation said.
- Warsaw has urged Moscow to release Ukrainian sailors imprisoned in Russia, return Ukrainian vessels and guarantee freedom of navigation in the Kerch Strait.
- Ukrainian Army officer Anatoly Shtefan posts on Facebook another video showing a strike by Ukraine’s Joint Forces on positions of Russia-supported militants in Donbas.
Business news:
- Andriy Kobolyev, the head of Ukraine’s state-owned oil and gas monopoly Naftogaz, might keep his current position after all as the enterprise’s supervisory board unanimously proposed on March 12 to renew his contract at least for one more year.
- Ukraine has issued $350 million in Eurobonds with a yield of 9.75 percent, due in 2028, according to a statement by the Finance Ministry of Ukraine
- Ukraine’s aviation regulator has suspended all flights of Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 9 aircraft over the country’s territory after a deadly plane crash in Ethiopia.
- Ukraine is once more becoming a place of interest to many potential investors, agree attendees at meetings in Washington D.C. organized by the U.S. Ukraine Business Council.
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