- Paul Manafort’s trial went into its 6th day on Aug. 7, with his former business partner Rick Gates taking the stand against his former boss. Gates named five Ukrainian politicians and oligarchs – Serhiy Lyovochkin, Rinat Akhmetov, Serhiy Tigipko, Andriy Klyuev, and Borys Kolesnikov – as funding the pair’s work for the Party of Regions.
- Odesa Oblast police have launched an investigation into alleged cases of child abuse in a Svitanok orphanage. The case followed a report by Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudswoman Lyudmila Denisova on child abuse at an orphanage in the town of Rozhyshche, Volyn Oblast. While Svitanok management do not comment, the principal of Rozhyshche orphanage denies all the accusations saying that the orphans were “difficult kids, who frequently attack the orphanage staff.”
- Around 4,500 troops and 250 military vehicles will parade through the center of Kyiv on Ukraine’s Independence Day on Aug. 24 according to the country’s defense minister Stepan Poltorak.
- Over the last three weeks, the Ukrainian hryvnia has lost nearly four percent of its value against the dollar from Hr 26.23 on July 16 to Hr 27.13 on Aug. 7.
- Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court has scheduled for Aug. 10 a jury trial of the criminal case against Yaroslav Tarasenko and Oleksandr Los in the assassination of a former member of Russia’s Duma Dmitriy Voronenkov, who was gunned down in Kyiv on March 23, 2017.
- Over 200 Ukrainian sailors are now held in custody in Greece and Italy, says State Secretary for Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry Andriy Zayets.
- According to the National Investment Council, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will provide 149 million euros loan to NPC Ukrenergo. The funds will be used to replace the power equipment, to reconstruct and automatize the substations.
- Norwegian NBT intends to build about 70 wind farms in Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast. After commissioning, the wind farm complex will be able to supply electricity to the NPC Ukrenergo power system, providing electricity for at least 50,000 households. The total amount of foreign investments in the first phase of the project will be over 370 million euros.
- T.B.Fruit, one of Ukraine’s largest processors of fruits and berries, to start the construction of its third processing plant in Poland with an estimated cost exceeding 40 million euros.
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