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Highlights from the Kyiv Post print edition
- Find all the stories in our March 7 print edition here.
Latest news:
- Serhiy Savchuk, for the past five years the head Ukraine’s state energy efficiency agency, says that 2019 could be a revolutionary year for Ukraine’s renewable energy industry
- Dirty tricks abound as the race for the presidency heats up, with incumbent President Petro Poroshenko and Batkivshchyna Patry leader Yulia Tymoshenko slinging mud as they vie for a spot in the second round vote with the leader of the pack, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
- The European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday votes to recommend the appointment of an EU special representative for Ukraine. The special envoy will deal mainly with the subjects of Crimea and the Donbas.
- Russia bullies Google into falsifying map of Ukraine, making Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory of Crimea appear to be part of Russia.
- The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Crimea Annexation Non-recognition Act by an overwhelming majority.
- The Kyiv-based Book Arsenal Festival is declared the best literary festival at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards.
Russia’s war on Ukraine:
- Two Ukrainian servicemen were killed in a grenade explosion in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) zone in Donbas, the Ukrainska Pravda news website reported. The incident is thought to have been caused by careless handling of the device.
- Lefortovo prison in Moscow has given Ukraine permission to visit the 24 Ukrainian prisoners of war Russia is holding there, according to Kateryna Zelenko, the spokesperson of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
- Russian-led forces mounted three attacks on Ukrainian soldiers in the Donbas in the previous 24 hours, the Ukrainian military reported early on March 13.
Business news:
- The British chairman of the executive board of oil company Ukrnafta, Mark Rollins, is expected to leave his position on April 30, 2019 according to a post on the company’s website.
- Russia’s Gazprom Export informs Bulgarian officials about plans to stop gas transit supplies via the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline from Ukraine to Turkey as of January 2020.
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