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National news
- Newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy gave a stinging, sarcastic reply on Facebook late on April 27 to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to issue Russian passports to citizens of Ukraine in occupied Donbas.
- Officials in the Russian-occupied part of eastern Ukraine say the death toll from a coal mine explosion is up to 17.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 27 raised the possibility of meeting Ukraine’s president-elect in a sign Moscow might want to improve relations that soured after its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
- Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies have been hit by a wave of anonymous phone calls with fake terrorist threats of bombing in recent days, Ukraine’s SBU security service reported.
- Ukrainian businessman Pavel Klymets, the owner of the Olymp group of vodka-making companies and former member of fugitive ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions, was detained in Moscow on bribery charges.
- U.S. President Donald Trump claims “big” and “incredible” new allegations have emerged that Ukraine tried to influence the outcome of the 2016 election in favor of his rival, Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton.
- Ukrainians lack the words to properly express the trauma of Russia’s war on Ukraine, a historian and a poet argue at an event in London.
Russia’s war on Ukraine
- Russian-led forces in the Donbas continued their attacks even on Easter Day, with one Ukrainian serviceman wounded in a shelling attack, Ukraine’s military said.
- The OSCE said it had lost another observation drone after it experienced signal jamming while over a Russian-occupied part of the Donbas.
Business news
- For three years, U.S. startup Uber and its Ukrainian counterpart Uklon ruled the local taxi industry with their mobile apps. But recently a strong challenger has appeared: Estonian startup Bolt.
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