- President Petro Poroshenko, who is seeking re-election, held a campaign rally at the NSC Olimpiyskiy stadium in Kyiv on April 14. Poroshenko wanted the event to be a debate with his competitor and presidential frontrunner Volodymyr Zelenskiy. However, Zelenskiy declined Poroshenko’s invitation and instead set a different date for the debate.
- A liberal group Luydi Vazhlyvi (Ukrainian for “People Matter”) held the Ukrainian Liberal Forum on April 13, announcing the start of a new liberal party.
- Poroshenko fired the scandalous deputy head of Foreign Intelligence Service Serhiy Semochko, who gained notoriety after journalists discovered in 2018 that his Russia-connected family grew vastly rich during his time in office.
- Presidential front-runner Volodymyr Zelenskiy received notices from the armed forces four times after Russian-led forces started the Donbas war in 2014. The notices require the person to show up at the recruiting station, which Zelenskiy supposedly didn’t do.
- An unknown man deliberately rammed the official car of the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Natalia Galibarenko on April 13. The car was parked near the Ukrainian embassy in central London.
- Ukrainian Cultural Center took fire in the early hours of April 13, in the city of Hamilton, 70 kilometers south of Toronto. The fire destroyed over 50 years of archives of local Ukrainian Canadian history.
- A new episode of the Kyiv Post Podcast: Who is Volodymyr Zelenskiy and what does he stand for?
- Top news of the week summed up in the Kyiv Post Newsy Vlog.
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