As in most of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic did not spare Ukraine in 2020 and even reached a Chilean research center in Antarctica in December. In March, the same month that Ukraine recorded its first case of the coronavirus that originated in China in 2019, authorities in Kyiv imposed strict restrictive measures to stave off the spread of the highly transmissible disease.
The Ukrainian Weekly: 2020 – A pandemic, as war in the east continues
A Ukrainian soldier fires at a military drone during night combat against Russia-backed separatists on the front line near Novoluhansk in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Nov. 14, 2019.
