What we’re watching
- Thursday, April 22 at 5 p.m. Kyiv time: US-Ukraine Business Council — Development of extractive industries in Ukraine. Register here.
Kremlin tracker
- Enemy At The Gate
- Will Ukraine be able to survive a Russian attack
- Biden’s sanctions ‘last warning’ for Kremlin
- Kyiv authorities release map of bomb shelters in case of Russian invasion
- Zelensky meets with Macron, Merkel to discuss Russian threats
- Reuters: Ukraine pushes for four-way talks including Russia to restore ceasefire in east
- Merkel, Macron, Zelensky urge Russia to withdraw troops from the border with Ukraine
- Zelensky’s interview with La Repubblica in Italy
- Zelensky’s interview with Le Figaro newspaper in France
- UNIAN: Kuleba says Western partners to arm Ukraine in case of Russia’s further invasion
- New York Times: In Russia, a military buildup that can’t be missed
- New York Times: Sanctions on Russian debt are called a ‘first salvo’ that sends a message
- Al Jazeera: Ukraine may seek nuclear weapons if left out of NATO
- Reuters: No knockout, but new US sanctions add to Russia’s ‘slow destruction’
Other news
- Big Restoration project paves the way to heritage awareness
- ‘Everything is wrong’ at state Ukrzaliznytsia rail monopoly
- Dragon Capital buys Unex Bank from pro-Russian oligarch Novinsk
- Channel 7 Odesa: Kyiv Post Review
Coronavirus
- COVID-19 in Ukraine: 17,479 new cases, 438 new deaths, 13,520 new vaccinations
- First Pfizer vaccine batch arrives in Ukraine
- Red & green zone countries
- Sign-up for vaccinations in Ukraine
- Financial Times: Bloomberg: COVID-19 vaccine tracker
Local farmers start spring grain sowing
Ukrainian farmers continue the 2021 spring sowing, including in Kyiv Oblast. All Ukrainian regions have seeded a total of 853,260 hectares of wheat, barley, peas and oats as of April 8 or 11% of the expected area, according to the Economy Ministry. Overall, Ukraine will likely to have a total of 15.5 million hectares of gran area in 2021. This includes 7.6 million hectares of spring grains, the ministry has said. The 2021 sowing campaign started later in Ukraine because of cold weather in most of Ukraine.
Business
Interfax: Global steel demand to increase by 5.8% in 2021, by 2.7% in 2022 – Worldsteel
Business Wire
Four ways to invest in Ukraine’s infrastructure
Law firm Arzinger announces new appointments
Ukreximbank works as exclusive partner in large-scale infrastructure projects
Big Four audit, consulting firm EY announces its upcoming country leadership change
Arzinger strengthens its presence
GOLAW: Risks of being a top manager: personal assets under threat
Cosmetics giant L’Oréal contributes to solve ecological, social world challenges
Scholarship programs offered by Government of India for professionals and students
Kyiv Post joins Norwegian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce
Opinions
Tetiana Shevchuk: Weekly anti-corruption update in Ukraine
Timothy Ash: A gradual tightening of economic noose around Russia
Iryna Venediktova: The time is now for Ukraine to ratify the Istanbul Convention
Sasha Borovik: New tensions on Ukraine’s eastern border
Mark Temnycky: Three options for West on Putin’s Ukraine build-up
Halya Coynash: Mothers of Crimean Tatar political prisoners prosecuted
Halya Coynash: Russian military chief claims Ukrainу plans ‘provocation’
Pavel Felgenhauer: Moscow angered and bewildered by Biden’s summit proposal
Claudia Palazzo: Russian espionage case in Italy
Paul Goble: Putin regime on the road to committing suicide
Konstantin Eggert: After unveiling sanctions, does Biden hope for a deal with Putin?
| From the archives: Capital’s hidden air raid shelters brought back to service Kyiv authorities on April 16 released a map of bomb shelters in case of a deeper Russian invasion. Ukraine’s been through this drill before in the early stages of Russia’s first invasion in 2014. |
