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Photos: US Air Force convertiplanes fly over Kyiv

The United States Air Force’s tiltrotor aircraft Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey carried out a flight over Kyiv midday on Sept. 23, shortly after accomplishing a training mission together with Ukraine’s military.

Business Update

Interfax: Naftogaz head says losses in H1 expected amid falling prices, loss of revenues from gas transit
Interfax: Ukraine, Hungary to hold business forum soon
Workers’ Liberty: Ukraine miners’ protest goes underground
World Cargo News: Ukraine to kick off radical transformation of its port sector
Pinset Masons: Ukraine renewables feed-in tariff reduction could lead to investor action
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Opinions

Alexei Bayer: Donald Trump and his Bolsheviks
Andreas Kluth: Lukashenko and Erdogan are laughing at the EU
Sabine Fischer: What Russia doesn’t get about Germany
New York Times: Putin thinks he can get away with anything
Franak Viačorka: How post-election protests are creating a new Belarus
Halya Coynash: Ukraine brings criminal charges against Russian Orthodox priest
Mykola Vorobiov: Zelensky puts Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic future at risk

Kyiv Post 25th Anniversary Series: From The Archives

Justice Delayed & Denied

When it comes to investigating the crimes of the powerful, Ukraine’s law enforcement and justice system have proven to be impotent. No high-profile murders have been solved. And high-level corruption, which by official estimates took $40 billion out of Ukraine from 2010-2014 alone, remains unpunished. As Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said at the Yalta European Strategy conference on Sept. 17 about the failure to prosecute anyone for major crimes: “You can’t catch a big fish with a small, thin rod.”

The Kyiv Post chronicles some the most high-profile and publicized cases that languish.