Ukraine will participate in the testing of the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI), which will allow Ukrainians to use their digital identifiers in the EU and Europeans to use their digital wallets in Ukraine for services such as opening bank accounts, storing driver's licenses, using electronic signatures, and receiving electronic medical prescriptions.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has launched an investigation into the acquisition of control over Lifecell, Global Billi and Ukrtower by the French company DVL Telecom due to potential antitrust concerns.
According to CoinGecko, the value of bitcoin has exceeded $71,000 for the first time, setting a new record.
More than 1,200 Ukrainians have received sentences ranging from suspended to 5 years in prison for evading military service since the start of the war in 2024.
The National Bank of Ukraine devalued the hryvnia by 5 kopecks, setting the official exchange rate at 38. 14 UAH/USD and 41.69 UAH/EUR.
Tonight, the 96th Academy Awards ceremony will take place, where the Ukrainian documentary 20 Days in Mariupol has a chance to become the first Ukrainian film to win an Oscar in the Documentary category.
During the week of March 4-10, 2,796 explosive devices were found, seized and defused in Ukraine, mostly in Kharkiv, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, and an area of 2,563. 61 hectares was checked and cleared of mines.
Net sales of dollars by the National Bank of Ukraine dropped to $133. 69 million, the lowest in 11 months, as sales of foreign currency more than halved, while purchases remained high.
The head of the UGCC, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, firmly stated that no one in Ukraine even thinks about surrendering despite the ongoing hostilities, emphasizing Ukraine's determination to stand up and resist the russian invasion.
russians struck Myrnohrad with modern UMPB D-30SN aircraft bombs, injuring 12 people, including a teenager, and damaging 17 residential buildings and 27 vehicles.
The russians are moving their ship repair bases from Crimea to Taman, likely to strengthen their ability to repair warships in Novorossiysk due to effective Ukrainian strikes on military facilities in Crimea.
In the temporarily occupied territories, Russians are campaigning among children and parents in kindergartens, promoting pro-Russian sentiment and militaristic content, seeking to change the identity of an entire generation of Ukrainians.
Over the past week, russians threw grenades with poisonous asphyxiating and tear gas about 50 times in the Zaporizhzhia sector.
In Odesa region, 182 cases of scarlet fever were reported in 2023, which is 2. 6 times more than in 2022, including 61 cases among children, including one death due to complications.
Pope Francis calls for talks between Ukraine and Russia to end the war, using the "white flag" as a symbol of a cessation of hostilities and a truce through diplomatic efforts toward a just and lasting peace.
Polish farmers have unblocked the Krakovets checkpoint, allowing about 600 Ukrainian trucks that were previously stuck there to cross the border, but continue to block traffic on 5 other directions, where about 1700 trucks are still queuing at the Ukrainian-Polish border.
russian troops fired 476 times at 13 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region, destroying 19 residential buildings and infrastructure.
Ukraine and Poland are close to resolving the import conflict through negotiations that will allow for the introduction of temporary security measures to protect Polish farmers from the flow of Ukrainian agricultural imports.
In January-February 2024, Ukraine's foreign trade deficit in goods reached $3. 2 billion, with imports amounting to $10 billion and exports to $6.8 billion.
Since the beginning of the war, Canada has accepted more than 248 thousand Ukrainian refugees under CUAET. In total, the Canadian government has received more than 1.2 million applications for this visa, of which it has approved more than 960 thousand.
In February, the National Bank of Ukraine fined Ukrposhta JSC over UAH 17 million and imposed penalties on 3 banks and 13 non-bank financial institutions totaling over UAH 27 million for violations of financial monitoring and currency legislation.
In the fourth quarter of 2023, the highest salaries in Ukraine were in the IT sector, and the lowest were for librarians and archivists, according to the State Statistics Service.
The National Bank of Ukraine has raised the official exchange rate of the hryvnia to the US dollar by 18 kopecks to 38. 0836 UAH/$ and to the euro by 11 kopecks to 41.4883 UAH/€ as of March 8.
The gold price hit a new record of $2154 per ounce after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced a likely interest rate cut this year.
For the first time in 13 months, Tesla Inc. fell out of the top 10 most expensive US companies by market capitalization, giving way to Visa Inc.
In Ukraine, only 42% of public data is open, and the State Tax Service, the Ministry of Economy, and the Ministry of Health are the least transparent institutions according to the Open Data Quality Index.
Odesa region needs special air defense systems to shoot down ballistic missiles because of its significant impact on the Ukrainian economy.
The Russians have reduced their air activity in the Kherson area, flying over the Azov or Black Sea instead of using guided bombs as they did before.
The National Bank of Ukraine has set the official hryvnia exchange rate for March 7 at 38. 2664 UAH/$, strengthening the hryvnia by 12 kopecks compared to the previous day.
During the past two years of full-scale invasion, Ukraine has destroyed 27 ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, including a submarine, and damaged another 15 vessels that are undergoing repairs.
