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Volkswagen is considering closing its plant in Brussels due to low demand for electric vehicles, which could be the first plant closure for the automaker since 1988, when it stopped production in Alabama.

Germany has blocked the sale of Volkswagen's subsidiary MAN Energy Solutions to a Chinese company on national security grounds, deepening tensions with its trading partner.

In June 2024, about 5. 2 thousand new passenger cars were registered in Ukraine, which is 8% less than in June 2023, which was the first negative trend in demand for new cars this year compared to the previous year.

In Kyiv, a 35-year-old BMW driver hit a 10-year-old boy on a pedestrian crossing, causing the child to sustain serious injuries, and was notified of suspicion under Article 286 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

In the Kiev region, an accident involving a car and a minibus with 10 passengers, including children, occurred, two people were hospitalized.

A one-year-old child and a 26-year-old woman were injured in a traffic accident involving two cars in the village of Hlevakha, Kyiv region.

The truck lost a wheel while driving on the Paton bridge in Kiev, damaging another car, but there were no reports of injuries.

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A 43-year-old Volkswagen driver hit a 14-year-old cyclist while overtaking in the village of Bolshaya Aleksandrovka, Kiev region.

A motorcyclist and his passenger were hospitalized with injuries after a Honda motorcycle collided with a Volkswagen Golf car on the Kiev-chop highway in the village of Kolodenka, Rivne region.

A group of people are suspected of attempting to murder the financial director of a construction company in Dnipropetrovs'k region. The alleged organizer of the crime was involved in drug trafficking and the organization of call centers.

Estonia has donated 31 vehicles, including 16 Skoda Octavias and 15 Volkswagen Tiguan, to Ukrainian law enforcement officers in the border areas of Chernihiv and Zhytomyr regions.

In the Lviv region, as a result of a car collision on the Bibrka-Burshtyn highway, three people were injured, including a 2-year-old girl.

In the first five months of 2024, 160,750 cars were imported to Ukraine, which is 21% more than in the same period of 2023, while Volkswagen became the most popular brand.

On the highway near the village of Derevyana, Kyiv region, five cars collided, as a result of which no one was injured.

Ukrainians have already bought and sold cars more than 100,000 times using the "Diia", which allows them to re-register vehicles and get license plates without visiting service centers, avoiding queues, runners and bank payments, with an average cost of a car of 204,500 Hryvnia.

The driver of a Volkswagen lost control on the Mironovka-Kanev highway, as a result of which the car slid into a ditch and rolled over on the roof. A passenger was injured in the accident, who was taken to the hospital with a suspected spinal fracture.

In April, Ukrainians bought 5. 3 thousand used cars up to 5 years old imported from abroad, with Tesla Model Y and Model 3 being the most popular models.

Former deputy head of the presidential office Andriy Smirnov was informed of suspicion of illegal enrichment for UAH 15. 7 million after acquiring assets worth UAH 17.1 million in 2020-2022, which exceeded his official income.

MP Anna Skorokhod has increased her wealth, while her ex-husband of Russian origin, Oleksiy Alyakin (now Levkovsky), is making hundreds of millions from modular shelters in Ukraine through a company potentially linked to Skorokhod's construction firm.

In Vinnytsia region, a collision between a Daewoo and a Volkswagen killed two people and hospitalized one.

In April, the Ukrainian car fleet was replenished with more than 4,200 electric vehicles, which is twice the demand compared to the same period in 2023.

A 25-year-old BMW driver drove against one-way traffic on Velyka Vasylkivska Street in Kyiv, colliding with parked Volkswagen and Ford cars, injuring three passengers.

In the village of Kolonshchyna, Kyiv region, a 49-year-old driver in a Volkswagen hit a 42-year-old cyclist, which resulted in the cyclist being hospitalized with head injuries and a skull fracture.

During the year of war, Poroshenko's MPs and the OPFL purchased apartments and cars worth millions - NACP.

Hackers stole about 19,000 Volkswagen technical files over 5 years from 2010 to 2015, including data on internal combustion engines, gearboxes, electric vehicles, and batteries.

In March, more than 4,400 electric vehicles were added to Ukraine's car fleet, and demand for them increased 2. 3 times year-on-year.

A drunk Volkswagen driver crashed into a VAZ car in Kyiv region, injuring four people who were hospitalized.

In March 2024, sales of new passenger cars in Ukraine increased by 50% year-on-year, with Toyota becoming the top-selling brand, followed by Renault and Skoda, and the Renault Duster becoming the best-selling model.

A Nissan passenger was killed in a collision between a Volkswagen Bora and a Nissan Leaf electric car in Lviv Oblast, and criminal proceedings have been opened.