Ukraine

Daria Bilodid won bronze at the Grand Slam tournament in Baku, defeating Julie Burskens from the Netherlands, her first competition in six months after a back injury.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine has announced plans to increase teacher salaries by 21% and a large-scale reform of higher education as priorities in the government's action plan until 2024.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is deploying a new grouping of mine countermeasures forces in the Black Sea using two British Sandown-class mine countermeasures ships.

The Kherson Art Museum has identified 88 paintings from its collection that were stolen by the Russian occupiers and found in Crimea, including a work by People's Artist of Ukraine Viktor Poltavets.

The Ukrainian government allocates UAH 2. 5 billion for the construction of shelters in educational institutions and UAH 1.5 billion for the development of the New Ukrainian School program.

A civilian was killed as a result of a six-hour-long shelling by Russian troops of the Velykopysarivska territorial community of Okhtyrka district, Sumy region.

Doctors at the Center for Children's Medicine in Lviv shortened the baby's tongue, which was 5 times longer than normal due to the rare Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.

The official statement of the Vinnytsia Regional Council, however, states that "every month, employees of the executive office of the regional council raise funds to purchase the most necessary things for the Armed Forces units. In 2023, more than a million hryvnias were raised.

Zelenskyy met with German President Steinmeier in Berlin. We talked about the situation at the front and the current defense needs of Ukraine.

Partisans in Crimea put up a Ukrainian flag on Mount Chatyr-Dag in honor of the Day of Unification of Ukraine.

Allowing putin to succeed in Ukraine and forcibly move borders in Europe would undermine the European peace order and set a dangerous precedent for further aggression, the German Chancellor believes.

Germany has provided Ukraine with 3 demining vehicles, reconnaissance drones, 155-mm ammunition and other military equipment as part of a new military aid package.

Between December 30 and February 7, Russia fired 24 North Korean ballistic missiles at Ukraine, killing 14 civilians.

Germany will provide Ukraine with artillery systems and other weapons as part of a new $1. 1 billion defense package that President Zelenskiy says will soon be deployed to the front.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that the death of Alexei Navalny is another murder by Putin of another critic of the Russian government.

The US vice president warned that isolationism and abandonment of allies is dangerous and undermines stability, implicitly rejecting Trump's worldview.

After two previous detentions, a third truck was intercepted this month as it tried to smuggle cigarettes across the Ukrainian-Romanian border.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine has announced plans to create this year an analog of the Diia digital service for civil servants to speed up their work and improve its quality and transparency.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine announced that the government is working weekly with partners to attract USD 37 billion in external financing to cover the state budget deficit.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine has announced that in the first half of 2024, Ukraine will form a team to negotiate accession to the European Union.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine considers anti-Ukrainian protests in Poland unacceptable and calls on the Polish authorities to take a constructive approach to resolving issues related to the transit of Ukrainian grain and trade.

Zelenskyy expects the U. S. Congress to approve further aid to Ukraine to continue its defense against Russian aggression.

According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, this year Ukraine plans to create the first domestic demining vehicles and increase the number of sappers by at least 10%.

Euroclear has warned that the use of frozen Russian assets as collateral for the issuance of debt to Ukraine could pose risks to European financial stability and expose Euroclear to legal action.

Two Russian airline executives have been notified of suspicion of illegally transporting passengers across the Ukrainian border to Crimea by organizing regular flights from Russian cities to Simferopol International Airport.

The Government of Ukraine has approved a regulation that defines the tasks, functions, components and procedure of the educational mobile application Mriya to ensure equal access to knowledge for Ukrainians.

The White House representative noted that Ukraine will need reliable security guarantees after the war, as it will have a long border with Russia even after the war is over.

The government plans to create a "Made in Ukraine" fund to support domestic producers.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged the U. S. Congress to approve further aid to Ukraine as soon as possible during a joint press conference with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The Ministers of Agriculture of Ukraine and Poland discussed solving problems at the border for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products and continuing negotiations next week.