Multiple fires around Kyiv, Chornobyl pollute air, destroy nature 256 20 Ukrainian doctors arrive in Italy to help fight coronavirus 211 A treasure trove of Ukrainian history and culture in Connecticut 138 Ihor Kolomoisky, the oligarch and former owner of PrivatBank, will face trial at the High Court in London next year after the UK Supreme Court rejected his request to appeal an earlier verdict. Kolomoisky, and a number of co-defendants that include his business partner Hennadiy Boholyubov,...

Ukraine registered 206 new cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours that followed the morning of April 7. There are now at least 1,668 confirmed cases in total, with 52 confirmed deaths, the health ministry reports. “52 were fatal, with 35 recoveries. Over the past day, 206 new cases were recorded,” the Ministry of Health reported on its Facebook page on Wednesday. Parliament’s health committee is preparing a bill on licensing medicines to fight COVID-19. The Rada’s committee for health and medical...

Top stories of the day – Cabinet offers Hr 66 billion ($2.5 billion) for coronavirus recovery in new budget proposal. The fund would pay for medical equipment and support Ukrainians affected by the economic downturn provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief sanitary doctor: Ukraine can test 30,000 people weekly, but there is no need. Ukraine has the resources to ramp up its COVID-19 testing capacity to 30,000 tests per week. Big businesses open pockets to fight COVID-19. As COVID-19 sweeps...

With Ukraine already in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the possibility of $50 billion in emergency financial aid, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has told the Kyiv Post that it too is ready to step up and help the country handle its COVID-19 crisis with emergency funds. The European Union’s investment bank is already one of Ukraine’s largest investors and is preparing to mobilize more capital amid the economic fallout around coronavirus. “The EIB is ready to give...

A worker disinfects a room at the Red Cross hospital in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on March 18, 2020. - The hospital, which has been used to treat COVID-19 coronavirus patients, will be temporarily closed from March 18 for a week of extensive disinfection, before being returned to service as a general hospital. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT In the last few days, the first airlifts to Ukraine of medical supplies from China touched down in Kyiv. Ukraine is set to receive 10...