The Ukrainian Weekly (https://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/author/mark/page/7/)
KYIV – Attempted coup suspect Nadiya Savchenko, a lawmaker, and her alleged co-conspirator Volodymyr Ruban were released from custody on April 15 after their pre-trial detention term expired and wasn’t extended in a Brovary city district court.
KYIV – Runoff candidates Volodymyr Zelensky and incumbent Petro Poroshenko this week elaborated on the first steps they would take in the next presidential term. Both presented similar approaches to fighting corruption that emphasized the need to reboot the law enforcement and judicial system.
Runoff candidates agree to debate
KYIV – Presidential election runoff opponents Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky have provisionally agreed to a debate after the political neophyte and comedian took nearly a third of the first round vote tally on March 31 among 39 candidates.
KYIV – As Ukrainians head to the polls on March 31 to elect their sixth post-Soviet president, questions still linger about the commitment the three front-runners have to continue reforming the country to realize its true economic potential.
KYIV – Presidential front-runner Volodymyr Zelensky continued to meet with mostly foreign stakeholders in semi-private meetings this week while his two closest competitors stayed on the campaign trail as the March 31 election draws near.
KYIV – At least two nationwide exit polls, one Western-funded and the other paid for by Russian-leaning television channels, will be conducted during the March 31 presidential election.
KYIV – Politically untested comedian and actor Volodymyr Zelensky continues to lead a pool of 39 presidential candidates in an unpredictable first round of Ukraine’s presidential election, according to two nationwide surveys released this week.
KYIV – Four years and one month ago, the second of two major and decisive battles took place in the Donbas war. In the Battle of Debaltseve in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine’s army tested itself against regular and irregular units of the Russian military, including battle-hardened mercenaries from the Wagner private military outfit.
KYIV – On March 3, Archbishop Klyment (Kushch) who heads the Crimean eparchy of the newly formed Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), went to the bus station in Symferopol to embark on a trip to visit a Ukrainian political prisoner in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
KYIV – Ukraine’s ex-President Viktor Yanukovych allegedly laundered $4.2 million worth of bribes through a Swedish bank in 2011 disguised as book royalties, Swedish broadcaster SVT reported on February 27.