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Ukraine to ship wheat to Saudi for the first time in 12 years

Ukraine will supply milling wheat to Saudi Arabia for the first time in 12 years, exporter Continental Farmers Group said on Monday, with 60,000 tonnes now being loaded at the…

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Ukraine reports record daily jump in coronavirus cases

Ukraine registered a record 2,723 cases of the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the national security council said on Friday, up from a previous record of 2,495 cases.…

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Covid-19 cases in the Ukraine continue to increase

There has been a surge in cases in the Ukraine with a record 2,495 new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the national security council said on Wednesday, up from…

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MH17 victims’ relatives to seek damages from suspects

More than 300 relatives of victims who died when a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane was shot down in 2014 will seek unspecified damages from four suspects being tried in the Netherlands, lawyers…

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PhotoStory – Remembering victims of East Ukraine’s conflict

Young Ukrainian girl reacts during a meeting to memory of lost soldiers in front of the Memory wall of Ukrainian fallen defenders, who died in the Eastern-Ukrainian conflict, near the…

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Ukraine reports record daily rise in coronavirus cases

Ukraine registered a record 2,481 cases of the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, officials said on Saturday, up from 2,438 in the previous day. The increase comes after…

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Ukraine bans foreigners, extends lockdown measures to fight COVID-19

Ukraine on Wednesday imposed a temporary ban on most foreigners from entering the country until Sept. 28 and extended lockdown measures until the end of October to contain a recent…

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Former Ukrainian premier Tymoshenko tests positive for coronavirus

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and is in serious condition with a fever, her party’s spokeswoman said. Tymoshenko, 59, who twice served…

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Ukraine President urges people to take seriously recent spike in cases

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged people to act on health advice on Saturday after official data showed daily COVID-19 infections had risen to a record level. The country saw 2,328…

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Ukraine registers record daily high of new coronavirus cases

Ukraine registered 2,134 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, a new daily record for infections in the country, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said on Thursday. Stepanov said the…

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Royal Navy to send ships to Ukraine to defend itself against Russian threat

The Royal Navy is to send ships to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia threat in the Black Sea for the first time. Ben Wallace said that the new Maritime…

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Ukraine reports record daily high of 1,967 new coronavirus cases

Ukraine registered 1,967 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday, a new daily record for infections in the country. The data given by the national…

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Record daily jump in coronavirus cases in Ukraine

Ukraine recorded a record daily jump of 1,592 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the national council of security and defence said on Thursday. The number of infections has increased sharply in…

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Ukraine reports steady rise in COVID cases, deaths

Ukraine has recorded a steady daily increase in coronavirus cases in recent weeks and the health ministry is urging people to observe safety measures to stop the epidemic getting out…

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Ukraine reports record daily new coronavirus cases

Ukraine reported a record daily high of 1,271 new coronavirus cases on Aug. 4, the country's council of security and defense said on Wednesday. The number of new infections has…

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Belarus, Ukraine beef up border controls after detention of alleged Russian mercenaries

Belarus and Ukraine have agreed to beef up their border controls and expand border cooperation after Belarus detained more than 30 alleged Russian mercenaries near Minsk ahead of Belarus' presidential…

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Ukraine sees record daily high of 1,197 new coronavirus cases

Ukraine reported a record daily high of 1,197 new coronavirus cases on July 29, the country’s council of security and defence said on Thursday. The number of new daily infections has…

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Ukraine says separatists violated ceasefire within hours

A full and comprehensive ceasefire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists that entered into force in eastern Ukraine on Monday has already been violated by separatists, Ukrainian military said.…

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Putin and Zelenskiy pledge support for ceasefire in Ukraine starting tomorrow

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed the conflict in eastern Ukraine and both expressed support for a ceasefire that starts on July 27, their offices said on…

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Ukrainian Football national team doctor dies from coronavirus

Anton Hudaev, the Ukrainian national team’s doctor, has died from the novel coronavirus at the age of 48, the domestic football association (UAF) said. “On behalf of the President of…

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Ukraine reports highest daily number of coronavirus cases in a month

Ukraine reported 1,106 new cases of the coronavirus within a 24-hour period, the highest daily toll since a record on June 26, when it reached 1,109, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov…

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Ukraine: Black box transcript confirms illegal interference with jet downed in Iran in January

The transcript from the black boxes from a Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran on Jan. 8 confirm the fact of illegal interference with the plane, Ukraine's deputy foreign…

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Lucescu appointed Dynamo Kyiv coach

Former Romania and Turkey manager Mircea Lucescu has been appointed Dynamo Kyiv coach, the Ukrainian club said on Thursday. Lucescu, who turns 75 next Wednesday, previously transformed Shakhtar Donetsk into…

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Man armed with hand grenade takes police chief hostage in central Ukraine

A man armed with a grenade escaped arrest on Thursday and took a senior Ukrainian policeman hostage in the central city of Poltava, a government minister said. It was the second…

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Deal reached for east Ukraine ceasefire from July 27

Ukrainian, Russian and OSCE negotiators reached an agreement for a full ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine from Monday, Ukraine’s president’s office said. A simmering conflict…

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Ukraine bus hijack ends

A stand-off with a gunman in Ukraine has ended with police storming a bus and freeing his hostages after hours of negotiations, officials say. BBC reports that Interior Minister Arsen…

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Gunman armed with explosives holding 20 people on board bus as hostages in Ukraine

A 'hostage situation' has developed in Ukraine after a gunman armed with explosives took over a passenger bus with around 20 people on board in the western Ukrainian city of…

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Work on flight recorders from Ukrainian jet shot down in Iran started

Investigators have begun work on the flight recorders from the Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran in January, France's BEA accident investigation bureau said on Monday. Iranian forces say…

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Ukraine to stage military exercises to coincide with Russian manoeuvres

Ukraine said on Friday it would conduct military exercises, which it hoped NATO partners would join, as an answer to planned Russian exercises in the Caucasus, and an insurance against…

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Stamp Duty in the UK scrapped on all homes under £500,000 with immediate effect

Stamp duty in the UK has been scrapped immediately for all homes under £500,000, to kickstart the stalled housing market. Rishi Sunak said the move would benefit nine in ten…

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Forest fire kills 4 in Ukraine

Four people died and nine were hospitalised as a forest fire swept through villages in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, Ukraine's emergency services said. The fire has…

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Ukraine to open more hospitals to coronavirus cases amid surge

Ukraine is opening more of its hospitals to coronavirus cases as the institutions initially chosen to accept patients no longer have enough beds to cope with a surge in infections,…

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Photo Story: Fatal gas blast rattles Kiev

Residents watch the place of a gas explosion in an apartment building in Kiev, Ukraine. The nine-stored residential building in Kyiv has been struck by what appears to be a…

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Foreigners allowed into Ukraine to get surrogate-born babies

Authorities have allowed foreign parents into Ukraine to collect babies who were born to surrogate mothers and stranded in the eastern European country due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ukraine’s human…

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Photo Story: Hungarian helping hand in the Ukraine

Members of a Hungarian folk band wear and distribute embroidered face masks as protection against the coronavirus to passers-by in the center of Uzhhorod, Ukraine. Via EPA-EFE/Janos Nemes

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Ukrainian president says the country’s lockdown may be eased earlier than planned

Ukraine may move its plans to ease lockdown forward, citing positive trends in the rate of new coronavirus cases, its President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday. In a news conference marking…

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Surrogate births in Ukraine waiting for their parents

Nurses care for newborn babies at a hotel in Kiev, Ukraine, 16 May 2020. The 51 babies born to surrogate mothers in the Ukrainian BioTexCom clinic wait for their foreign…

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Ukraine’s top grain producing region may cut 2020 grain output by 70%

Ukraine's major grain producing region of Odessa has lost around 500,000 hectares of winter crops due to severe drought and its harvest could fall by nearly 70%, a top regional…

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Photo story: Ukrainian artists attract attention to their dire situation

The light rays are seen over Ukrainian capital during art-performance named 'Stop the culture's quarantine!' in Kiev, Ukraine, 12 May 2020, amid the ongoing coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Ukrainian artists try…

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Photo Story: Ukraine now has 10,406 confirmed coronavirus cases

The Ukraine now has 10,406 confirmed coronavirus cases and 261 deaths, the health minister, Maksym Stepanov, told a briefing on Thursday. The government has put lockdown measures in place…

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Ukraine extends coronavirus quarantine till May 11

Ukraine extended strong quarantine measures till May 11, hoping then to ease restrictions if there is a reduction in coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said on Wednesday. Ukraine…

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Ukraine forest fire reaches Chernobyl site, raising radiation concerns

A substantial forest fire in Ukraine that has been raging for the past eight days has worryingly reached the former nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. Greenpeace Russia warned that the…

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Forest fire at exclusion zone around Chernobyl nuclear power plant

A man holds a dosimeter close to an abandoned house burning in the middle of a forest fire near the village of Volodymyrivka, in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl…

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New restrictive measures adopted in the Ukraine

Ukraine's Cabinet provides the new norms of restrictive measures adopted to suppress the spread of COVID-19 acute respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Ukraine since 06 March. People…

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Ukraine announces nationwide quarantine measures

Ukrainians wait at a bus stop in Kiev, Ukraine, 20 March 2020. The limitations with municipal transport are some problems for people, who obligate to reach their job, especially medical…

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Ukrainian capital shuts schools, mass events to prevent spread of virus

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv will close schools and universities from March 12 until the end of March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, city mayor Vitali Klitschko announced. He said…

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Ukraine’s prime minister submits resignation . . . again

Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk submitted his resignation for a second time after reports that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy might be gearing up to sack him, the Ukrainian news outlet…

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Ukraine president convenes country’s security council after Russian forces shelling in Donbass region

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will convene a Ukrainian security council meeting on Tuesday after one soldier was killed and four wounded in what Kiev said was heavy shelling by Russian…

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Photo Story: Tribute to victims of Ukraine International Airlines crash in Iran

The ceremony of the founding a memorial square to the memory of victims of the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Flight PS752 that crashed in Iran, at Boryspil International Airport in…

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Iran will no longer share evidence from Ukraine airliner crash after leaked audio

Another pilot witnessed the moment the plane was hit and alerted the control tower, a leaked recording showed. Ukraine confirmed its authenticity, and now Iran says it no longer wants…

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Photo Story: Musical tribute in Ukrainian airports

Musicians from a military orchestra perform in the main terminal of the Boryspil International Airport in Kiev, Ukraine, 20 January 2020. Military orchestras on 20 January will perform at the…

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Ukraine president gives PM second chance

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday allowed Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk to keep his job after the leak of an embarrassing audio recording prompted Honcharuk to submit his resignation. In…

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Ukraine’s Prime Minister resigns

Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk offered his resignation to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday after less than six months in the role. The presidential office responded to the letter, saying they would consider…

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Ukrainian traditional holiday Malanka

Local men wearing bear costumes march during the celebrations of the winter holiday Malanka in the village of Krasnoilsk, western Ukraine, 14 January 2020. 'Malanka' - or 'Old New Year…

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Iran plane crash: Missile struck underneath cockpit – Ukraine

Ukraine's top security official, Oleksiy Danilov, has told the BBC that his country's investigators had already gathered evidence that a missile brought down a Ukrainian passenger jet, before Iran changed…

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