Ukraine’s health ministry has reported a one-day record of 793 deaths from COVID-19

Several hundred people blocked traffic in the centre of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Wednesday in a protest against coronavirus restrictions and mandatory vaccinations, which the government introduced to curb new infections

Ukraine's coronavirus infections and deaths reached all-time highs for a second straight day Friday, in a growing challenge for the country with one of Europe's lowest shares of vaccinated people

The German government has allocated EUR 10 million for the development of social services and support for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in communities in eastern Ukraine

What changes in the policy of the two countries can be caused by the coronavirus pandemic

It was learned from a well-informed source familiar with the respective initiative of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in June he’d considered infecting himself to show people it’s "not the plague"

Amidst second wave of COVID-19 pandemic The Ukrainian Week talked to the founder and CEO of Global Institute for Tomorrow Chandran Nair about causes and lessons of the pandemic as well as ways to solving some global problems of humanity

The move comes one day earlier than initially announced

Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister and Chief Sanitary Doctor Viktor Liashko has said

The statement comes amid the recent resurgence of COVID-19 incidence

How the pandemic undermines confidence in the UK government

On June 15, Ukraine is starting to welcome foreigners back to the country and letting Ukrainians travel abroad

The Ukrainian government will relaunch passenger air travel and allow indoor restaurants to reopen after over two months of lockdown intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on June 3

As Ukraine progresses through its five phases of relaxing national quarantine measures, the country’s next step will be to address the economic disruption caused by the coronavirus crisis

While EU countries negotiate with Ukraine about special flights for seasonal workers, some people are coming to the bloc on their own, despite coronavirus restrictions. But they face many obstacles on the way

Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnyk has said

Some 180 servicemen are being kept in isolation

Minister claims Ukraine is facing the peak of COVID-19 spread

(Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov pictured in Kyiv on April 4, 2020)

To help unblock the supply of imported substances for production of medicines at domestic pharmaceutical plants

Coronavirus cases are expected to peak over Easter

It's a rise from the 311 cases reported early on March 28

In exceptional cases, a person may be given permission to cross the line in critical life circumstances, with supporting documents for such circumstances

Deputy Minister of Health - Chief State Sanitary Doctor Viktor Liashko announced this at a briefing

Among other measures, the draft bans mass events with more than 200 participants

This is a man of advanced years

Ukraine has so far been spared from a major coronavirus outbreak. The country’s economy, however, is far less quarantined from the disease’s global impact

A Ukrainian who recently returned home after a vacation in Italy is infected with coronavirus, Deputy Health Minister Viktor Lyashko said at a briefing

The Cabinet of Ministers intends to launch an information resource containing information on the coronavirus Covid-19

The government can hardly count on support from the streets despite its high ratings

How might the “servants of the people” take a chance and reboot governments in the regions?

A look at the current online strategies of the two main rivals in the 2019 presidential campaign

Who voted for whom, or to what extent voter preferences coincide with the results of their choices

The current powers-that-be obviously reflect their voters, but wherein does the real similarity lie?

What conclusions the patriotic camp should draw from Ukraine’s presidential and parliamentary elections...

The hidden danger of “peace at any cost” made us realise that ending the war and reintegration of the occupied territories are two separate, unrelated issues

How the new parliament will be different from the previous one, and why the latest change is not a revolution

How the 2019 elections were different from all the previous ones in the Donbas

The only barrier to a long usurpation of power by the one-party propresident majority will be fragmentation of his faction in parliament amidst the lack of serious competition and temptations of power

Sunday's vote will determine newly-elected president's tenure as he needs power in legislature to implement his agenda

How popular parties plan to implement rule of law reforms

The Ukrainian Week discussed with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada the likely scenarios of revenge and means of its prevention, as well as the results of the government’s activity over the past five years

The Ukraine-Russia union treaty of 1920

When Russian-backed separatists began their offensive in eastern Ukraine in spring 2014, the city of Sloviansk was the first one they took over. After several months, it was liberated, but it keeps its memory as the place where Russia’s war in eastern Ukraine, which killed over 13,000 people, started

What will Ukraine rely on after any result of the election?

Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has scored a landslide victory in the country's presidential election

Ukrainians cast ballots Sunday in a presidential runoff which had the incumbent struggling to fend off a strong challenge by a comedian who denounces corruption and plays the role of president in a TV sitcom

How Donbas elected president after almost a decade break

Why the development of political marketing can make democracy in Ukraine a threat to national security

In a popular TV series, a fictional Ukrainian president gets so drunk at a dinner with the head of the International Monetary Fund that he throws her into a swimming pool

A comedian with no political experience has won the most votes in the first round of Ukraine's presidential elections, early results indicate

How the current and former leadership of the self-declared republics in occupied Donbas see the upcoming elections for President of Ukraine

Electoral preferences according to the map

Ukrainian voters residing in Russia will be able to vote in the presidential election only by travelling to another country, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said

What are the main candidates for president proposing in their platforms and how have these changed from what they proposed five years ago

Why Ukraine’s parties are not social lifts and will never be, so unless they change fundamentally

Parliament and Ukrainian presidential election: action and reaction

A clash was with far-right demonstrators who disrupted a campaign appearance of President Petro Poroshenko

The political novice's popularity with voters has left pundits scratching their heads — and some critics fearing he's biting off more than he can chew

Poroshenko and Tymoshenko's chances to make it to the second round are almost equal, experts say

The CEC is to officially announce the final registered list of candidates no later than February 9

Russia has developed three scenarios

On the prospeсts of Ukraine’s economy in 2019

How different is the current campaign in terms of political slogans and promises compared to 2014?

Apart from the desire for power, what drives presidential candidates to play with voters and how dangerous is this for Ukraine?

What to expect in the new parliamentary season

UAH 6,659, 11,951 and 7,451, an equivalent of $256, 450 and 280 – this is how an average Ukrainian sees desired subsistence, average wage and pension across Ukraine, according to SOCIS, a sociology center. According to the State Statistics Bureau, the real numbers are UAH 1,777, 8,725 and 2,479 respectively, or around $68, 335 and 95.

The opposition in Ukraine is mostly reactive and it chooses actions that will be most useful for criticizing the current Administration or gaining the attention of a specific part of the electorate. What Ukraine needs most right now is a consolidating program and a party that could present its own alternative for the country

The strange multiplication by division of political parties in Ukraine and their internecine infighting

Amour-Auguste-Louis-Joseph Berthelot, better known as baron de Baye (1853-1931), was a member of Société de Géographie, the world's oldest geographical society based in Paris. In the late 19th century, he made unique photographs of Ukrainians as he travelled across the country for an archeological expedition. Baron de Baye left behind a series of works on Ukraine, including Etudes sur l'archéologie de l'Ukraine antérieure à notre ère (1895), Kiev, la mère des villes russes (1896), En Petite-Russie: souvenirs d'une mission (1903), En Crimée (1908) and more. All of his works were published in Paris.

What cyberthreats Ukraine is likely to face in 2019 elections, and what it is doing to prevent them

Who wins the next election won’t be decided by the voters who are now supporting various parties and candidates but by those who will vacillate until the very last minute

What those in power and opposition are likely to do to improve their rates and mobilize the electorate

Undecided voters are a tasty morsel for parties that are not in the Verkhovna Rada, yet none of these parties has much of a chance of winning them over in significant numbers

What threats face Ukraine if a fragmented Verkhovna Rada is elected that does not represent the interests of the majority of Ukrainians?

The authors, the readers and the anti- bourgeois persecutors of romance novels in the 1920s

Ukrainian calendar has obviously got some dates that are more problem-plagued than others. May events of the last two years, including the anniversary of Odesa tragedy and Victory Day, prove this true. On these days, the old world represented by elderly pensioners and pro-Russian Ukrainians clashes with the relatively new one represented by pro-Ukrainian youth

Why the Dnipropetrovsk clan lost to the Donetsk clan and the chances of a comeback

The beginning and end of World War II brought about political collusions that greatly discredited the leaders of Western democracies

Soviet Communism was always reminiscent of the nearly Byzantine sacrosanct structure of symbolic authority, and the fusion of the sacral and secular elements of power

After 1989, East European Communists transformed into social-democrats. Those who survived lustration remained in politics at home through the 1990s and early 2000s

One of the biggest crises the newly re-independent state of Estonia faced was an attempt to establish an autonomous region in its northeast part in 1993

On May 9, cables were set on fire in the tunnels between the Kyiv TV tower and the building of the National TV and Radio Company of Ukraine; separatists intensified their actions in Mariupol, Ukrainian military annihilated terrorists; ex-Party of Regions MP Oleh Tsariov bailed out an arrested coordinator of pro-Russian separatists; Kharkiv refused to hold a separation referendum

On the eve of the Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship to take place on May 9-25, numerous opposition activists were arrested. As of May 9, at least 28 political inmates are kept at prison isolators in Minsk

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt commented on the situation in Ukraine to journalists in a doorstep interview prior to the Foreign Affaris Council taking place on January 20 in Brussels.

One of leaders of the Ukrainian opposition Arseniy Yatseniuk said that Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych called him and said he agreed for negotiations.

A large rally in Kiev that was called in part to protest a new set of laws cracking down on public protests turned violent on Sunday, 19th, The New York Times reports.

The 1932-33 Holodomor was a consequence of the Bolsheviks’ efforts to completely eradicate private property

On September 11, 2011, the world was transformed and Ukraine was among the first to experience the changes