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The war in Ukraine by the powerful Russia is entering into another carriage as Russia military, for the first time, deployed her hypersonic missiles on the Ukrainian city of Odesa.%0d%0a

Ukraine and its allies, including London, are threatening Russia for the last 1,000 years, to move Nato to our borders, to cancel our culture - they have bullied us for many, many years

Tensions between the West and Russia have been growing in recent months.
The situation continues to heat up. Politicians and oligarchs are leaving the country, taking their capital with them. The US has not set the best example by moving its embassy from Kyiv to Lviv. Western insurance companies

The Ukrainian leadership seems to have found a way, if not to overcome, then to ease the energy crisis and reduce dependence on Russia in this area.
Hungary should help solve the gas sulfur problem. Ukrainian GTS Operator signed an agreement with Hungarian partner FGSZ for reverse gas supplies from

A year ago, on October 25, 2020, together with the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, an all-Ukrainian poll “5 questions from the President of Ukraine” was conducted.
The poll was conducted at the initiative of the head of state Volodymyr Zelensky. “5 important questions about what we discuss on the

With the beginning of the European integration path, new trends and movements have appeared in Ukraine.
Some of them are very contradictory and it is not yet clear how they will coexist with each other.
In particular, nationalism and the development of the LGBT movement. Both directions are

Ukraine is actively seeking for membership in the EU and NATO. The entire policy of the country is aimed at integration into Euro-Atlantic structures.
But it looks like Kyiv is not expected either in the European Union or NATO. This is clearly indicated by the latest statements by European and

The Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 will soon be fully completed. This is no longer in doubt.
However, it is quite possible to stop or postpone its functioning. This opinion is shared by some opponents of the pipeline.
To this end, Poland has filed a lawsuit with the European Court for Gazprom

At the beginning of this year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a series of weekly “Ukraine 30” forums.
Four forums from this series have already passed. The first forum was dedicated to the coronavirus. In the course of it, the president promised to start mass vaccination in February, and

In Ukraine, on February 24, vaccination of the population began. Kyiv received the first batch of the long-awaited vaccine.
Currently, coronavirus vaccines of two suppliers have been certified in Ukraine. These are Pfizer / BioNTech and Oxford / AstraZeneca. According to the country's Minister of

Last week, the Verkhovna Rada approved the draft state budget for 2021.
The volume of expenses of the new budget is comparable to the current one. At the same time, the expected receipts to the treasury will be reduced by at least 247 billion hryvnia.
On the positive side, it is worth noting the

Former Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Pavel Kukhta announced the growth of a hole in the Ukrainian budget.
In his words, unfinanced budget expenditures amount to tens of billions of hryvnias. Moreover, one third of them falls on protected expenses (the volume of which does not change with a

t the end of July, the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko and the new head of the National Bank, Kirill Shevchenko, on behalf of the government, signed a memorandum with the European Union in Brussels on the allocation of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 1.2

This week, Mikheil Saakashvili’s candidacy for the post of Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for reform is expected to be considered.
According to the former president of Georgia and the ex-governor of the Odessa region, the initiative came from President Vladimir Zelensky. "It is a great honor for me