The Ukrainian Weekly (https://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/category/ukraine/news/page/2/)
KYIV – Targeting dozens of legal entities and individuals, including members of the country’s former political leadership, Ukraine over the past two weeks imposed a fourth round of sanctions designed to counter Russia’s influence in the country.
LVIV – While many Western countries have begun to see significant declines in COVID-19 infections and death rates, Ukraine instituted another pandemic lockdown to combat a record-setting spike of new cases that include the country’s chief state sanitary doctor.
KYIV – The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the country’s domestic intelligence agency, on March 12 announced that it is investigating former and current government officials for treason related to the extension of Russia’s lease of its Black Sea Fleet (BSF) in Crimea.
KYIV – The biggest umbrella organization representing Ukrainians worldwide has for the first time in more than 50 years expelled a member group.
LVIV – The Lviv regional council approved an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on March 16 requesting that the largest stadium here be renamed after Stepan Bandera, the former leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The move came after the Ternopil city council on March 5 renamed its largest stadium after Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) commander Roman Shukhevych.
KYIV – The U.S. State Department imposed travel bans on Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and his immediate family on March 5 citing the tycoon’s alleged “involvement in significant corruption.”
KYIV – Ukraine remained in the middle “partly free” category among 195 countries in a yearly freedom ranking, advancing slightly on social progress while placing in the upper one-fifth among global militaries.
LVIV – Celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8, Ukrainians held rallies throughout the country in which activists called on the government to do more on gender equality and safety for women.
Rallies were held in Kyiv, Lviv, Kramatorsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia, and were focused on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on women and on gender violence faced by women in Ukraine.
KYIV – Ukraine issued a third round of sanctions imposing asset and property freezes on 10 former high-ranking officials in law enforcement, security and the military for violating their oaths during Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea.
KYIV – The seventh anniversary of Russia’s seizure of the Ukrainian territory of Crimea passed on February 27 as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a number of measures and announced the creation of an international platform to free the peninsula and protect the rights of Crimean Tatars.