Good day, here are all the latest stories from the Kyiv Post news team..
All the latest updates and news from Ukraine today.
Good day, here are all the latest stories from the Kyiv Post news team..
The first tranche of $2.7 billion USD from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been transferred to the general fund of the state budget of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Ministry for Finance announced on April 3. This is an unprecedented loan – the first wartime loan the IMF has ever given in its 77-year history.
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❗️In #Donetsk Region, Russian troops shelled #Kurakhove community and the town of #Toretsk at night, killing two civilians, Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk RMA, reported.
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) April 4, 2023
📷: Telegram / Pavlo Kyrylenko pic.twitter.com/V2YcsvURAM
Ukraine has continued to deny claims from the head of Wagner that Russian forces have taken control of Bakhmut “in a legal sense,” claiming they are still “very far” from achieving anything remotely like it.
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Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, in a historic strategic shift provoked by Moscow’s war on Ukraine, which doubles the U.S.-led alliance’s border with Russia.
“President Putin went to war against Ukraine with a clear aim to get less NATO,” NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said.
“He’s getting the exact opposite.”
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Good morning from Kyiv.
Russia attacked the Odesa region overnight, with kamikaze drones. Fourteen were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses but one struck a commercial property. There are no reports of casualties at this time.
On a positive note, there are signs that life in Ukraine continues despite Russian aggression, authorities in Kyiv have announced the dates of the tulip season, three million of which will be publicly viewable in Dobropark from April 27.
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