Ukrainian lawmaker and failed presidential candidate Serhiy Tyhypko told an audience at a metallurgical plant in central Ukraine that the country's economy has adopted a dangerous trajectory, according to Interfax:
"We have lost exports of machines, pipes, steel and chemical products.... Our exports of grain and ore have grown. Ukraine is slowly transforming into a resource-supplying appendage of Europe and the global economy," Tihipko said during a visit to the Interpipe Group metallurgical plant in Dnipropetrovsk on Thursday.
Russia's TASS quotes Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk suggesting that school curricula should reflect the country's war footing, particularly with respect to information warfare:
"Our weapon is knowledge, patriotism and Ukrainian spirit in each kindergarten, each school and each university," he said.
"Patriotic upbringing of Ukrainians must be placed just as highly as the knowledge of foreign languages, mathematics and physics, or even higher," he said.
Via TASS:
A monument to Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin has been dismantled in downtown Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine, in the third such incident over the past few days in the country, the local administration said on Thursday.