The State Bank is now issuing interest-free loans to Ukrainians who buy electric cars:
Video from a march held today in Cherkassy to mark the third anniversary of the conflict in Donbas and to honor those who have died in the fighting.
A Belarusian suspected of aiding the separatists in eastern Ukraine is detained in Odesa:
A report on the destruction done by fighting at a cemetery in Donetsk:
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has slammed the organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest for dropping Russia's entry due to a travel ban by Ukrainian officials, AFP reported on April 14. Russian singer Yulia Samoilova was barred from travelling to this year's event in Kyiv because she had performed in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014. Eurovision officials had sought to have Samoilova perform via video link from Russia or be replaced, but Russia refused those offers.
Rinat Akhmetov, one of Ukraine's wealthiest people, said on April 14 that he will defend his interests in Ukrtelecom, one of the country's major telecom companies, one day after a Kyiv court froze Akhmetov's shares, AFP reports. Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko said on April 13 that Akhmetov had acquired his Ukrtelecom shares for a nominal price from the government of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.