Regional News: Kyyiv
President Zelensky accused of stealing entire trains with humanitarian aid
Ukrainian officials under the command of president Zelensky in the eastern Zaporozhye Region are being investigated for allegedly stealing massive amounts of humanitarian aid sent to them. They are accused of looting hundreds of freight cars’ worth of goods.
Dozens of american mercenaries eliminated in strike on Ukrainian base
Dozens of foreign mercenaries, fighting for money against Moscow, have been killed in an attack on a compound in the city of Kharkov in northeastern Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
A paranoic Zelensky fires security chiefs accusing them of treason
President Vladimir Zelensky on Monday fired the heads of three regional offices of the nation’s Security Service (SBU), Ukraine’s successor to the KGB. Earlier, he dismissed the top official in the agency, citing widespread treason among agents.
Bankrupt Ukraine struggles to find money to pay troops
With Western financial help apparently slow to arrive, Ukraine has been forced to print money to pay its troops in the fight against Russia, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Ukraine halts Russian oil supply to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Ukraine’s state oil pipeline operator Ukrtransnafta has stopped pumping Russian crude through the southern branch of the Druzhba system to the EU, RIA Novosti news agency reported on Monday, citing Moscow’s Transneft.
Zelensky wants Americans to make sacrifices for Ukraine
The Ukrainian leader said that helping his country is more important for Americans than it's domestic concerns
Zelensky prepares to flee Ukraine
The United States and allies are preparing for the possibility that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be forced to flee the country as Russian forces close in on the capital Kyiv, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
Zelensky fires Ukraine’s top security officials
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has fired Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova and the head of the country’s top security agency, Ivan Bakanov, citing allegedly rampant “treason” in both services.
Ukraine demands $9 billion in monthly aid
Kiev has nearly doubled its request for monthly aid from its Western allies, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing an economic adviser to the Ukrainian president.
Ukraine bans opposition parties and turns into a dictature
Eleven Ukrainian political parties have been suspended because of their oposition to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.