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Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk says the government could allow the sale of agricultural land from October 2020, after parliament votes to lift the 18-year moratorium.

With winter approaching, Russia and Ukraine have held a third round of European Union-mediated talks in Brussels about the transit of Russian natural gas to Europe.

Billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskiy's recent meeting with the Ukrainian president and surprise public appearance at a high-profile Kyiv conference coincided with police raids and an attack on a key opponent, as well as reports of a deal with the country's government, sparking questions about his possible influence in the capital.

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The former governor of the National Bank of Ukraine has been invited to the United States to address lawmakers after she was nearly run over and her home set ablaze.

The United States has accused Moscow of using “sham organizations” to promote its “spurious claim” that Ukraine’s Crimea region is part of Russia during an annual human rights conference of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

An elite Ukrainian police unit detained a 42-year-old man who fired shots from his car and threatened to blow up a bridge where he disrupted rail and vehicle traffic during rush hour in Kyiv on September 28.

In the aftermath of Kharkiv’s first gay-pride parade, one incident stands out for its harrowing violence and the way it was stopped -- by a veteran photojournalist.

A deputy chief of the Kyiv City State Administration (KMDA) has been hospitalized in "serious" condition after being assaulted by an unidentified attacker.

Facebook says it has deleted 168 accounts, 149 pages, and 79 groups based in Ukraine for "coordinated inauthentic behavior," its head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said in a September 16 statement.

My friend Tino Valdi, who has died aged 90, was a singer and member of Bruce Forsyth’s variety touring show in the late 1950s and once shared the bill with Max Miller. Known as “a new voice from Italy”, he appeared on many radio and television programmes throughout the 60s and 70s, as well as in concert halls at home and abroad. Heperformed on two transatlantic liners, the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary, and recorded six albums.

Tino was born Volodymyr Luciw in Nadvirna in Ukraine to Gabriel, a butcher, and his wife, Yulia. When he was a teenager during the second world war, Ukraine was invaded by the Nazis and he was deported to Germany as a slave labourer. He remained in the country after the war and met a fellow Ukrainian, the musician Hryhory Nazarenko, who encouraged him to play the bandura, their homeland’s national instrument, in his Bandurist Leontovych Capella group.

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Chris Doyle responds to the news that Benjamin Netanyahu intends to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank

Back in 2014, Russian forces entered Crimea and the peninsula was annexed. The reaction of Britain and other EU states was clear and immediate. Sanctions were imposed on Russia in a decision that most saw as reasonable and appropriate, upholding the longstanding sacred principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory through war.

The Israeli prime minister has now promised to annex huge swathes of the occupied West Bank, including the Jordan Valley and settlements (Report, 11 September). Israel should receive precisely the same response as Russia got, if it goes down this reckless path. It cannot expect to have a business-as-usual relationship while stealing land belonging to another people. It is time for EU leaders, including Britain, to make this abundantly clear.
Chris Doyle
Director, Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding)

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Case could embarrass Vladimir Putin and prompt Ukrainian demands for reparations

The Russian state directed and ran the military coup in Crimea and its subsequent annexation in 2014, Ukraine has told the European court of human rights.

The case in Strasbourg is one of a series brought by the Ukrainian government designed to expose alleged Russian state complicity in human rights abuses. It has the potential to embarrass Vladimir Putin and lead to Ukrainian demands for reparations from Russia.

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