Current events
The release of National Guard Markiv is a victory of justice
3 November 2020 - 21:56
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomes the release of Vitaliy Markiv, a National Guard who was unjustly sentenced to 24 years in prison in Italy for the journalist's death. The President personally negotiated the release of Vitaliy Markiv with the leaders of Italy and requested to facilitate the retrial for a fair decision.
President of Ukraine and President of the Venice Commission agreed on the need to restore confidence in the judiciary, especially in the CCU
3 November 2020 - 16:23
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a telephone conversation with President of the Venice Commission Gianni Buquicchio. The Head of State thanked for the fruitful cooperation. In particular, the Venice Commission provided more than 150 conclusions and expert assessments on draft laws and laws of Ukraine on the judiciary, the Anticorruption Court, etc.
President of Ukraine and ICRC President discussed the issue of mutual release of detainees, search for missing persons and demining in Donbas
3 November 2020 - 15:11
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer. This happened a hundred days after the ceasefire agreements, which had a positive effect on the security situation in Donbas.
President: Preliminary work should be held in the coming months to reset the judiciary
3 November 2020 - 08:28
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy expects the renewed composition of the Commission on Legal Reform to work out proposals on judicial reform in the near future. The President stated this on ICTV’s Freedom of Speech on Monday.
The election of the new composition of the Constitutional Court should be transparent and open - President
3 November 2020 - 08:24
The election of the new composition of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine must take place on a competitive basis, transparently and openly. This was emphasized by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on ICTV’s Freedom of Speech.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: We will not move forward with this composition of the CCU
3 November 2020 - 00:13
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that the National Security and Defense Council's immediate reaction to the Constitutional Court's decision to abolish anticorruption infrastructure and the draft law on resetting the CCU submitted to the parliament deterred judges from making even more destructive decisions.
President called on the Servant of the People faction to support the reset of the CCU
2 November 2020 - 20:51
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy took part in a meeting of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada and discussed the need to reset the Constitutional Court with people's deputies.
At an extraordinary government meeting with the participation of the President, a decision was made to unblock the work of the NACP
29 October 2020 - 20:26
An extraordinary urgent meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers was held with the participation of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at which an order was adopted that will allow unblocking the activities of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP). An urgent meeting of the government was held in the Office of the Head of State to implement the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy chaired an urgent closed-door session of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on urgent measures to be taken by the state after the Constitutional Court ruled that certain provisions of the Law on Prevention of Corruption and Article 366-1 of the Criminal Code were unconstitutional.
The system of electronic declaration in Ukraine will work - Volodymyr Zelenskyy started an urgent meeting of the National Security and Defense Council
29 October 2020 - 17:48
An urgent closed-door session of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) began under the chairmanship of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on urgent measures to be taken by the state after the Constitutional Court ruled on the unconstitutionality of certain provisions of the Law on Prevention of Corruption and Article 366-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.