Current events
President of Ukraine met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada
4 March 2020 - 13:58
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne. The Head of State thanked Canada and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau personally for the support official Ottawa provides to Ukraine.
President demands to convene an extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada
28 February 2020 - 20:21
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy submitted a letter to Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov demanding to convene an extraordinary session of the Parliament.
President of Ukraine and media groups agreed to launch non-coded satellite versions of major Ukrainian TV channels by March 16
28 February 2020 - 17:21
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a meeting with the leadership of major Ukrainian media groups.
President: We remember the names of the first victims from Crimea and do everything for the release of each of our people
26 February 2020 - 12:41
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed hope for the release of all illegally detained Ukrainian citizens, including Crimean political prisoners.
A large hub will be opened on the administrative border with the occupied Crimea to serve the citizens, and ATR channel will continue broadcasting - Volodymyr Zelenskyy
26 February 2020 - 12:21
The Ukrainian government must tell Crimeans what it is doing to protect them. Thus, it is very important to provide a broadcast on the temporarily occupied peninsula, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed during the opening of the Age of Crimea 2020 forum in Kyiv.
President of Ukraine declares February 26 the Day of Resistance to Occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol
26 February 2020 - 12:04
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the signing of a decree declaring February 26 the Day of Resistance to Occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges government representatives to visit mining towns to better understand the needs of the regions
25 February 2020 - 14:54
The Government should pay greater attention to the problems of the regions of Ukraine, in particular the mining towns, as stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his speech at the All-Ukrainian Meeting of Coal Industry Workers of Ukraine.
The term “mines observers” must disappear together with the phenomenon itself - Volodymyr Zelenskyy
25 February 2020 - 14:32
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has set a task to carry out full financial and personnel audit of state-owned coal enterprises shortly and to set up a coordination center for the transformation of the coal industry.
President: No mine can be eliminated until workers get another safe, well-paid job
25 February 2020 - 14:27
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stresses the need to create a National Coal Regions Fair Transformation Program, which will envisage re-training and new jobs for miners, address the issue of access to education for the children of miners, and set up services in mining towns.
Miners' wage arrears must be paid in the coming months - President
25 February 2020 - 13:50
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that one of the urgent problems of the coal industry was the wage arrears of the miners of the state mines, which should be paid in the coming months.