KYIV, April 2 - The Metinvest mining and metallurgical group intends to build a plant in Piombino in the Italian region of Tuscany as one of the most technologically and environmentally advanced of its kind, which will become a pilot for our future investments of the company in Ukraine, Metinvest CEO Yuriy Ryzhenkov said in an interview with La Repubblica, one of Italy's largest newspapers. The new plant in Piombino will produce "green steel." | More

KYIV, April 1 – More than 63% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that "everyone who has stained themselves by collaborating with the enemy in temporarily occupied territories should be imprisoned without exception," and only 12% disagree with this. | More

KYIV, April 1 – Public sentiment in the third year of the full-scale Russian invasion is shifting towards more pessimistic assessments of the present and future of Ukraine. | More

KYIV, April 1 – For the first time in years of observation, the number of respondents who believe that to ensure its own sovereignty and territorial integrity, Ukraine must restore its nuclear potential has exceeded 50%. | More

KYIV, April 1 – Ukraine's Ministry of Finance received $118 million on a non-refundable basis from Japan as part of the World Bank's Health Enhancement And Lifesaving (HEAL) Ukraine Project and Housing Repair for People's Empowerment Project (HOPE). | More

KYIV, April 1 – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that attacks on Russian refineries are a response to attacks on the Ukrainian energy system. | More

KYIV, March 29 – The latest intensive attacks by the Russian aggressor on the energy system, Ukraine has lost 10-12% of the generating capacity available at the time of the first attack on March 22, said Oleksandr Kharchenko, director of the Energy Industry Research Center (EIR Center). | More

KYIV, March 31 - A Russian cruise missile strike on infrastructure in Ukraine’s western Lviv region killed one man, while another died in an attack in the northeast, officials said Sunday. | More

KYIV, March 29 – The Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) of Ukraine, carried out by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of the third review of the EFF program, assumes partial debt write-off to achieve such sustainability, so it is likely that such write-off will be one of the items expected in the near future of Ukraine's proposal to restructure eurobonds, according to analysts interviewed by the Interfax-Ukraine agency. | More

PARIS, March 31 - French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said France is to deliver “hundreds” of armored vehicles by the beginning of next year to Ukraine as part of a new package of military aid for the country that just entered its third year of war since the full-scale Russian invasion. | More