All news on the topic: Kyiv

05 May 2025 983

Transcontinental cocaine trafficking ring leader from Honduras arrested in Kyiv

Authorities arrest an alleged Ukrainian ringleader behind a transcontinental cocaine trafficking scheme involving shipments from Honduras to Kyiv.

World

24 Apr 2025 840

Russia attacks Kyiv: 9 killed, over 60 injured, including children

Russian invading forces attacked Kyiv and the region overnight on Thursday, April 24, using "Shahed" type strike UAVs, as well as "Kalibr" cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. In the Sviatoshynskyi district of the capital, a residential building was partially destroyed, with reports of nine dead and 63 injured, including children and a pregnant woman.

Investigation

15 Apr 2025 801

“Kyiv for the chosen”: How Artur Palatnyi built a shadow power vertical in the capital

A person without a position in the administration, without publicity, but with full control, journalists indicate.

World

12 Mar 2025 851

Russian missiles hit Ukraine just hours after 30-day truce announced

Russia has launched a large-scale air attack on Kyiv overnight - just hours after Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to an immediate 30-day ceasefire.

Investigation

11 Mar 2025 802

Artur Palatnyi – the financial mogul of Kyiv’s organized crime group "Udar": When will he be held accountable for embezzlement in the Ukrainian army?

In Ukraine, from time to time, corrupt officials and politicians are declared wanted, having previously been allowed to leave the territory of Ukraine without hindrance, correspondingly, with stolen money.

Politics

28 Feb 2025 790

Minister warns we’re in ’dangerous and uncharted waters’ after Trump attack on Zelensky

Trade Minister Douglas Alexander described Volodymyr Zelensky as ’probably the bravest political leader in Europe since Winston Churchill’ and stated that only Putin would benefit from Trump’s actions.

Politics

24 Feb 2025 584

Boris Johnson advocates for Donald Trump’s minerals deal with Ukraine

Former British prime minister comments on the proposed deal: “Yes, it’s extortionate when viewed in one way, but so was Lend-Lease in 1941, wasn’t it?”

Politics

17 Feb 2025 745

Ukraine will not take part in Russia-US talks, Zelenskyy states from the UAE

The Ukrainian leader stated that he will be in Turkey while Russia and the US hold talks in Riyadh.

Investigation

15 Feb 2025 619

Ukrainian judge Roman Boyko helped sanctioned oligarch Ihor Naumets retain property for $500,000

On October 30, the Commercial Court of Kyiv city with a decision by Judge Roman Boyko prohibited the State Service of Geology and Subsoil of Ukraine...

Investigation

13 Feb 2025 755

Kyiv playboy Vitaliy Hrechyn arranged a "nude" photoshoot in Dubai: what lies behind his escort business and connections with MPs?

Vitaliy Hrechyn from Kyiv found himself among those detained in Dubai for a photoshoot of nude girls on a hotel balcony. It is believed that he organized the trip.

Politics

12 Feb 2025 911

Zelenskyy refutes the assertion that Boris Johnson discouraged him from seeking a peace deal in 2022

Ukraine’s president states that the British PM was not involved in the decision not to pursue a deal with Russia.

World

06 Feb 2025 863

Prostitution scandal in Kyiv: Ukrainian political analyst Oleksiy Holobutskyi named as alleged brothel organiser

In the Darnytskyi District Court of Kyiv, the case concerning the wife of the "European Solidarity" political scientist Oleksiy Holobutskyi — Nataliya Holobutska and her sister Dariya is ongoing.

Investigation

02 Feb 2025 727

Kremlin-run bot network uses fake websites to disseminate articles predicting a ’catastrophe’ for Europe after U.S. cuts aid to Kyiv

The Kremlin’s “Doppelgänger” bot network has launched a campaign to spread pseudo-journalistic articles claiming that the decision of newly sworn in U.S. President Donald Trump to freeze aid programs for Ukraine is the right move...

World

16 Jan 2025 644

During Keir Starmer’s visit, Putin launches drone bomb attacks on Kyiv

Vladimir Putin timed the latest bombardment on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv for Sir Keir Starmer’s visit.

Politics

16 Jan 2025 810

Keir Starmer to sign historic 100-year pact with Ukraine during Kyiv talks with Zelensky

Sir Keir Starmer says there are “unbreakable bonds” between the UK and Ukraine — as they sign a 100-year deal today.

Investigation

09 Nov 2024 650

Vadym Stolar, Artem Kolyubayev and the Mekhtiyev brothers push luxury high-rise, threatening the Museum of Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture

Vadym Stolar, a close associate of Medvedchuk, invests the funds of defrauded investors from Ukraine into the construction of luxury housing in Dubai.

Investigation

31 Aug 2024 900

From Kyiv to Riga: Russian sabotage activities in the Baltics

What began as a typical day for a Latvian housewife turned into a major national security breakthrough. A mysterious note found in her driveway led authorities to uncover a series of sabotage acts connected to Russian intelligence.

World

11 Jul 2024 824

Horrified Russian pilot dobs in 30 fellow bombers after strike on children’s hospital

Shortly after the bombing in Kyiv this week - which sent terrified children attached to drips fleeing for their lives - the mystery flier secretly contacted Ukraine’s security service

World

26 Jun 2024 872

War of attrition: Russia-Ukraine conflict escalates into a new phase

The recent Russian setback in Kharkiv marks the start of another period of stalemate in the Russia-Ukraine war.

World

04 Apr 2024 970

NATO ministers’ doubts, fears and eye-rolls over €100B Ukraine plan

Making military aid to Kyiv more predictable would send a message to Russia that it won’t win the war, said the alliance chief.

Investigation

24 Jun 2022 598

How Andriy Matyukha uses FavBet to take bets from Russians and operate for years without a license in Ukraine

The controversial betting company "FavBet," registered in Ukraine, continues to operate in the Russian market despite loudly declaring that it had exited the market.

Investigation

03 May 2021 566

Illegal clinic in Ukraine: How plastic surgeon Roman Levytskyi operated inside a Kyiv state hospital without contracts or a license

Plastic surgeon Roman Levytskyi caught the attention of our editorial team after a series of alarming reports from patients who claim he forced them into intimate relationships.

Investigation

18 Jul 2020 1252

An attempted $100,000 scam: prosecutor Sviatoslav Mazuryk was caught in a scheme involving Pavlo Shcherban and Alliance Bank

The financial institution, whose leaders’ ongoing criminal proceedings closure proposal in exchange for 100 thousand dollars was "caught" on June 4, 2020, by the prosecutor of the Kyiv Local Prosecutor’s Office No. 6, Sviatoslav Mazuryk, turned out to be the joint-stock company "Bank Alliance".

World

06 May 2020 641

Ex-owners of Veles Bank Kostyantyn Bondaryev, Iryna Honcharova and Oleksandr Kandyba win 105 million UAH lawsuit against the NBU

The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv upheld the lawsuit filed by the former shareholders of Veles Bank (Kostyantyn Bondaryev, Iryna Honcharova, Oleksandr Kandyba) and ruled to recover 105 million UAH from the NBU.

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