The 333 deaths highlighted a growing toll from a lack of preventive measures and public scepticism.

As Ukraine’s COVID vaccination campaign proceeds slowly, a new poll showed that a little more than half of Ukrainians want no part of any vaccination, a reluctance long predating the pandemic and deeply rooted in Soviet practice.

There can be no way of overstating the effect on Ukraine’s political affairs of the U.S. sanctions imposed on oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky – it is nothing short of a political earthquake.