US President Donald Trump expressed confidence that through active United States participation in increasing traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, significant economic benefits will be achieved, and the region could experience a "golden age" of development.

According to him, Iran supports this process and seeks a peaceful resolution to the situation in the region.
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NABU and SAPO have completed the pretrial investigation into the case of Batkivshchyna faction leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who is suspected of offering an improper benefit to Members of Parliament of Ukraine.

"The investigation established that in December 2025, despite the discovery by NABU and SAPO of facts regarding MPs receiving bribes, the suspect began negotiating with individual parliamentarians on a system of rewards for loyal voting. It concerned a permanent cooperation mechanism with payments in advance. The people’s representatives were to follow instructions regarding voting (‘for’ or ‘against’), abstaining, or non-participation," the NABU press service reports.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have welcomed the agreement between the US and Iran to unblock the Strait of Hormuz and establish a ceasefire.

"I welcome the two-week ceasefire that the US and Iran agreed upon overnight. We express our gratitude to Pakistan for its mediation. Our task now must be to reach an agreement on a final end to the war. In this regard, we are in close contact with our partners," Merz wrote on X.
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Only Lviv, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Ternopil, and Donetsk regions, as well as the city of Kyiv, are currently maintaining records of mosaic works, regional administrations told Interfax-Ukraine.

In December 2025, Deputy Minister of Culture for Digital Development Anastasiia Bondar noted that the initiative for preserving mosaics must come from local communities. According to her, the state is responsible for preserving what is on its balance sheet and entered into relevant registers.
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A former first deputy minister of agrarian policy and food (now deputy minister of economy, ecology, and agriculture) and a former deputy minister of economy will stand trial for corruption in food procurement during the war, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) reports.

In a Telegram post on Wednesday, NABU noted that the top officials are accused of abuse totaling nearly UAH 64 million during the procurement of food products by JSC Ukrzaliznytsia to meet state needs under martial law.
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by Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Ma Shengkun

At a time when global environmental governance faces many challenges, Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, grounded in the laws governing the development of human civilization, provides in-depth answers to major theoretical and practical questions such as why an ecological civilization should be built, what kind of ecological civilization is to be built and how to build such a civilization.
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On Wednesday, April 8, at 15.00, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency will host a roundtable entitled "Index of Government Efficiency in Implementing IDP Support Policies."

Participants include:
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Ukraine and China are working to coordinate the timing of Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha’s visit to China, announced Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Heorhiy Tykhyi.

As reported by an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent, the spokesperson made the statement at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko held a meeting with Naftogaz Group CEO Serhiy Koretsky to discuss the current situation on global oil and petroleum product markets.

"We are recording a decline in quotations on major exchanges, which should directly affect fuel prices in Ukraine. The state-owned filling station network Ukrnafta has already responded and begun lowering prices. If current global trends persist, a more significant decrease is expected," Svyrydenko wrote following the meeting.
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On Thursday, April 9, at 12.00, a discussion entitled "Troop withdrawal from Donbas and Luhansk region: security guarantees or 'freezing' according to the Russian scenario?"

Participants: expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future and consultant to the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense Ivan Stupak, political expert and Candidate of Philosophical Sciences Oleksandra Reshmedilova and Vice-Rector of the European University and political expert Serhiy Yahodzinsky (8/5a Reitarska Street).
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Since the start of the full-scale war, 239 medical workers and patients have been killed and 955 injured as a result of 2,900 attacks on Ukraine’s healthcare system, Dr. Jarno Habicht, Head of the WHO Office in Ukraine, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

According to him, a 20% increase in the number of attacks on the healthcare system was recorded in 2025 compared to the previous year.
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The Verkhovna Rada has supported in the second reading as a whole draft law No. 14030 on the basic principles of state surveillance (control), which shifts the state surveillance system from a punitive to a partnership-based approach and forms part of the Ukraine Facility European integration package.

During the plenary session on Wednesday, April 8, 238 MPs supported the bill as a whole.
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Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Heorhiy Tykhyi has confirmed the readiness of the Ukrainian side for a so-called "Easter ceasefire," proposing a halt to fire and energy attacks.

As reported by an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent, the spokesperson made the statement at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
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Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Heorhiy Tykhyi has reported that work has already begun on opening the Ukrainian Embassy in Syria.

As reported by an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent, during a briefing in Kyiv, the spokesperson recalled the agreement to restore the operation of the embassies of Ukraine and Syria in Damascus and Kyiv, respectively.
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About 47,500 Ukrainian girls have already received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, according to Jarno Habicht, Head of the WHO Office in Ukraine.

"In 2026, Ukraine included the HPV vaccine in the national immunization schedule for girls aged 12-13. About 47,500 girls have already been vaccinated in the first months of the updated program. WHO supported the introduction of this vaccine into the national immunization schedule—this is the first addition to the schedule in nearly two decades," he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
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Based on materials from the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), a large batch of assemblies for Ukrainian armored vehicles, discovered without confirmed origin during an investigation into a Kyiv enterprise, has been transferred to the AFU, the SBU reports.

On its Telegram channel on Wednesday, the agency noted that this involves over 3,800 components for T-64 and T-72 tanks, as well as BMP-2 and MT-LB combat vehicles.
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US Vice President James David Vance believes that during the peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, the positions of the parties have converged significantly, and currently, the talks have moved to "haggling over a few square kilometers of territory in one direction or another."

"We have made significant progress. I mean, if you go back to where we were in the beginning where we couldn’t even get the Russians or the Ukrainians to put on paper, what is it that you want in order to settle the conflict? We’ve now gotten that. And we’ve got pieces of paper from the Ukrainians and pieces of paper from the Russians. We’ve actually got them to state their positions. And over time, their positions have gotten closer and closer together. Now, obviously, they’re not perfectly aligned because if they were, the conflict would be over," he stated, speaking at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest.
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Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Taras Kachka says there is no clear model for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union yet, but active discussion is underway.

"All this legislative work of the Rada is now bringing us very close to meeting the benchmarks… I hope the Rada will maintain this pace of approving EU-related bills. We have around 100 bills in parliament that to one degree or another close benchmarks," Kachka told journalists on Wednesday, commenting on laws passed by parliament this week.
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Ukraine exported 48,300 tonnes of wheat flour in July-March of the 2025-2026 marketing year (MY), which is 3% less than the same period last season, when supplies amounted to 49,800 tonnes, the Millers of Ukraine Association reported on Facebook.

The industry association noted that approximately 35% of the export structure went to EU countries, although in the previous season the European market share was significantly higher and reached 44%.
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