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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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported strikes on two oil depots, a positional area of the Bastion coastal missile system in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as well as enemy materiel and weapons depots on temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory.

"On the night of April 8, units of Ukraine’s Defence Forces struck oil depots in Feodosia, where a fire broke out, and Hvardiyske in the temporarily occupied AR Crimea… Among other things, our soldiers struck an electronic intelligence station near Novoozerne and the positional area of the Bastion coastal missile system near Sofiivka in temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea," the General Staff’s Telegram post reads.
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Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Taras Kachka states that Hungary was not opposed to providing Ukraine with benchmarks (criteria) for the last three negotiating clusters on accession to the European Union.

"On March 17, we were given the second set of benchmarks for sections [Clusters] 3, 4, and 5… It’s very interesting that Hungarian Minister for European Affairs János Bóka was present there on March 17 – not even as a specialist – and he didn’t say anything about them not supporting these benchmarks or anything like that. We believe he also joined in handing them over to us, although he spoke about other issues," Kachka told reporters on Wednesday, commenting on the laws passed by parliament this week.
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The volume of customs duty exemptions for imported goods in March 2026 amounted to UAH 33 billion, which is 32.2% (or UAH 8 billion) more than in March of last year, the State Customs Service of Ukraine reported on its Telegram channel on Wednesday.

According to the report, the amount of preferences provided amounted to 41.7% of the total volume of customs payments transferred to the state budget for the month (UAH 79 billion).
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Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko discussed the combat situation, supply, and needs of units with commander of the 1st Corps of the National Guard "Azov" Denys "Redis" Prokopenko, and also appointed new heads of the National Police and State Emergency Service in Donetsk region.

"Today I am working in Donetsk region. I introduced new heads of the regional directorates of the National Police and the State Emergency Service. Mykola Matviienko has been appointed to lead the Donetsk region police. Yakiv Nemykiv will head the regional SES directorate," the interior minister wrote on Telegram on Wednesday.
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The Slobidsky district court of Kharkiv has chosen a preventive measure for the suspect in the attack on a Territorial Center for Recruitment (TCC) serviceman (Part 3 of Article 350 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) that took place on April 6.

"He has been placed under round-the-clock house arrest for 60 days," the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office press service told an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent.
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Only 16% of local targeted programs for internally displaced persons have clear and measurable indicators, with key performance indicators (KPIs) absent even from the documents themselves, said Vitaliy Kulyk, head of the Disinformation Countermeasures Laboratory at Kyiv National Economic University (KNEU).

"What is the main problem with these targeted programs? First, that special programs work better than mere mentions of IDPs in general programs. Only 16% of local targeted programs have clear and measurable performance indicators. Meaning there are no KPIs even in the documents. In 54% of programs the indicators are formal and declarative in nature," Kulyk said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.
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The state-owned Oschadbank has claimed that the Hungarian National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) falsified a video released as evidence in a case involving the illegal retention in Hungary of the bank's funds and valuables seized in early March, the financial institution reported on its website.

"Oschadbank officially states that the published video was falsified: for publication to a Hungarian audience, it was subtitled in Hungarian and the phrase ‘corrupt money,’ which was missing from the audio track and on which NAV based its conclusions, was added," the bank said in on Wednesday.
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A court has chosen preventive measures for suspects involved in the attack on a judge in the city of Dnipro - remand in custody without the right to post bail, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported.

"At the request of a prosecutor from the Right-Bank District Prosecutor's Office of Dnipro, the court chose preventive measures for four suspects in the attack on a district court judge - remand in custody without the right to post bail for a period of 60 days," the prosecutor's office's Telegram post reads.
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Ukraine plans to attract EUR 5.4 billion in 2026 for the restoration, protection, and modernization of the energy sector, the Ministry of Energy announced on Wednesday.

"We have an ambitious goal of attracting EUR 5.4 billion (...) To this end, the Ministry of Energy is developing the 'Energy Rammstein' format, which brings a new level of speed and efficiency to interaction," the ministry noted.
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Budapest systematically used the issue of Hungarian minority rights to obstruct Ukraine's EU accession negotiations while coordinating its actions with Moscow, investigative journalism network VSquare.org reported on Wednesday, citing records of conversations between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó dating from 2023 to 2025.

"During their numerous phone calls, Szijjártó provided Lavrov with an invaluable stream of information about how the supposedly united Western coalition was preparing to increase pressure on Russia to stop its aggressive war. Hungary, as always, offered itself to Russia as something of a fifth column in Brussels: Szijjártó always sought to contact Lavrov and turn to him for advice (or permission) to take actions detrimental to the EU and Ukraine but highly beneficial to Moscow. As one intelligence officer noted… their relationship more closely resembled that of a spy and a field agent than that of two equal foreign ministers," the investigation's article reads.
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Logistics costs currently account for up to a third of the cost of bread due to the need for daily delivery to dozens of retail outlets and rising fuel prices, said Yuriy Duchenko, President of the All-Ukrainian Association of Bakers (AUB) and Director of Strategic Communications at Alviva Group (Kyivkhlib).

"Flour was once a key component, accounting for 60% of production costs. Today, it's only 35%. The industry is responding to rising costs by optimizing routes, introducing new logistics models, and using modern electric transport for transportation," he wrote on LinkedIn.
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One person was wounded and a State Emergency Service vehicle was damaged in an enemy attack on Zaporizhia district, regional military administration head Ivan Fedorov reported.

"Russians are striking civilians in Bilenke with FPV drones. They hit a private car driving down one of the streets. The vehicle was destroyed, a 58-year-old man was wounded. He is receiving all necessary medical assistance," Fedorov said on Telegram on Wednesday evening.
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