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Висока представниця ЄС із закордонних справ і політики безпеки Кая Каллас заявила, що позитивне рішення щодо позики Євросоюзу для України на 90 млрд євро очікується протягом наступних 24 годин. Заяву вона зробила 21 квітня після засідання Ради ЄС у закордонних справах у Люксембурзі.
Since April 2026, microfinance organisations have been able to integrate with ‘Diya’ to speed up customer identification. For borrowers, this means a shorter application process, but it also raises questions about the extent of access to personal data and new rules governing the credit market.
Anton Razumny, a member of the board of the state-owned PrivatBank, received a salary of 30.5 million hryvnias in 2025. On average, this amounts to 2.54 million hryvnias, or around 62,000 dollars, per month; and during the full-scale war, his annual income in this role increased sixfold, according to the figures cited in the publication.
TV presenter Tetyana Syvokha, the wife of the late showman and former MP Serhiy Syvokha, has died in Kyiv following a long illness.
On 22 April 2026, according to the new church calendar, Orthodox Christians commemorate Saint Luke. This day also falls during Holy Week, which lasts until 26 April and is dedicated to prayers for the departed
Philip Morris Ukraine topped the ranking of Ukraine’s largest private taxpayers in 2025. The top five also included the DTEK Group, BAT Ukraine, the Imperial Brands Group in Ukraine and ATB Corporation.
On 9 April 2026, the Verkhovna Rada adopted Bill No. 13705-d in its entirety, which simplifies the process of verifying insurance records for the purposes of pension awards and recalculations. The new rules are intended to assist people who have lost their documents due to the war, the destruction of archives, the closure of enterprises, or a lack of access to documents in temporarily occupied territories.
Ukrainian actor Oleksandr Rudynskyi has joined the cast of the Netflix feature film *Gundam*. The film stars Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo, and production has already begun in Queensland, Australia.
On 21 April, the High Anti-Corruption Court continued the questioning of MP Serhiy Labazuk, who is accused of attempting to bribe Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction Oleksandr Kubrakov and the head of the State Agency for Reconstruction, Mustafa Nayem. During the questioning, the MP presented his version of events, insisting that the decision to offer an unlawful benefit was the result of pressure from the established system of access to contracts.
Following the arrest of military personnel from the alert groups of the Peresyp District Civil-Military Coordination Centre and Joint Staff in the Odesa region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have launched an internal investigation. At the same time, the head of the Odesa Regional Civil-Military Coordination Centre and Joint Staff, as well as the head of the Peresyp District Civil-Military Coordination Centre and Joint Staff, have been suspended from their duties.
The Odessa Regional Recruitment and Social Support Centre has confirmed the detention of military personnel from one of the district recruitment and social support centres in Odessa. The centre stated that it is working with law enforcement agencies to establish the full circumstances.
Artem Bespalov, an officer in the mobilisation department of the Kharkiv Regional Territorial Centre for Recruitment and Social Support, has declared gold bars worth 2,154,300 UAH. This information is contained in his electronic declaration for 2025.
