Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Kistion says that the Cabinet of Ministers has decided to allocate UAH 800 million for the construction of Lviv-Odesa-Mykolaiv highway.
Security Service (SBU) agents have uncovered a Russian saboteur network in the country’s southern city of Odessa and arrested nine men with Ukrainian passports.
Odesa customs in five days of its work in March fulfilled a monthly income plan, which indicates that corruption has been eliminated there, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said at a conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
A lawmaker from the political bloc supporting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has gone missing and is presumed kidnapped, officials say. Larysa Sarhan, a spokeswoman for the Prosecutor-General's Office, said that Verhovna Rada Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko of the Poroshenko Bloc was abducted by unknown individuals on February 23 in the Black Sea port city of Odesa.
Head of the supervisory board of Odesa port-side chemical plant Serhiy Pereloma and first deputy head of the enterprise Mykola Schurikov have been detained within the case of embezzlement of the funds of Odesa port-side chemical plant, Head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office Nazar Kholodnytsky has said at a briefing in Kyiv.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has been conducting house searches in Odesa of three activists of the political movement "Kulykove field", Ukrinform agency reports.