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Two police officers in Kyiv have been formally notified of suspicion over their actions during the mass shooting in the city on April 18, Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said. On April 20, prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko said that the two police officers had been charged with official negligence, a charge which could see them face up to five years in prison.
On April 18, 2026, a mass shooting took place in the Demiivka neighborhood of the Holosiivskyi District of Kyiv, Ukraine, when a man opened fire on his neighbours and passersby in the street before going inside a supermarket, where he took hostages before being shot and killed by the police in a shootout. Eight people, including the perpetrator, were killed, and 13 others were injured. Two Kyiv police officers were suspended after video allegedly showed them fleeing from Vasylchenkov rather than confront him as they were among a group of civilians. Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko described the actions of the officers as "shameful" and "unworthy behavior", and wrote that an investigation into them was underway.
The head of Ukraine's Patrol Police, Yevhen Zhukov, resigned in response to the video, stating that he believed it was "fair" due to the "shameful" actions of the officers. Ukraine's Attorney General Ruslan Kravchenko said the incident was being treated as an act of terrorism.
According to these estimates, unemployment in Ukraine increased to 15.5% in March 2026. Although official statistics are scarce, independent analyses reveal a volatile yet consistently elevated unemployment rate, peaking at 22.8% in late 2025. Despite optimistic forecasts from the National Bank of Ukraine regarding a gradual recovery, the market is currently defined by a stark contrast between a surplus of job seekers in frontline regions and a critical labour shortage in major hubs like Kyiv and Lviv, where vacancies significantly outnumber available workers.
Beyond general economic trends, the market exhibits deep structural and gender imbalances. Women now constitute 81 % of registered unemployed individuals, a shift largely driven by the mobilisation of men to the army, which has simultaneously forced women into traditionally male-dominated sectors A particularly alarming trend is the high rate of youth unemployment, with individuals under 35 making up over half of the unemployed population.
In 2025, real GDP grew by 1.8%. Most forecasts had expected a stronger outcome (the average estimate of non-government analysts was +2% in 2025). The weaker recovery reflected Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. "Even today, despite structural and persistent unemployment that exists, we have an unmet demand for labour.
By early 2026, after almost two years, the program had reached nearly 61,000 students and 32,000 teachers in frontline and border regions, surpassing its original goals. The "hard components" alone benefited more than 24,000 students in schools, kindergartens, and TVETs. During this time, 26 educational institutions were restored with modern shelters, 64 digital learning centers were opened, and over 19,000 computers and devices were provided to schools.
Accordingly, Ukraine's 2026 state budget is allocating Hr.1 billion ($23 million) to build shelters in preschool educational institutions. While many schools have shelters, there are still not enough of them – especially in kindergartens and other preschools. The Multi-Year Resilience Program (MYRP) continues to address educational needs during wartime.
The first semester lasts from September 1 to December 24, 2025, and the second from January 12 to May 30, 2026. Immediately after the end of the second semester, on May 29, the traditional last bell ceremony will take place. in grades 10–11 – the updated subject "Defense of Ukraine," which will include practical skills: first aid, use of drones, countering disinformation. The division of students into groups by gender will be abolished, and veterans and specialized teachers are planned to be involved in teaching.
"Ukraine has completed repair work on the section of the Druzhba oil pipeline that was damaged by a Russian strike," President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Zelensky said on Tuesday he expected the completed "repair work" on the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline running through his country would lead to the release of a much-needed 90-million-euro ($106m) European Union loan hitherto blocked by Hungary, which depends on the Russian oil.
European Union officials have said they expect progress this week on key dossiers regarding Ukraine and Israel after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose government had blocked the initiatives, was voted out of office. Orban's forthcoming departure opens the way for the bloc to release a 90-billion-euro ($106bn) loan to Ukraine and levy sanctions on violent Israeli settlers, officials said on Monday. The loan to Ukraine, desperately needed by Kyiv to maintain its defence against Russia's invasion, should be agreed on at a meeting on Wednesday, according to Cyprus, which holds the EU's rotating presidency.
Ukraine needs the EU funds to plug looming holes in its budget, but has managed to secure enough money from other backers in the meantime, while Hungary has stalled the loan. For its part, the Kremlin said on Tuesday Russia was technically ready to resume oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia if and when Ukraine ended what Moscow called its "blackmail".
The Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA) has approved the Technical Development Program of the Kyiv Metro for 2026. The Kiev metro will not receive a single carriage in 2026. According to the document, 9.9 billion hryvnias of capital investments should be allocated from the budget of Kiev in 2026. However, the budget includes only 2.1 billion hryvnias, and the rest of the funds were going to be allocated from the budget of the metro itself.
As of 2026, three lines are operational, with a total length of 67.6 km (42.00 mi). Total length: 69,648 km. It has 52 stations, 3 of which are underground interchanges. At a meeting of the Kyiv City Council's permanent commission on transport issues, it was announced that in 2026, only the main construction structures of the "Mostytska" station are planned to be completed. For 2026, funding is expected to increase to 1.8 billion hryvnias. The total cost of the project, according to experts, is estimated at 13.8 billion hryvnias.
Kyiv and the EBRD are negotiating a €150 million project to purchase new metro cars, aiming to modernize the city's public transport infrastructure by 2026. We hope for its successful implementation in 2026. The Vynogradar metro line opening has been delayed until 2027, requiring residents to wait longer for the new Mostytska and Prospekt Pravdy stations.
According to the company's analytical report, 2025 will be a year of quiet recovery without any sudden changes for Kyiv's primary residential real estate market. However, the second half of the year demonstrated a shift in sentiment: the number of transactions increased, and prices returned to a gradual increase (up 4.5% on average). As a result, 2025 ended with a moderate increase (+3.3%).
the first two buildings were commissioned in Q2 2021; the third building was planned for completion at the end of 2025, and the fourth is promised for commissioning in Q4 2026. Construction completion: Q4 2026; 2 buildings under c Several major projects are moving forward despite wartime conditions.
According to her, if current macroeconomic and security factors persist, 2026 has every reason to begin with a moderate price increase and a continued shortage of quality supply. "The market has already passed its nadir and is gradually entering a growth phase, where developer reliability, a well-thought-out concept, and the long-term value of a project will play a key role," Shyrina says. Demand in Kyiv's primary market largely remains "cautious" due to security risks, uncertainty around construction timelines, and constrained household incomes. At the same time, demand concentrates in projects with high trust in the developer, clear readiness/progress, and relatively strong locations.
The total combat losses of Russian forces from February 24, 2022, to April 22 2026 in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,321,450 personnel, including 1,140 over the past day. Since the beginning of the day, Russian forces have launched 194 attacks on the positions of Ukraine's Defense Forces, with the heaviest fighting concentrated in the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka sectors.
Ukraine's GUR military intelligence unit claimed attacks on two Russian landing ships and a radar station in Sevastopol Bay in Russian-occupied Crimea. It says the $150m vessels were successfully hit and radar equipment destroyed. Units of Ukraine's Defense Forces on April 20 and during the night of April 21 hit three ammunition depots and other logistics targets belonging to Russia in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and inside the Russian Federation.
Ukraine reported a series of Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory overnight, including in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy and Zaporizhia regions. Drones hit a car in the city of Putyvl in Ukraine's border region of Sumy, injuring three women, as well as two homes in Kyiv's Brovary district, damaging them and injuring one person, according to Ukrainian officials. Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 1,354 attacks on the Donetsk region, damaging 30 civilian facilities.
Sewage water samples from Kharkiv and Lviv showed 100 to 1000 times higher levels of heavy metals than considered safe. It is shown that samples from high urban and industrial regions have significantly higher levels of pollutants than in other cities. Compared to EU MPC levels, all studied locations except Kherson have samples with one or more metals that exceed the MPC level. While Kharkiv and Lviv remain the leading locations in terms of the number of pollution observations, Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv follow them closely.
In Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, and Khmelnytskyi regions – point-source pollution of agricultural and household origin, in Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Zhytomyr regions – more pronounced industrial pollution is also added. 80% of drinking water in Ukraine comes from surface sources, which are vulnerable to pollution and environmental depletion. Only 20% is taken from safer underground sources.
There is a very acute problem of nitrate pollution of well waters in the Kyiv region, which occurs due to the application of mineral and organic fertilizers, erosion of household landfills by precipitation, etc. "It is optimal to drink tap water that has been additionally purified. Preferably, it is purified with the help of special filters. Everyone who wants to live a little longer should further purify drinking water," advises Artem Shyra.