There are no plans to introduce value added tax for sole traders in Ukraine.

Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada’s Human Rights Commissioner, has spoken of a humanitarian disaster in the occupied city of Oleshky and called for international missions to be granted access and for the Russian Federation’s crimes to be documented.

On the night of 18–19 April 2026, operatives from the ‘Prymary’, a special unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, carried out successful strikes in the temporarily occupied Crimea against two large landing ships belonging to the aggressor state of Russia – the Project 775 landing ship "Yamal" and Project 1171 landing ship "Nikolai Filchenkov".

Russian occupiers are reportedly advancing in the Sumy region, near two settlements, and also near Donetsk region.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy heard a report from Interior Minister Klymenko on the investigation into the shooting in Kyiv.

On the night of 20 April, drones attacked a seaport and an oil refinery in Tuapse, in the Krasnodar Krai region of the Russian Federation. A major fire broke out at the site of the attack.

Following the terrorist attack in Kyiv, Yevhen Zhukov, head of the Patrol Police Department, has resigned.

Since the start of the day on 19 April 2026, 84 combat engagements have been recorded on the front line.

An internal investigation has been launched following instructions from Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko regarding the actions of patrol officers at the scene of a shooting in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv.

On the night of Saturday, 18 April 2026, explosions were heard in Taganrog, Russia (Rostov region), as the city came under rocket attack.