The agreement, signed on April 30, establishes a joint investment fund between Kyiv and Washington and grants the U.S. special access to projects developing Ukraine's natural resources.
Ukraine is considering moving away from the U.S. dollar and closer to the euro as a benchmark for the hryvnia, National Bank Governor Andrii Pyshnyi told Reuters.
The Atesh partisan group claims it disabled communication at several Russian military facilities when it allegedly destroyed equipment at a transformer substation in the village of Mogiltsy in Russia's Moscow Oblast.
Maryna Aleksiiva and Vladyslava Aleksiiva of Team Ukraine compete in the Duet Technical Routine on day 14 of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Aquatics Centre on Aug. 9, 2024 in Paris, France. (Clive Rose/Getty Images)
Maryna and Vladyslava Aleksiiva, twin sisters representing Team Ukraine in artistic swimming, won fifth place in the duet final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 10.
The pair performed in the technical program on Aug. 9 and the free swimming program on Aug. 10, finishing fifth overall. The Aleksiiva sisters are Ukraine's only athletes competing in artistic swimming at the Paris Games.
Ukraine previously won a bronze medal in the event at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, with Anastasiia Savchuk and Marta Fiedina representing the national team.
The Aleksiiva sisters scored a total of 538.6684 points in the Paris final. The gold medal went to China's Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi, with 566.4783 points.
Great Britain's Kate Shorman and Isabelle Thorpe took silver, while the Netherlands' Bregje and Noortje de Brouwer won the bronze medal.
The Aleksiivas have described the difficulties of training for the Olympics during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. Their training center is near a tank factory in Kharkiv frequently targeted by Russian attacks, the sisters told CNN.
"It really influenced our training in a bad way, both mentally and physically, the fact that we could not train like other countries in normal conditions," Maryna Aleksiiva said.
Ukraine is currently ranked 21st in the Paris Olympics, with three gold medals, five silver, and four bronze.
Abbey Fenbert is a senior news editor at the Kyiv Independent. She is a freelance writer, editor, and playwright with an MFA from Boston University. Abbey served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine from 2008-2011.
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