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Ukraine's space science advanced rapidly in the aftermath of World War II, with Korolyov and Chelomey leading the rocket and spaceflight development in the Soviet Union during the Space Race. Ukraine was ranked 60th in the Global Innovation Index in 2024, down from 57th in 2023, and 49th in 2021.
Researchers at the American cybersecurity firm Mandiant report that the Belarusian government has ties to the hacker group Ghostwriter, which was accused of targeting various German politicians and ministries in September and has since been accused of launching misinformation campaigns against multiple countries, including Ukraine. [52]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers in healthy condition in Kursk Oblast, Russia, for the first time since North Korea entered the war, as the two previous North Korean prisoners of war died of their injuries shortly following their capture.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine has resulted in 5,541,489 [1] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 109,925 [1] deaths.. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Ukraine when the country's first case was confirmed to be hospitalized in Chernivtsi Oblast on 3 March 2020, [3] a man who had travelled from Italy to Romania by plane and then arrived in Ukraine by car. [4]
Nearly three years into the war, Washington has committed $175 billion in aid for Ukraine, but it is uncertain if the aid will continue at Biden reaffirms support for weapons surge to Ukraine ...
In 2021 new infections and deaths started to break records by late October. [15] [16] By then a total of 2.8 million coronavirus cases and 64,936 COVID-19 related deaths had occurred in Ukraine. [16] Vaccination against COVID-19 in Ukraine started on 24 February 2021. [17] Ukraine uses vaccines from four different manufacturers. [6]
Ukraine's national parks and reserves are a part of pan-European chain of protected sites called the Emerald Network that are home to many endangered species. [33] Preliminary assessment shows that more than 1.24 million hectares (3.1 million acres) of protected sites in Ukraine (that is, more than a third) were affected by war. [81]
A study reports that excess mortality data suggests that between Jan 1, 2020, and Dec 31, 2021, ~18.2 million people died worldwide because of the COVID-19 pandemic (compared to 5.94 million reported deaths). It notes that further research could help distinguish the proportions directly caused by COVID-19 from those caused by indirect ...