During the traditional festival “Ukrainian watermelon is a sweet miracle” held in Gola Prystan, Kherson region, farmers presented a giant watermelon that weighs 43 kilograms and 100 grams (the largest in the history of the festival! ), a melon that weighs 7.9 kilograms and a 53.4 kilograms pumpkin.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has signed a decree amending the list of activities to mark the 20th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence.

Dnipropetrovsk is no longer a city with a population of 1 million inhabitants. As of March 1, 2011, a permanent population of Dnipropetrovsk is not more than one million people, according to the report of the Main Statistical Office.

Kyiv Metro Station “Republican Stadium” or “Resbublikansky Stadion”, which is located by the Olympic Stadium will be renamed to avoid confusion among tourists and visitors of the city. Alexander Briginets, the Chairman of the Committee of the Kyiv City Council has reported about it.

British company The Economist Intelligence Unit, while comparing the environmental situation in 30 capitals of European nations, did not give the Ukrainian capital a single point out of possible 10. Thus, Kyiv topped the list of the most polluted European capitals.

Ukraine intends to introduce to the European Union a national plan of actions for liberalization of the visa regime in Brussels (Belgium) on April 5, 2011

On Friday, 24th of March at 10 in the morning, a partial collapse of a brick wall on the eighth floor of the hotel “Kozatsky” (Mala Zhytomyrska Street, built in 1983), killed a young man, who was smoking while waiting for the bus on the sidewalk near the hotel building right in the center of the Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Maidan Nezalezhnosti.

On Sunday, March 27th, the so-called “Daylight Saving Time” will be introduced on the territory of Ukraine at 3 pm Kyiv time. All clocks have to be adjusted forward one hour, so we will “lose” …

Established at the beginning of each year by Irish magazine International Living, the Quality of Life Index 2011 ranked Ukraine 73d internationally, a slot it shares with South Africa, Botswana, Tunisia, the Dominican Republic, Morocco, Namibia, as well as Trinidad and Tobago.

First Ukrainian budget airline Wizz Air Ukraine is going to relocate their base from Kyiv Boryspil airport to Kyiv Zhulyany airport.
Starting from 27 March, 2011 Wizz Air Ukraine will operate from the airport “Kyiv” (Zhulyany). Executive Vice President of the Group Wizz Air John Stephenson announced about that at a press conference on the 14th of January, 2011.