2020 in Ukraine

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Events in the year 2020 in Ukraine.

Incumbents[]

• President: Volodymyr Zelensky
• Prime Minister: Oleksiy Honcharuk (until 4 March), Denys Shmygal (from 4 March)

Events[]

Ongoing – War in Donbass

January[]

• 8 January – Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, a scheduled international passenger flight from Tehran to Kyiv, was shot down shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp, killing all 176 passengers and crew on board.^[1][2][3]

February[]

• 8 & 15 February – Ukraine was originally planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, after a year break, but the contest was cancelled.^[4][5]
• 18 February – Russian-backed separatists launched an attack near Krymske, Novoaidar Raion, Luhansk Oblast, attempting to overrun an entrenched Ukrainian position. The attack, the first of its kind in two years, killed one Ukrainian soldier and injured four others.^[6]

April[]

• 6 April – A series of wildfires began burning inside Ukraine's Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The fires were largely extinguished within two weeks and at least one suspect was arrested in connection with the event.^[7][8][9]

July[]

• 21 July – A hostage situation took place in Lutsk, Volyn Oblast when Maksym Kryvosh seized a BAZ A079 bus and barricaded himself and 13 passengers inside at the Teatralna Square. The crisis was eventually resolved with the release of the hostages and Kryvosh's arrest.^[10][11][12]

Predicted and scheduled events[]

• 10 November – 23 December – The 2020 Ukrainian Census, the first census in the country in over a decade, will be conducted by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.^[13]

Deaths[]

This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (July 2020)

Stanislav Bogdanovich

January[]

• 1 January – Aleksandr Manachinsky, swimmer (b. 1958).^[14]
• 30 January – Vitaliy Boiko, lawyer and diplomat (b. 1937).^[15]

February[]

• 3 February – Valentyna Shevchenko, politician (b. 1935).^[16]
• 4 February – Volodymyr Inozemtsev, triple jumper (b. 1964).^[17]
• 15 February – Mykola Bondar, figure skater (b. 1990).^[18]
• 28 February – Gennady Kuzmin, chess player (b. 1946).^[19]

March[]

• 6 March – Stanislav Bogdanovich, chess player (b. 1993).^[20]

July[]

• 30 July – , actress (b. 1967).^[21]

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