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Two Ukrainian stories before the 2019 runoff
Summary
A Kyiv court ruling on PrivatBank and a security service claim about a captured hit squad framed the days before the vote.
What was happening in Ukraine on 19 April 2019, two days before a presidential election on 21 April? Two developments reported on 17 April set the backdrop.
The Kyiv District Administrative Court cancelled the nationalisation of PrivatBank. The ruling was issued on 17 April, four days before the vote.
On the same day, the Security Service of Ukraine claimed to have captured a Russian military intelligence hit squad. According to the agency, the group was responsible for the attempted murder of a Ukrainian military spy. The claim was made in the run-up to the election.
As reported at the time, both items belonged to the final stretch of the campaign.
