What did 18 October 2018 mean for Ukraine?

What happened in Ukraine on 18 October 2018? It was a day when decisions on religion and air travel sat alongside grief over a mass killing the day before.

On 18 October 2018, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a decision to transfer St Andrew's Church to the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

On the same day, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it would allow American airlines to resume flights at three Ukrainian airports, in Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhia, and over parts of the Black Sea. The agency cited improved safety and security in parts of Ukraine.

The day also carried the aftermath of an attack on 17 October 2018 at a polytechnic college in Kerch, where a mass killing left 20 people dead and about 50 wounded.

Taken together, the reports from 18 October 2018 show a country handling decisions on church property and air links while the toll from Kerch was being counted.