{"id":792213,"date":"2026-07-29T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/792213\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:08:08","slug":"ukraine-news-today-breaking-updates-live-coverage-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/792213\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine News Today: Breaking Updates &#038; Live Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-lead mb-2\">Ukraine\u2019s government has approved a bill that would end value-added tax (VAT) exemptions for imported goods bought through foreign marketplaces. Authorities say the move could bring in more than Hr. 10 billion (roughly $223.3 million) a year and would not take effect before 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian government has approved and submitted a bill to parliament, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/topic\/verkhovna-rada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Verkhovna Rada<\/a>, that would change how imported goods, brought through foreign online marketplaces, are taxed.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Koretskyi_official\/84\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Wednesday, July 29, by Ukraine\u2019s recently appointed Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky, who said that the bill would align the country\u2019s tax rules with EU standards, as Ukraine continues its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/post\/80848\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">path toward EU membership<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s government has approved a bill that would end value-added tax (VAT) exemptions for imported goods bought through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-792213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}