Two unidentified men opened fire on a car of FC Dynamo Kyiv football player Denys Harmash in the city of Kyiv on Tuesday, December 5, reportedly because of gambling debts, according to the online newspaper INSIDER, referring to its source in law enforcement agencies.
Serhiy Marchenko, Deputy head of the Ukrainian Finance Ministry, which is responsible for forming the state policy on lotteries, as well as a relevant regulatory framework, says that the country's lottery market today is virtually uncontrollable, according to Apostrophe, a Ukrainian news outlet.
Ukraine’s government has promised to start earning increased revenue from legal gambling by next year, according to the Ukrainian government's letter of intent to IMF chief Christine Lagarde, detailing the country’s plans to reform its economy in order to qualify for $17.5 billion in financial assistance, according to CalvinAyre.