A memorial plaque was unveiled at the Holy Yur Ensemble on the wall of the Metropolitan Palace, where the pontiff lived in June 2001. That visit was not only spiritual—in Lviv, John Paul II declared 27 martyrs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church blessed before an audience of one and a half million people.
Fire Point company has completed the first flight tests of the FP-7 and is approaching test launches of the FP-9 with a range of 855 kilometers. But between "flies" and "strikes" lies a bureaucratic route that the state is already trying to shorten.
Political analyst Oleg Lisny breaks down three signals indicating a rift between the Kremlin's public statements and the actual state of affairs: exaggeration of military advances, the failure of negotiations in Anchorage, and fuel shortages within Russia.
iOS 18.5 has opened APIs for third-party smartwatches under pressure from European regulators. Amazfit has already seized the opportunity. Apple Watch is no longer a monopolist on its own platform — at least in Europe.
The Bank for International Settlements warns: hyperscalers are financing AI infrastructure through opaque structures that remain off-balance sheets. If profitability disappoints, the crisis could spread far beyond Silicon Valley.
By a 5-4 vote, the court refused Trump the right to remove a member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, whom the president is attempting to fire for the first time in the central bank's 111-year history. However, the final word has not yet been spoken.
Microsoft's market capitalization fell by $530 billion in June 2025 — the worst month since 2008. But the real problem isn't the size of AI spending, but rather who it has been made for.
From July 1, a 45 UAH delivery surcharge for villages served by mobile branches will be eliminated — the tariff will be equalized with urban rates. At the same time, courier delivery will increase by 5 UAH due to rising fuel costs.
The US and Iran agreed to suspend strikes and resume talks in Doha on June 30 — following another round of escalation that threatened the memorandum signed just two weeks earlier.
Paris has prepared a document with radical options for reforming the EEAS, including the possibility of completely abolishing the service. Behind the scenes of this process lies another story: the European Commission has been systematically narrowing the space for external policy under Kaja Kallas for years.
This year, the Apostles' Fast lasted only two weeks — significantly less than it did in the past. This was the result of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church switching to the new Julian calendar, which changed not only the dates but also the logic of fasting.
Apple is increasing the base RAM in iPhone 18 and 18e to 9GB to support Apple Intelligence — but iOS 27 has already raised the bar for the most powerful local AI features to 12GB. The upgrade is a step forward, but it falls short of the new minimum requirements.
Over eight months, more than 210 million hryvnias passed through the accounts of five shell companies — with each transaction allegedly generating 0.15% commission for the banker personally. The investigation states that the scheme was sustained by an agreement between the bank's head and the businessman, confirmed by their correspondence.
Ukrenergo has recorded a sharp increase in electricity consumption due to the heat wave and is calling on consumers not to switch on powerful equipment in the evening — that is when the power system is most vulnerable.
# LNG Tanker Arctic Express Loads Gas From Sanctioned Saam Storage Near Murmansk The LNG-tanker Arctic Express has for the first time loaded gas from the subsanctioned Saam storage facility near Murmansk following a flag change to Russian and transfer to St. Petersburg-based company SMP Techmanagement. This is part of a system that Novatek is building to sell Arctic LNG 2 despite U.S. and EU bans.
# Estonia's Foreign Minister Calls Ukrainian Drone Incidents "Acceptable Price" for Strikes on Russian Oil and Military Bases Estonia's Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna has called incidents involving Ukrainian drones on NATO territory an acceptable cost for strikes against Russian oil facilities and military bases — and accused Moscow of deliberately directing damaged drones toward NATO countries.
The SBU prevented a car bomb attack on a military officer on Maidan Square — not through intelligence work, but thanks to a GPS tracker on the victim's vehicle. Behind this case lies a systemic recruitment scheme based on promises of "easy money."
Systematic attacks by Ukrainian drones on oil refineries have reduced gasoline production in Russia by 25% — Moscow has officially confirmed for the first time the connection between strikes and the fuel crisis.
"Slavyansk-EKO" accounts for 9% of oil refining in the Southern Federal District and is the main fuel hub for occupied Crimea. The strike in the night of June 28 is the fourth in two years.
After signing a memorandum on June 17 and negotiations in Switzerland, the United States has twice struck Iran in response to attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump threatened to "completely finish the job."
# Trump hints at abandoning "Anchorage agreements" at G7 summit, but Rubio denies deal existed At the G7 summit in Evian, Trump hinted to allies that he might abandon the so-called "Anchorage agreements" — concessions to Moscow regarding Donbas. The problem is that Secretary of State Rubio has already stated: there were no agreements in Alaska.
# Ukraine's Constitution at 29: Most Citizens Can't Distinguish Between Rights and Restrictions Twenty-nine years ago, lawmakers adopted the country's fundamental law following a continuous all-night session. Today it limits some rights and guarantees others — but most Ukrainians cannot tell the difference between the two.
160 MW of batteries and 9 MW of gas generation will be distributed across six sites throughout Ukraine — to ensure that a single missile strike cannot disable the entire system. The total budget for this phase is over 90 million euros.
At the reconstruction conference in Gdańsk, Klitschko met with the leadership of Pesa Bydgoszcz — the discussion now covers not only new trains, but also localization of assembly and a service center directly at the Kyivpastrans facility.
On the night of June 28, drones struck the Slavyansk oil refinery in Krasnodar and a plant in Yaroslavl — the second strike as part of a newly announced operation to pressure Moscow. Crimea has already restricted fuel sales to civilians.
On June 26, near the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Crimean Tatar flag for the first time took its place among the official flags of the state. The Soviet authorities persecuted Crimeans for preserving this banner during 1944–1991.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has publicly warned that Russia may stage a false-flag attack on its own territory to obtain a formal pretext for striking an alliance member country. He cited the Nazi provocation that triggered World War II as a historical precedent.
Agricultural holding "Volyn-Zerno-Product" has opened a new seed processing line with a capacity of 12 tons per hour based on its existing elevator complex. This is not a startup from scratch — it is scaling up the vertical integration of the company, which processes 52 thousand hectares across four regions.