Political news from Kyiv region, government decisions and Ukraine politics
Damir Davidov managed the supply of missiles and artillery shells to the front — the same ones Russia uses to strike Ukrainian cities. His assassination in the same city where General Moskalik was killed a year ago is no longer a coincidence, but a pattern.
Hungary lifted its 17-month veto, and Ukraine received the start of negotiations. However, the actual pace of European integration depends not on the opening date, but on when Brussels agrees to close the first cluster — and this is a question without a current answer.
More than $3 billion from the forced sale of the club remains frozen — Abramovich is suing the British government, while Kyiv wants to redirect these funds to purchase air defense missiles through the PURL program.
Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya insists: Russia is not the legitimate successor to the USSR in the Security Council — and until this is challenged, the organization remains a hostage to the aggressor.
The Criminal Code provides severe penalties for public procurement fraud — up to 12 years with confiscation. But there is a vast gap between opening a case and issuing a verdict — one that statistics honestly document.
# Translation The Civic Contract party retained power amid record turnout and a surprisingly strong pro-Russian opposition bloc that collectively garnered 31%. While the mandate exists, a constitutional referendum that Baku demands as a condition for peace cannot be held without a two-thirds parliamentary majority.
At a meeting in Paris on January 6, the "coalition of the willing" adopted the Paris Declaration: multinational forces, American monitoring of a ceasefire, and commitments to arming the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, all mechanisms come into effect only after a ceasefire—which Moscow has not yet agreed to.
Poland's Foreign Minister Publicly Points Out Absurdity: If Parliament Supports Stripping Zelenskyy of the Order of the White Eagle, Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder — a Man Receiving Money from Putin — Will Remain a Recipient of Poland's Highest Honor.
Starmer, Macron, Merz, and Zelensky signed a joint statement outlining conditions for ending the war. The document consolidates Europe's position — but fails to address the main question: who and how will force Moscow to accept it.
Armenia's Central Election Commission has completed the vote count following parliamentary elections. The "Civil Contract" party received approximately 50% of the vote — enough to form a government without a coalition.
Yusov and the Foreign Ministry speak about the absence of direct military aid from China, but a Reuters investigation citing three European intelligence officials documents that approximately 200 Russian military personnel trained at Chinese military academies — with some of them already fighting in Ukraine.
Former U.S. Special Representative Kurt Volker describes an internal trap of the Kremlin: the continuation of hostilities destroys the very state that Putin claims to be protecting. Estonian military historian Yuri Kochnev believes that Russia has already passed the point of no return.
The vice president of the Armenian Business Council of Russia detained in Yerevan is not acting alone. According to Reuters, behind the scheme is a Kremlin plan worth up to $50 million and quotas across Russian regions.
On June 7, Russian aviation struck the settlement of Balabyne near Zaporizhzhia with a guided bomb — three civilians were killed in the area near a public transport stop. The same morning, the city came under another series of strikes targeting gas stations and railway infrastructure.
A unit of Middle-strike Special Operations Forces struck two key infrastructure facilities through which Russia supplies fuel to Crimea and other occupied territories. Both targets were located 200-250 kilometers from the front line.
The ombudsman named security guarantees and a housing program as the main prerequisites for mass return of Ukrainians. However, sociology records a different trend: the longer people stay abroad, the less they want to return.
On the night of June 7, a Russian drone struck the spent nuclear fuel storage facility near Chornobyl. The radiation threat was averted this time—by chance: no fuel was stored in the damaged building.
Floods on the Nişkov River in Prahova and Buzău counties have cut off several villages from the outside world — this is the second such incident in just a few months. The issue is not the rainfall, but the infrastructure.
Germany is pushing NATO to approve a €70 billion military aid package for Kyiv, but €30 billion of that is already an approved EU loan. The real question at the Ankara summit: who will contribute and how much new funding.
Russia's new ombudsman Lantratova agreed to monitor detention facilities where the most horrific conditions have been recorded. The problem is that similar promises have been made before — and never kept.
The DIA has raised the counterintelligence threat from Israel to its highest level for the first time. Under surveillance are the same American officials who are currently determining the terms of the Iranian nuclear agreement.
Armenia's Investigative Committee has detained six parliamentary candidates from the pro-Russian "Strong Armenia" bloc on accusations of money laundering and voter bribery. The Central Election Commission has refused to remove the party from the election.
# Retired General-Colonel Vladimir Bedrikovskiy Detained in Poland on Bribery Charges Retired General-Colonel of Internal Affairs Vladimir Bedrikovskiy — a former First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and a man long linked to corruption schemes — has been detained in Poland for attempting to bribe a government official. Polish prosecutors have ruled out espionage allegations but are withholding details of the case.
Russia Suffers Series of Air Strikes on Military Facilities and Oil Depot — in St. Petersburg, Kronshtadt and Other Regions. Timeline and Context.
The Foreign Ministry counted Ukrainians in China — and the figure says more about the relations between the two countries than any diplomatic statement.
The Ministry of Defense allocated 5 billion hryvnias to scale up the "Logistical Lockdown" program — and the initial figures show that pressure on Russian rear areas is genuinely increasing. The ISW confirms this.
The rejection of a 30-day ceasefire at the PMEF did not trigger a diplomatic crisis, but rather exposed a rift between the Kremlin's depiction of the front and reality — that's how the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under the NSDC interprets it.
At the SPIEF in St. Petersburg, Putin publicly reacted for the first time to an open letter from Ukraine's president: he refused a direct meeting, justified his age, and concluded his monologue with a call for occupiers to continue fighting.
Three hours of negotiations, five repatriated citizens and a declaration on verification of prisoner lists — with no external mechanism for monitoring compliance.
# On June 5, a Mercedes driver at high speed drove into a pedestrian zone and crashed into an underground passage — four people were killed on the spot, the driver was hospitalized. A week earlier, Kharkiv's deputy mayor hit a motorcyclist fatally and resigned from his position.