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Two new political parties may emerge in Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities promised to provide housing for 600 Ukrainian military servicemen, who live on ships, a Russian citizen was fined RUB 200,000 for a repost on social networks.

The European Union with minimum debate has prolonged the economic sanctions against Russia. NATO is preparing to take at the upcoming Warsaw summit the new measures to deter the Kremlin's aggressive intentions. Ukraine’s former and sitting prime ministers both came into a spotlight in the global centers of influence. Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan went for the recovery of the Russian-Turkish relations.

Ex-Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (1991-1993), Ambassador Georgiy Kunadze in an interview with UNIAN has told about similarities in the Kremlin's decisions to deploy troops in Afghanistan in 1979 and in Ukraine in 2014, and why the Russian special operations in Crimea and Donbas were in fact failures.

The Head of State has found a good way to respond to yet another panicking message sprawling in the information space. After the U.S. visit, the prime minister is filled with the spirit of entrepreneurship and looks like the new sweetheart of the businesses. Order in ranks is not a strong feature of Ukraine’s opposition politicians regardless of their experience in this capacity.

Zero PACE deputies voted for giving back the right to the Russian delegation to attend the meetings; 51.9% of UK voters chose Brexit in the referendum; 376 candidates for posts of Ukrainian MPs will take part in mid-term elections to the Verkhovna Rada at seven constituencies.

The subject of the Donbas conflict settlement remains on the agenda of world leaders; moreover, it finds new reflections in Ukraine’s internal politics. The Ukrainian delegation to PACE has faced some unexpected challenges. Ukraine will have to digest Brexit as rationally as possible and learn from its lessons for the sake of its own foreign policy.

People’s Deputy of Ukraine, member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense Nadia Savchenko, who was recently released from Russian captivity, shared with UNIAN her view on the prospects for Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration and told us of her impression from taking part in the work of PACE and the Ukrainian Parliament

The return to Ukraine of Hennadiy Afanasyev and Yuriy Soloshenko hardly resembled the triumphal arrival of Nadia Savchenko. Petro Poroshenko and other top officials once again warned the world about the growing Russian threat. "A big fishing game" of Ukraine’s new prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko brings its first catch.

Two Ukrainian citizens wrongfully convicted in Russia – Yuriy Soloshenko and Hennadiy Afanasyev – were returned to Ukraine, 800 Ukrainian enterprises can be engaged in production of ammunition, UAH 217 million was saved at 16,400 tenders conducted over the last month thanks to a Prozorro e-procurement system.

Volodymyr Groysman has made his first overseas visit. Angela Merkel on behalf of not just Germany but of the EU has said when Ukraine and Georgia would receive a visa-free regime. The International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg carefully orchestrated as a site of Putin’s geopolitical triumph has failed to become such.

Russian journalist Pavel Kanygin in an interview with UNIAN said about the Russian authorities' response to his publications, which were not in line with the Kremlin's policy; why the Russian troops who fought in Ukraine should not expect any state assistance; and how the Russian population’s opinion on the events in Ukraine varies.

The Ukrainian president offered the rotation of the Central Election Commission with some intrigue being added. Sociologists are carefully eyeing Yulia Tymoshenko, Nadia Savchenko and Andriy Sadoviy. Everyone seems to have profited from the Equality March in Kyiv.

Russia is building a new military base near Belarus for "protection" from Ukraine; 14 journalists, including those who volunteered for the army, have died in Donbas throughout the Anti-Terrorist Operation; 1,500 participants joined the Equality March in Kyiv.

The desire of some German and French politicians to demonstrate foreign political breakthroughs in relations with Russia ahead of the elections causes irritation of the official Kiev. Victoria Nuland has explained to the U.S. congressmen the situation with the anti-Russian sanctions. Statements by Sergei Lavrov could push Ukraine to certain actions.

On the eve of the Equality March in Kyiv which draws somewhat ambiguous attitudes in the Ukrainian society, Head of EU Delegation to Ukraine Jan Tombinski told UNIAN why this event was important both for society and Ukraine’s Western partners and praised anti-discrimination reform of the Ukrainian authorities.

The launch of a judicial reform could not do without a political trail. Poroshenko rather gracefully summed up the biennium of his presidency. Nadia Savchenko began her parliamentary career with the bat.

Four people were killed in a landslide at Hrybovychi waste dump in Lviv region, 335 MPs supported the president-proposed draft amendments to the Constitution on judiciary, 46 million people in 167 countries around the world live in modern slavery.

Pavlo Klimkin’s talks with Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin in early June were fundamental in their nature. Russian Foreign Minister opened up his cards a bit in respect of Donbas. The NATO Summit in Warsaw could become a turning point not only for the Alliance in general, but also in its relations with its neighbors.

Immediately after returning to Ukraine, Nadia Savchenko became a political player, who will have to be taken into account by Ukraine’s more sophisticated politicians. Public statements by the minister of information policy produce a depressing effect. Intermediate parliamentary elections in single-mandate constituencies will be a dress rehearsal for the big electoral play.

One Ukrainian citizen, namely Nadia Savchenko, who has been sentenced to imprisonment by the Russian court, returned to Ukraine; the State Property Fund since year start has sold 42 state-owned objects and 113 municipal ones; $45 billion is needed to provide for the energy efficiency upgrade of apartment buildings and private households in Ukraine.