Editor’s note: In this feature, the Kyiv Post brings together the most relevant events from morning headlines.
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in
Russia, the Associated
Press reports citing the Interfax news agency.
The issue of imprisoned
ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko undergoing an operation isn’t presently being examined,
Ukrainska Pravda
reports citing the health ministry. On July 1, Tymoshenko’s daughter said
her mother urgently needs an operation to treat complications from spinal
hernia which fueled talks of her release to Germany for treatment.
More than a thousand
residents in a Mykolayiv Oblast village have stormed a local police station in protest
over the rape of a 29-year-old woman in which two police officers and a taxi
driver are suspects, Ukrainska
Pravda reports. The woman is reportedly in critical condition and has had
two operations following her beating and rape by the suspected policemen.
Two mountain climbers
recount a night of terror when three Ukrainians were among the 10 mountaineers who were killed by
an Islamist militant group in Pakistan, the
National Geographic reports.
Ukraine’s parliament
indefinitely shelved an anti-discrimination law that is a crucial requirement for securing visa-free
travel to Europe, a Kommersant Ukraine
analysis says.
Ukrainian businesses lost
$1.7 billion in Cyprus in the three months since two of the island-nation’s biggest banks collapsed
and needed a bailout from international lenders and financial institutions, writes Forbes Ukraine.
