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Top news – only 4 days until Ukraine’s parliamentary election on Sunday, July 21:
- The Supreme Court allowed infamous Yanukovych-era prosecutor Renat Kuzmin to run in the July 21 parliamentary election, triggering a backlash. Kuzmin was behind the prosecution of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko. He is also on Ukraine’s wanted list, having allegedly crossed illegally back into Ukraine in 2014.
- The Austrian Justice Minister approved the extradition of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash to the United States. Firtash’s lawyers have filed a motion for a retrial and may still file a separate appeal if that fails.
- Violence against women is an epidemic in Ukraine. Over one million women are exposed to physical, sexual or emotional violence in their families in Ukraine every year but only one in 10 seeks help.
- Ukraine’s far-right groups receive millions of hryvnias from the government to carry out “national patriotic education,” Bellingcat found.
- The Cabinet of Ministers will reduce the number of ministers after the election, reports Ukrinform.
- Ukraine spelled out its conditions for negotiating with Russia in the Normandy format this summer: progress in implementing agreements reached by foreign policy advisers in July.
- Ukrainian politicians love insulting people. Watch this video for a compilation.
