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Top news – only 11 days until Ukraine’s parliamentary election on Sunday, July 21:
- Odesa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov, the tainted leader of the “crime capital of Ukraine” as Interior Minister Arsen Avakov calls the Black Sea port city, has been acquitted in a corruption case that will not do anything to improve Ukraine’s reputation for lawlessness and lack of rule of law. Trukhanov could not be reached for comment but has denied all wrongdoing.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky has canceled the traditional Aug. 24 Independence Day parade and will give the money to soldiers fighting against Russia’s military invasion in the Donbas, a war in its sixth year with more than 13,000 killed.
- Despite fighting the war, Ukraine will increase its participation in overseas peacekeeping missions.
- Support for NATO has reached its highest point –– 53 percent — according to a new poll commissioned by the International Republican Institute and released on July 9.
- Ukraine’s low-profile energy minister is charged with failing to declare a $1.2 million loan.
- A photo gallery of some of the protests that caused a pro-Russian TV station in Ukraine to cancel a planned joint program with a Moscow propaganda TV station.
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