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Politico: White House freezes Ukraine military package that includes lethal weapons

Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Ukraine Security Assistance

RFE/RL: US says ‘contingency’ aid ready if Russia attacks Ukraine

Ukraine sells Cold War era bunker in Lviv

National Security Council imposes sanctions on oligarch Dmytro Firtash

EBRD to provide Ukrgasbank with 25 million euros to help local businesses grow

Ukraine to simplify university admission procedure for foreigners

COVID-19 in Ukraine: 967 new cases, 50 new deaths, 57,970 new vaccinations

Ambassador Tobias Thyberg: 1,000-year Ukrainian-Swedish friendship marches on

UNHCR representative: ‘Asylum seekers in Ukraine should be allowed to work’

What to do in Kyiv on June 18-20

Reuters: Ukraine’s handcuffed couple parts ways (VIDEO)

Despite turbulence, Swedish businesses remain in Ukraine

NSDC supports Strategy for development of Ukraine’s defense industry– Ministry for Strategic Industries

 

 

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Vitrenko: Ukraine to receive money for gas transit, even if Russia suspends it

Ukraine Railways orders 100 coaches

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AVELLUM strengthens its litigation practice with hire of Mariana Antonovych

Kinstellar expands in Ukraine with the acquisition of DLA Piper’s Kyiv practice

Opinions

Editorial: Delusional West

Editorial: More action please

Timothy Ash: Ukrainian complacency amid rising debt

Vladimir Socor: NATO Summit is a net disappointment to eastern allies

Yuri Lapaiev: Growing pains in the Ukrainian special forces

EUvsDisinfo: When arguments become heated

Walter Russell Mead: While democracies lecture, their adversaries run free

EUvsDisinfo: Russia as the silver medalist in the Putin-Biden Geneva duel

George F. Will: US needs NATO allies who share its renewed dedication to maintaining an orderly world

David Ignatius: Biden should make progress at home

CEPA: What have we learned after summits?

Paul Goble: Minsk flooding Lithuania with illegal migrants

Halya Coynash: Crimean Tatar political prisoners rushed to hospital

The Ukrainian Weekly: The Russian ‘red line’

Pavel Felgenhauer: Biden, Putin resolved practically nothing in Geneva

Halya Coynash: Ukraine’s leaders hand Babyn Yar into Russian hands

Alexander Vindman: Putin is still winning

From the archives: SBU Chief Fired After Flap With Poroshenko

Security Service of Ukraine chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, ineffective in fighting corruption allegedly tied to Kremlin-backed oligarch Dmytro Firtash, is fired by President Petro Poroshenko.

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