- Official status for the Hungarian language in Ukraine. Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó demands that the Hungarian language has an official status of a regional language in Ukraine’s Zakarpattya Oblast, where more than 100,000 ethnic Hungarians live.
- Kidnapping in Kyiv. A son of a Lybian diplomat was kidnapped in Kyiv on June 25 and found later that day. He had minor injuries.
- Surprise candidate. Ukraine’s top investigative journalist Dmytro Gnap says he is leaving journalism to become a politician. He wants to run for president and parliament in 2019.
- New ambassadors. President Petro Poroshenko appointed ambassadors of Ukraine to Switzerland and Denmark.
- Ethnic attack condemned. The United States and Canada said on June 25 they were horrified by an attack on a Roma camp in Western Ukraine in which one man was killed and several wounded, including a ten-year-old boy.
- Gdansk to Odesa. Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan wants to connect with a freeway two major European ports, Ukraine’s Odesa and Poland’s Gdansk.
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