- Reform conference in Copenhagen. Ukraine Reform Conference took place in Copenhagen on June 27. Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman called to create a “high-level group” to assess the state of reforms in Ukraine.
- Ukraine’s tech industry isn’t Ukrainian on paper. Nearly every tech startup that was founded and is being developed in Ukraine is legally registered elsewhere.
- War rages on. Despite a formal ceasefire, Russian-backed militants attacked Ukrainian forces 12 times on June 27, killing three and wounding one soldier.
- Poroshenko being sued. Activists of three anti-corruption organizations are suing President Petro Poroshenko over his decision to appoint Pavlo Zhebrivsky an auditor of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, or NABU. They say Zhebrivsky doesn’t meet the criteria.
- PrivatBank gets a strategy. The Finance Ministry of Ukraine has approved a development strategy for Ukraine’s largest bank until the year 2022. The document provides for the introduction of an effective risk management system, addressing the problem of non-performing loans, as well as a number of organizational and management changes aimed at increasing efficiency and reducing costs.
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