- Erdogan claims victory. In neighboring Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling party claimed victory in the presidential and parliamentary polls on June 24, overcoming the biggest electoral challenge to their rule in a decade and a half.
- Poroshenko’s offshores. A new portion of Panama Papers documents offers new details in offshore dealings of Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.
- Deadly ethnic attack. Several men attacked a camp of the Romani people in Lviv in western Ukraine, killing one and injuring at least four other Romani. This assault follows several other attacks on the Romani camps in Ukraine in the past months.
- Changes in Prosecutor General’s Office. A reorganization is underway at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine. The in absentia cases department, which investigates the EuroMaidan Revolution cases, will be liquidated. It’s head Sergii Gorbatuk thinks the move is retribution for his criticism.
- Human rights violations. A United Nations report records a rise in human rights violations in Ukraine’s war-torn eastern region and in Crimea.
- Kyivan Rus under concrete. An archaeological site on Poshtova Square that offers a look at ancient Kyiv is in danger: The city council didn’t order to stop the construction of a shopping mall at the site.
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