Politics

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Heorhiy Tykhyi commented on a statement by Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, regarding the prospects for NATO membership.

Olga Stefanishyna, former Deputy Prime Minister and former Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States, commented on reports of the new allegation. She stated that she is taking the legal proceedings in stride and considers the commotion surrounding the matter to be “a storm in a teacup.”

Olga Stefanishyna, former Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration and former Ambassador to the United States, was served with a notice of suspicion.

Protests are continuing in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro, and other cities across Ukraine, demanding that Mykhailo Fedorov be reinstated as defense minister.

Seven years ago, Ukrainians last voted in a nationwide election. In 2019, the country elected a president and a new parliament. The next elections were scheduled to take place in 2023–2024, but they were postponed due to martial law.

Protests in support of Mykhailo Fedorov are once again taking place in Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Ternopil, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, and other cities.

Ukraine’s path to NATO membership is not promising; the obstacle is that “it is impossible to join an organization based on World War II doctrines with the level of development currently seen in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reshuffled the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

The Security Service of Ukraine and the Office of the Prosecutor General have served a notice of suspicion in absentia to Russian director, screenwriter, and former State Duma deputy Vladimir Bortko. According to the investigation, he justified Russian aggression and publicly called for the use of tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine.

On July 30, protests in support of Mykhailo Fedorov resumed in cities across Ukraine. People are holding up signs calling for his reinstatement as defense minister.