News about Ukraine
Two-thirds of Ukrainian citizens believe it is necessary to begin negotiations with Russia to end the war, while 24% of Ukrainians support continuing the fighting.
In Central and Southeastern Europe, a long and relatively wet spring created favorable conditions for the early cabbage harvest. As a result, cabbage prices in Poland plummeted from the very start of the selling season. In Ukraine and Moldova, cabbage prices remained at a relatively high level until the end of the first month of summer. However, a significant drop in prices for mid-season—“seasonal”—cabbage is expected going forward.
Ukraine’s rail freight carrier, Ukrzaliznytsia, did not change its rates for the use of grain cars in July of this year. However, the cost of transporting other types of cargo using the company’s rolling stock has increased.
Since 2022, Ukrainian refugees have contributed approximately 1.6 billion Moldovan lei (more than $90 million) to Moldova’s state budget in the form of taxes and social security contributions.
Ukraine’s first cat therapy center will soon open in the city of Irpin in the Kyiv region. The center will provide psychological support with the help of rescued cats, using feline therapy—a branch of animal-assisted therapy.
The world’s richest man even celebrated his 55th birthday in his own unique way—Elon Musk stated on X the day before that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had helped fund the “revolution,” “which sparked the war between Russia and Ukraine.”
For the first time in Ukraine, seized virtual assets have been transferred to the government for management. More than 8.3 million USDT has been deposited into the crypto wallet of the National Agency for Asset Tracing and Management (ARMA).
Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Polish opposition party Law and Justice (PiS), called on the Polish government to block negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union. He made this statement amid a sharp deterioration in relations between Warsaw and Kyiv, according to the Financial Times.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko recently met with representatives of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Ukrainians in the Republic of Moldova will be able to obtain citizenship through a simplified procedure. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko discussed this decision with Moldovan Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu.
On Thursday, June 26, Kyiv is set to receive the first tranche of 3.2 billion euros from the 90 billion euro loan from the European Union that was previously agreed upon.
A total of 21 people were affected by the activities of the “Mercury” investment fund, which operated as a pyramid scheme.
The loss of foreign currency revenue for Ukraine’s ports due to infrastructure damage caused by Russian missile strikes amounts to $900 million. And this figure could rise even further in the future.
Hungary opposed sending a letter to the European Council and the European Commission outlining the common position of all 27 EU countries on the issue of Ukraine and Moldova’s accession to the bloc, Politico reports, citing two sources.
Ukrainian law enforcement officials suspect a group of government officials and private entrepreneurs of organizing a scheme to embezzle budget funds allocated for humanitarian demining of agricultural land in the Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Chernihiv regions.
The Moldovan Parliament will consider a bill to ratify the Convention Establishing an International Commission for the Settlement of Claims for Ukraine, signed in The Hague on December 16, 2025.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga sharply criticized Polish President Karol Nawrocki’s decision to strip Volodymyr Zelenskyy of the Order of the White Eagle—the country’s highest state honor. According to the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Kyiv does not intend to let such actions go unanswered.
On the German VEZG exchange, prices for market-weight hog half-carcasses were set at €1.50/kg for the coming week, and at €0.63/kg for sow half-carcasses.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s statements that Ukraine cannot become an EU member while it remains at war, and that it could be granted interim status, send an important signal to Moldova.
The modernization of the Starokozache-Tudora, Dolinske-Chishmikioi, Lisne-Seiti, and Maloyaroslavets 1-Chadyr-Lunga on the Ukrainian-Moldovan border in the Odesa region, according to a statement by Oleksiy Kuleba, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction and Minister of Communities and Territories.
