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Situation in the combat zone<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A new ceasefire from July 1. <\/strong>At the meeting in Minsk the Trilateral Contact Group adopted the decision to introduce a ceasefire alongside the entire 426-km long contact line for the two summer months effective July 1. The Ukrainian side states that the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will inviolately adhere to the decision adopted.<\/p>\n

New violations.<\/strong>Despite the established ceasefire Russia-backed militants have already made two attacks on July 2 by the afternoon. In the Horlivka direction Ukrainian troops\u2019 positions in the area of Zaitseve came under hostile fire from 120-mm mortars. In Luhansk sector Russian proxies fired upon the Ukrainian troops in Novooleksandrivka area with automatic grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms.<\/p>\n

In Donetsk sector Ukrainian positions came under precision fire near Maryinka, Avdiivka, Pivdenne, Opytne and Novomykhailivka.<\/p>\n

The Trump-Putin meeting: what to expect?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The meeting in Helsinki on July 16. <\/strong>The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will meet the US President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0in Helsinki on July 16 to discuss \u201ca series of uneasy questions\u201d, said the press-secretary of the Russian President Dmitriy Peskov as quoted by TASS. \u201cMany are waiting for this meeting, it will be a very serious talk about extremely uneasy questions,\u201d he said adding that \u201cserious preparations\u201d are underway ahead of the Helsinki summit.<\/p>\n

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Syria, Ukraine and the US elections: a look at the agenda of the Presidents.\u00a0<\/strong>The US President<\/a>\u00a0Donald Trump stated that at the meeting with the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16 he would raise the issue of alleged Russian meddling in the US elections. Speaking to the journalists the head of the White House also said that he would discuss the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine and other international issues with Putin. \u201cI\u2019ll talk to him about everything. We\u2019re going to talk about Ukraine, we\u2019re going to be talking about Syria. We\u2019ll be talking about elections… we don\u2019t want anybody tampering with elections,\u201d the US President emphasized.<\/p>\n

Compromises as to the G8? <\/strong>The US President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0views Moscow\u2019s return to the international fold as inevitable and thinks that \u201ctrade-offs\u201d could allow it to rejoin the Group of Seven club of industrialized democracies without giving Crimea back to Ukraine, said the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as Trump\u2019s national security adviser met in Moscow with the Russian President Vladimir Putin to prepare for a summit between the two leaders next month in Europe. Pompeo did not elaborate but stressed that the US position remains that Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, a move that led to its suspension from the G7.<\/p>\n

The EU summit: sanctions against the Russian Federation extended<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At the EU summit<\/a>\u00a0in Brussels the EU leaders adopted the decision to extend the sanctions against Russia, report the media referring to their sources. One of the EU officials spoke to the journalists saying that on June 25 the leaders of the EU member states agreed to extend the economic sanctions against Russia that were introduced after it illegally annexed Crimea and started fueling combat actions in Donbas. The sanctions have been extended for six months. They foresee restrictions on business activities with banks and other financial institutions as well as other restrictions in the Russian energy and defense sectors.<\/p>\n

In the summit\u2019s final statement the EU member states<\/a>\u00a0called on Russia to recognize its responsibility over the downing of the Malaysian Boeing of the MH17 flight over Donbas in 2014. The European Union calls on the Russian Federation to \u201crecognize its responsibility and fully cooperate with all efforts to establish truth, justice, and accountability.\u201d The EU leaders also reiterated their full support for a UN resolution on the downing of MH17 that aims at independent and all-round investigation of the incident.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian prisoners of Kremlin<\/strong><\/p>\n

#FreeSentsov. <\/strong>According to the lawyer of the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov Dmitriy Dinze, Sentsov is currently not being force-fed. \u201cFeeding was discussed between Oleg and the head of the medical unit as a possibility only if Oleg happens to have a second attack,\u201d Dinze said. The Ukrainian film director had an attack on the 26th<\/sup>day of his hunger strike, Sentsov\u2019s lawyer reminded. On June 29 Dinze said that Oleg Sentsov is held in the colony\u2019s medical unit<\/a>, his condition is stable.<\/p>\n

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Statements on the possible \u201c23 for 23\u201d prisoners swap.<\/strong>Official Kyiv is ready to pass to the Russian Federation 23 persons convicted for various crimes in Ukraine in exchange for 23 Ukrainian citizens kept in the Russian Federation for political motives, stated Ukraine\u2019s Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmyla Denisova. The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko<\/a>\u00a0called on the international community to undertake decisive action to liberate Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. \u201cIn my view, the time has come for our international partners not as much to express their concern, but to give a decisive response like the large-scale and powerful one to the Salisbury poisoning,\u201d President Poroshenko wrote on his Facebook page on June 29.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

PACE resolution. <\/strong>The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe<\/a>\u00a0(PACE) adopted a resolution on Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia and in the occupied Crimea, said Head of the Ukrainian parliamentary delegation to PACE Volodymyr Ariev. \u201cSeventy seven (votes) for! Russia has been yet again pointed at its crimes. I thank the rapporteur Emanuelis Zingeris for the excellent work,\u201d he wrote on his Facebook page on June 28. Iryna Gerashchenko, the first deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine\u2019s Parliament) and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE, said that the adopted resolution condemns torture and undue conditions that the Ukrainian citizens \u2013 political prisoners in the Russian Federation are being held in. Moreover, the document demands the access to representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and of other humanitarian organizations to the conflict zone, to the Russia-occupied Ukrainian territories as well as to the Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia.<\/p>\n

Fight against corruption: amendments to the Constitution<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko calls upon the Verkhovna Rada not to protract the adoption of the decision that will lead to revocation of the parliamentary immunity. \u201cI expect of the Verkhovna Rada that they will adopt these amendments to the Constitution as soon as possible without protraction, as each MP promised to revoke the parliamentary immunity. I do ask to do it, now is a very good time to adopt this decision,\u201d the Head of the state said during the festivities on the occasion of the Constitution Day on June 28. He also reminded that the draft law foresees that the MPs of the next convocation will be stripped off the parliamentary immunity and that the law will come into force on January 1, 2020.<\/p>\n

Read also: \u201cUkraine\u2019s Constitution: a permanent battlefield for politics<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

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