Materials on 5 July 2018 year

  • Kharkiv LGBT office vandalised Several people wearing gas masks attacked an office of the Kharkiv LGBT community in Podilskyy Lane on the evening of 4 July, the local police have reported. They stormed into the…
  • Miners' trade unions picket parliament Around 200 miners are holding a picket outside parliament to demand stronger state support for the coal industry. They are holding orange casks and trade union flags as well as posters…
  • Cousin finally sees Sentsov in colony Natalya Kaplan, the cousin of Oleh Sentsov, a Ukrainian film director convicted in Russia, has finally managed to see him in the White Bear colony in Labytnangi in Russia's Tyumen…
  • MPs refuse to consider new election body members The Ukrainian parliament has refused to consider reformatting the Central Electoral Commission, according to an LB.ua correspondent. Speaker Andriy Parubiy put it for the rating vote…
  • President signs law on national security Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed the bill on national security into law. "It is an important milestone in reforming the whole country, above all its defence sector…
  • Presidential faction refuses to vote until election body renewed The Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction has refused to vote until parliament approves a new composition of the Central Electoral Commission, LB.ua correspondents have quoted faction leader…
  • EU sets date for trilateral gas talks with Russia, Ukraine The vice-president of the European Commission in charge of the Energy Union project, Maros Sefcovic, has confirmed that the first round of trilateral talks with Ukraine and Russia…