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In Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, police barred activists from attending a memorial ceremony, Radio Azattyk reported.
Family members and supporters of Kazakh opposition figure Aydos Sadykov gathered on the outskirts of Kyiv on Friday to bury the activist, who was shot near his apartment building in the Ukrainian capital.
Natalia Sadykova attended the funeral ceremony for her husband, whose death she blamed on Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
The world in focus, as seen by a Canadian leading global affairs analyst, writer and speaker, in his review of international media.
Britain’s Labour Party won a landslide election victory Friday morning, sweeping the Conservative Party out of power after 14 years in an anti-incumbent revolt that heralded a new era in British politics. The outgoing prime minister, Rishi Sunak, appearing tired and somber, conceded his party’s national defeat in the early morning hours, shortly before the Labour Party’s parliamentary majority was confirmed. “I’m sorry…this is a difficult day,” Mr. Sunak said from the steps of Downing Street before heading to Buckingham Palace to deliver his formal resignation to King Charles III.
Earlier, Sunak said that he had called Keir Starmer, the Labour leader and incoming prime minister to congratulate him. Mr. Starmer, appearing before a crowd of supporters, promised to “rebuild our country,” adding: “Change begins now.” Partial results indicated that Labour was on course to win more than 400 of the 650 seats in the British House of Commons, versus less than 150 for the Conservatives. That would be the worst defeat for the Conservatives in the nearly 200-year history of the party, raising questions about its future. Reform U.K., an insurgent, anti-immigration party, was projected to win four seats but a significant share of the vote, a robust performance that came at the expense of the Conservatives. The magnitude of the Tory defeat will reverberate through Britain for months, if not years. - NYT
A village council employee was reportedly killed and 14 of her colleagues wounded during Russian shelling in the Volnovakha district.
Russian attacks killed two and wounded more than a dozen others in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine on Friday, regional officials said.
Moscow has centered its firepower on the industrial region, which it claims to have annexed and has been partially controlled by Kremlin-backed forces since 2014.
Renowned US author and analyst, Chuck Pfarrer explains why Russia is continuing to fail in Ukraine and is struggling to advance despite all of its recent reinvigorated efforts.
Serhiy Kolyada on Orban off to pay homage to the anti-European tsar
A wave of Ukrainian kamikaze drones struck and set afire another oil refinery in western Russia on Friday, but local officials said there was no damage, and the blaze was “a grass fire.”
A reported ten explosives-toting, long-range robot aircraft flew most of the length of the Black Sea from a launch site in south-west Ukraine to hit in a western industrial district of the Russian city Rostov shortly after midnight.
Independent news reports and local social media reported fierce anti-aircraft fire followed by multiple explosions and two major fires close to or possibly on the premises of the Novosakhtinsky Petroleum Plant (Rostov branch). Video geo-located to the region showed an orange fireball following a probable drone impact, and a mushroom cloud rising hundreds of meters into the sky following the blast.
A Ukrainian air defense system crew successfully underwent operational training in Germany in recent months, the German Ambassador to Ukraine said.
Germany announced that the latest Patriot air defense system it supplied to Kyiv has arrived in Ukraine, as reported on Friday by German Ambassador to Ukraine Martin Jaeger on X.
“The third Patriot air defense system from Germany has already arrived in Ukraine,” Jaeger said, while mentioning that a Ukrainian system crew had successfully undergone appropriate operational training in Germany in recent months.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed that the European Union's backing for Ukraine would not weaken despite Hungarian Viktor Orban's controversial trip to Moscow on Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban began talks on the Ukraine war at the Kremlin Friday.
At the televised talks, Putin said he wanted to take the opportunity to "discuss the nuances that have developed" over the war in Ukraine with Orban, who visited Kyiv earlier this week.
A Russian agent working with the Atesh partisan movement carried out the attack. The agent refused to take payment.
Ukrainian partisans reported that one of their agents blew up a railroad track near the Russian city of Yekaterinburg – about 1,600 kilometers (995 miles) from Ukraine – that was being used to transport North Korean ammunition to be used for Russia’s ongoing Ukraine invasion, the Atesh underground movement said Friday, July 5.
An Atesh spokesperson told Kyiv Post that a Russian agent working for the partisan movement carried out the sabotage.
A Ukrainian Milblogger posted a video on Telegram that shows the moment when a probable in-barrel explosion destroyed the Russian gun and its crew members.
The Ukrainian milblogger Оперативний ЗСУ (Operational ZSU) posted a video on Thursday, July 4, of the moment when an AZP S-60 Soviet-era towed, medium-range, single-barrel anti-aircraft gun being operated in an unspecified location in Ukraine by Russian troops, spectacularly blew up.
The Conservative party suffered a crushing blow in the UK’s July 4 general election, with incoming Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer the new man in charge. What will it mean for Ukraine?
The Labour party won the UK General Election with a landslide victory on July 5, catapulting Sir Keir Starmer into 10 Downing Street as Rishi Sunak swiftly conceded defeat.
Labour – which traditionally sits on the center-left of UK politics – has won its biggest election victory since 1997 when Tony Blair shot to the top job against the backdrop of D:Ream’s single “Thing’s Can Only Get Better.”
For months, US envoys warned Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank to cut ties with a Russian oligarch. In May, Washington threatened to limit Raiffeisen's dollar access, jeopardizing its operations in Russia.
For more than four months, US envoys delivered increasingly shrill warnings to Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International to scrap a deal they said had links to one of Russia’s most powerful oligarchs. In May, Washington’s patience snapped.
In a written ultimatum that landed on 8 May at the bank, its supervisor the European Central Bank and Austria’s government, Washington threatened to curb Raiffeisen’s access to the dollar, according to one person who has seen the letter, a potential death sentence for the biggest Western lender in Russia.
In UK, historic landslide general election victory of Labour over Conservatives.
Keir Starmer on Friday will become Britain's new prime minister, as his center-left opposition Labour party swept to a landslide general election victory, ending 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule.
"The Labour Party has won this general election, and I have called Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory," a sombre-looking Rishi Sunak said after he was re-elected to his seat.
According to the sources, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó was expected to join him for the visit.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán travelled to Moscow on Thursday (4 July) to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, only a few days after his visit to Kyiv, on a trip that earned him stern rebukes from EU officials and diplomats
A few days after Orbán travelled to Kyiv to meet Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he may make another trip to meet Putin in Moscow, according to a post by VSquare journalist Szabolcs Panyi on X, which was further relayed by Euractiv’s partner Telex.
Sidebar Stories – In the vein of “literature is news that stays news,” Kyiv Post presents some not necessarily factual narratives that offer added insight into Ukraine’s realities.
It was a year after the war began in Donbas that Maya officially met Orest, though he was not a stranger to her. She had seen him a couple of houses away raising his umbrella in the rain, picking a flower, and scooping a stray cat into his arms.
“You like them too,” she said.
Six private houses and a car were damaged due to falling drone debris in one of the settlements in the Kyiv region.
Ukraine's air defenses successfully shot down all Shahed-type kamikaze drones launched by Russian forces early on Friday, July 5, according to a report by the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Mykola Oleschuk, via Telegram.
Russia launched a total of 32 attack drones over Ukraine from the Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk regions in Russia. All were downed by Ukrainian troops. Fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force, mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, and electronic warfare units were involved in repelling the attack.
The proposed changes would make it easier for passengers to travel with dogs in and outside of Ukraine, though the company is still waiting for official approvals.
Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine’s state-owned railway company, announced that it had initiated updates to the existing policies on traveling with dogs by train in Ukraine.
According to the company, the proposed changes would allow the use of any bag with a waterproof bottom as a carrier without the need for a rigid carrier box. Animals under 45 cm at the withers would also be allowed to stay outside of carriers and sleep inside the cabins.
Ukraine is in a default situation, but (as yet) without a default credit rating – creditors, the Ministry of Finance, and the IMF are willing to progress negotiations.
Ukraine is a month away from its deadline to negotiate a new agreement with Eurobond holders. The standstill finishes during the first half of August, following two years of an agreed absence of payments.
Ukraine informed its creditors that it would be unable to pay following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, requesting new conditions of payments. For almost four months, Ukraine has been preparing for these negotiations, and for the last two years, the Ministry of Finance has been keeping in touch with its creditors.
A source from Ukraine's defense sector said the attack was carried out using explosive drones - one of which successfully hit the military facility in the city of Kotovsk in Russia's Tambov region.
A Ukrainian drone assault targeted a gunpowder factory in western Russia, a Kyiv security source said Thursday, in the latest strike aiming to dent Russia's military logistics.
Kyiv has stepped up aerial attacks on military and energy facilities inside Russia in recent months with the hopes of crippling Moscow's ability to attack Ukrainian cities or gain more ground in the industrial east.
According to the Ukrainian ombudsman, orphaned children became a cover for close relatives of Kyiv officials to illegally travel abroad and avoid mobilization.
Officials of Kyiv based social services had allegedly used their male relatives to accompany orphaned children abroad so that they would avoid mobilization, according to a report by Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets in a Telegram post.
“They were ‘got off’ from mobilization. How orphans and children deprived of parental care have become a cover for close relatives of Kyiv officials to illegally travel abroad and avoid mobilization,” Lubinets wrote, describing this case.
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US Democrats increasingly call for alternative to Biden; Ukraine hits Russian gunpowder factory; American jailed for 12 years in Russia on drug charges; At least one killed by shelling in Pokrovsk.
After US President Joe Biden’s unsettlingly dismal performance in the first 2024 presidential debate last week, more and more of his Democratic political colleagues in the United States are looking around for another candidate for the November elections, insiders say, while being careful not to insult their 81-year-old leader who has been a liberal force in Washington since the 1970s.
As some named and unnamed voices from the Democratic party have asked the president this week to consider stepping aside, Biden, while secretly holding discussions with Democratic allies about whether to pass along his electoral delegates to someone else, on Thursday told a group of Democratic governors at the White House claim that he needs to do is stop holding public events after 8 p.m. so he can get more sleep, according to CNN.
