On July 1, the Ukrainian parliament approved the appointment of lawmaker Dmytro Lubinets as Ukraine’s new ombudsman, another lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak reported. Lubinets headed the parliament’s human rights committee. Verkhovna Rada dismissed the previous ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova on May 31, after Ukrainian journalists and activists had raised concerns over her reports of rapes by Russian soldiers, which sometimes were seen as insensitive or disrespectful toward survivors.
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Switzerland's Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) explained that under its host-state agreement, it is obliged to facilitate the participation of official delegates in international events held on Swiss territory.
"This is a serious and unacceptable incident," Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said. "That message has been clearly communicated to the Russian charge d'affaires."
"We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever," U.S. President Donald Trump said.
"Each system currently produced for Ukraine includes three medium-range SLM launchers, and two short-range SLS launchers, as part of a unified complex," Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Oleksii Makeiev said.
By labeling missing soldiers as deserters, Russia not only conceals its true war losses but also avoids paying social benefits to the families of the deceased, IStories reported.
Another 555 people were freed separately from prisoner exchanges with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky added.
The statement follows President Volodymyr Zelensky's July 27 decree imposing sanctions on individuals and entities from Russia and its allies.
"According to received reports, a drone was spotted at an altitude of about 200 meters, last seen near Vilnius," said Darius Buta, a representative of Lithuania's National Crisis Management Center, according to LRT.
The suspected agent was identified as a 24-year-old unemployed local resident who had sought quick money via Telegram.
Ukraine's state energy giant Naftogaz has signed its first agreement to import natural gas from Azerbaijan, the company said in a press release on July 28. The deal comes as gas storage reserves have fallen to their lowest level in at least 11 years, driven by Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy grid.
Protests were held near the hotel housing the Russian fencers and outside the Sports Palace, the venue for the competition.
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