Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, pleaded with the government on Monday not to bomb his home city. Local authorities say thousands of residents have left Donetsk, but most have nowhere to go.

Ukraine's Kharkiv Morozov Machine-Building Design Bureau has begun field testing of new armored vehicle called the DOZER-B.

 

Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council, Mykhaylo Koval, made the report in an interview with TV channel 5, Monday evening, July 7, reports Ukrainska Pravda.

 

Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, last week warned against “utterly reprehensible” incitement to violence targeting women and underage girls, and destruction of civilian infrastructure.

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine arrested accomplices of terrorists in Sloviansk. They tried to receive humanitarian aid in the form of sausages in line with other city residents. However, they were caught by outraged citizens. Checks revealed that the detainees were involved in sabotage and subversion. In particular, one of them was seen at checkpoint with other mercenaries. Currently, the identity of the suspect and the extent of his involvement in sabotage, subversion, and other terrorist activities are being probed by law enforcement officials.”

 

Analyst: “…the poll reveals that Ukraine has solidly embraced the European integration foreign policy course, with no threat of falling back into the Russian orbit, except in the event of a military occupation.”

 

Moscow’s foreign policy is “balancing between two key tasks: the preservation of a monopoly on the export of energy sources to Europe and the preservation of its own sovereignty and strategic interests on the Eurasian continent.” But doing that is currently very hard, and “something has to be sacrificed.”

 

“This year we are only working at 35 percent of capacity,” said Sergei A. Sazhienko, the director of the company’s spotless, energy-efficient meat processing plant.

 

Today, a court in Moscow has extended the pretrial arrest of Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, who was detained in Crimea and accused of plotting terrorist attacks.

 

The Centre believes that the occupation regime is deliberately violating the rights of Crimean Tatars, forcing them to leave the Crimea to which they returned after Ukraine’s independence. There have been numerous violations of Crimean Tatars’ rights over the months since Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

 

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