Ukraine should be exempt from steel quotas under the EU’s new trade measures for these products, CEO of Ukrainian industrial company Interpipe Luca Zanotti said in an interview with Politico.

At the same time, Zanotti stressed that the EU’s three main institutions agreed that Ukraine is a special case entitled to trade preferences following Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
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A court has passed a guilty verdict on a 49-year-old Kharkiv resident who corrected a mass Russian drone attack on June 5 last year, which injured 18 people.

"The court found him guilty of high treason committed under martial law (Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and sentenced him to 15 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property," the press service of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office reports.
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The Ukrainian language already dominates the educational process in Kyiv schools, but it has not yet fully become the language of informal communication among schoolchildren. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted among students of grades 8-12 by the standing committee of the Kyiv City Council on Education and Science, Youth and Sports.

"Ukrainian has won in the classroom, but it has not yet won the corridors of educational institutions. It is the language of the textbook, but it is not always the language of recess, jokes, friendship, and informal conversation," Sofia Rudanetska, secretary of the Kyiv City Youth Council under the Kyiv City Council, emphasized while presenting the results.
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Specialists from the SBU’s "Alpha" Special Operations Center have struck the 16th Center of the Russian FSB, which specializes in signals intelligence (SIGINT), the SBU press service reports.

"This command post, located in the Temryuk district of Krasnodar Krai, was used by the enemy to guide missiles and drones across the territory of Ukraine, as well as to intercept signals from foreign satellites. As a result of the SBU drone attack, key facilities of the Russian signals intelligence center were disabled," the statement on the Telegram channel says.
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Ukrainian MP, leader of the European Solidarity party and Ukraine’s fifth president from 2014 to 2019, Petro Poroshenko, has said that during his recent first meeting in a long time with incumbent President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, they primarily discussed ways to end the war in Ukraine, the party said on the website on Friday.

"I went in with a certain distrust and skepticism about the sincerity of Zelenskyy’s desire to end the war. And when I left that meeting, I had much less skepticism. We devoted a significant part of our time to how to end the war and how to bring peace. For me, this was very positive," Poroshenko said on the sidelines of the Black Sea Security Forum.
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A window of opportunity for Ukraine to shape its own strategy in the Black Sea region has opened thanks to Russia being deprived of the ability to dominate it, and this opportunity should be used taking into account existing challenges, Ukrainian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom and former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny has said.

"A system of collective security in the Black Sea region must be built. Given its coastline and unique experience in using technology in modern warfare, it is impossible to create a reliable counterbalance to Russia in the Black Sea without Ukraine. Therefore, NATO must invest in the military potential of its coastal states and develop a new security strategy for the Black Sea region," Zaluzhny said on Facebook following his speech at the Black Sea Security Forum on Friday.
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Ukraine's Ministry of Finance and the World Bank have signed an agreement on a EUR 236 million loan within the framework of the Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance (PEACE) in Ukraine project, backed by a state guarantee from Sweden.

The attracted financing will be directed to the general fund of Ukraine's state budget in the near future and allocated to reimburse key social expenditures of the government, the Finance Ministry said on its website on Friday.
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Romanian President Nicusor Dan said on Friday in Galati that a Russian drone that hit a residential building changed its flight path after it had likely been struck by air defense over the Ukrainian city of Reni, DIGI24 has reported.

According to the statement, Dan said Russia was responsible for the incident and said residents could return to their apartments, except for the family directly affected by the explosion. He also said the two injured people hospitalized had minor injuries and were recovering well.
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The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) denies and rejects any accusations made by Chairman of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy Danylo Hetmantsev regarding the insufficiency or absence of supervisory actions by the regulator, calling them groundless and manipulative.

"We view these unfounded direct public accusations as bias and politically motivated pressure on the National Bank," the NBU board said in its official position regarding Hetmantsev's statements.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a decree creating a separate structure within the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, the Chamber of Regional Youth Congresses.

"Today is an important day and important decisions have been made that define a new role and emphasize the fundamental importance of young people in the development of the Ukrainian state, local self-government and the future of a new European Ukraine," Deputy Head of the President's Office of Ukraine and Head of the Chamber of Regions of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Viktor Mykyta said, commenting on the president's decision.
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Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen has announced that President of the Republic Alexander Stubb has decided to send Ukraine the 33rd package of military assistance.

The Defense Ministry said in a press release that the value of the military equipment to be transferred is approximately EUR 128 million. The package includes both supplies from the reserves of the Defense Forces and materials purchased from domestic industry.
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The first batch of Swedish JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets will arrive in Ukraine within the next 10 months together with long-range Meteor missiles, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has said.

"Gripen aircraft with Meteor missiles can help push Russian aviation farther away and reduce the enemy's ability to make massive use of aerial bombs," the ministry said on its website.
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Polish Foreign Ministry State Secretary Marcin Bosacki, during a conversation with Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Bodnar on May 28, expressed "deep dissatisfaction" with the decision to grant an elite unit of the Special Operations Forces the title "Heroes of UPA" (the Ukrainian Insurgent Army).

According to the Polish Foreign Ministry, this position was also expressed on May 29 by Polish charge d'affaires in Kyiv Piotr Lukasiewicz during a conversation with Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleksandr Mischenko.
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Three people, including two men and a woman, were injured as a result of an enemy drone strike on a gas pipeline in the central part of Kherson, the city military administration has said.

According to the city military administration, the incident occurred at around 23:00 on May 29, when an enemy drone hit a gas pipeline in the city center.
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Since the start of the day, 228 combat clashes have taken place, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in operational information as of 22:00 on Friday.

"The enemy carried out 63 air strikes and dropped 190 guided aerial bombs. In addition, it used 5,508 kamikaze drones for strikes and carried out 1,922 attacks on settlements and positions of our troops," the General Staff said.
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On the night of May 30, operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) carried out a series of deep strikes on enemy fuel infrastructure facilities.

"Operators of the 1st Separate Center hit a shadow fleet oil tanker on the territory of Kurgannefteprodukt oil depot. After that, the unit struck the tanks of the oil depot itself," the USF press service said on Telegram.
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Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has said he discussed with Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen the further development of the Danish model of defense support and the expansion of cooperation in weapons production.

According to Fedorov, the Danish model has already made it possible to attract $3 billion to support Ukrainian production of drones, electronic warfare systems and missiles.
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Founder of The Rebuild Watch Company, Finnish watchmaker Leo Winter, has donated part of the proceeds from the sale of a limited series of watches made from metal from a destroyed Russian tank to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS).

"The story began in February 2022. Winter wanted to ‘create something good out of something bad.’ This is how the Rebuild Watch startup and a series of watches called Ctrl Z appeared," the URCS said on Facebook.
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