On the night of June 8 there was an explosion on the property of the US embassy. Police arrived promptly at the scene of the incident. Examination suggested that an unknown person threw an unidentified explosive device onto the diplomatic mission’s property. The perpetrator was caught on the embassy’s surveillance cameras. Representatives of the embassy’s security service showed Ukrainian law enforcement officials the video recording. The news outlet Obozrevatel reported with reference to its …

On June 7-8 there was fierce fighting for the Zholobok settlement in the Luhansk region. Both the Ukrainian side and the separatists reported dozens of killed and injured.

As early as June 2, one of the battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade suddenly moved forward into the gray zone from the Krymskoye settlement in the south towards the separatists’ position along the Bakhmut route. The Ukrainian military managed to advance half a kilometer directly …

Conditions have become favorable for the EU to soften its policy towards Russia in general, and particularly with regards to sanctions, said Vladimir Chizhov, Russia's permanent representative to the EU, in an interview with the newspaper Izvestia.

According to Chizhov, toward the end of the month there will be another discussion of one of the three sets of anti-Russian sanctions, which deals with economic measures. These measures expire on July 31st. Along with this, Chizhov stressed that the …

The amount of cash outside of the banking system is about 300 billion hryvnia ($11.48 billion USD).

UNIAN reports that the Acting Head of the National Bank (NBU), Yakov Smolii, announced this during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Financial Policy and Banking Activity.

"At the current time, there is cash of about 300 billion UAH outside of the banking system," he said.

At the same time, Smolii stressed that such a large amount of cash increases the burden on the National Bank, …

In the South African port of Richards Bay, a second delivery of 75,000 tons of anthracite began loading on a cargo vessel. This coal is intended to replenish the warehouses of the thermal power plants of DTEK holding that belongs to businessman Rinat Akhmetov. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine with reference to General Director of DTEK Energy Dmytro Sakharuk.

"The loading of the vessel will take a little more than a week and its arrival in Ukraine is expected in mid-July," he said. …

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pavlo Klimkin announced at a press conference with Didier Burkhalter, the Head of Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland that Ukraine and Switzerland have agreed to simplify the visa regime between the countries.

“We’ve just signed two agreements. I signed with Didier the agreement on facilitating the visa regime. You know that on June 11, we’ll have a visa-free regime with Switzerland but now we settled all issues in such a way that we have clear rules …

The Cabinet of Ministers established an interdepartmental commission to promote Ukraine, headed by the Minister of Information Policy. The corresponding decision was made at a government meeting on Wednesday, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

State Secretary of the Ministry of Information Policy Artem Bidenko was appointed as the Secretary of the commission. Overall, the commission includes eight representatives of state bodies, two advisers to the prime minister, two representatives of enterprises, …

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, will invest up to $20 million into the Emerging Europe Growth Fund III, L.P. (EEGF III), which is a direct investment fund launched by Horizon Capital mainly for investments in Ukraine. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine with reference to the IFC’s report.

The Board of Directors approved the project at a meeting on June 5. The main investment object of EEGF III will be small- and medium-sized growing enterprises. …