Donbas

Restoring the infrastructure in parts of Donbas that was damaged during the war will cost about $15 billion.

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations sent its 53rd convoy with so-called ‘humanitarian aid’ to Luhansk.

Chief of the General Staff Viktor Muzhenko was questioned in the case of Major General Viktor Nazarov who is accused of negligence of duty, which led to the deaths of 49 people in the sky above Luhansk on June 14, 2014.

The Security Service of Ukraine has uncovered actions of the Chief of Staff of the Russian mission at the Joint Center on Control and Coordination (JCCC) on issues related to the ceasefire regime that are contrary to the Minsk agreements.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko is considering removing his political party UDAR from Petro Poroshenko Bloc (BPP).

Militants’ checkpoints in the non-government controlled parts of Donbas are only 30–40% manned, the Head of Donetsk Oblast Civil–Military Administration Pavlo Zhebrivskyi said.

The Ukrainian delegation to PACE is drafting a letter to express its outrage with Annual Report of the Secretary-General not mentioning multiple violations of human rights in Crimea and Donbas.

The ‘Normandy four’ leaders may meet in early July before the NATO summit scheduled for July 8-9 in Warsaw.

Militants opened mass artillery shelling against Ukrainian forces near Vodiane village close to the city of Mariupol in Donbas.

Kostiantyn Yeliseiev, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, uttered that Ukraine insists on deploying an OSCE armed mission in Donbas to ensure safe elections there.

The installation of new TV towers in a number of cities in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts will cost ₴12–20 million.

George Tuka thinks it would make sense to offer combatants who fight in the ATO zone preferential loans for business instead of social benefits and pensions after they demobilize.

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko speaks of the Russian military threat to Ukraine not only from the South-East direction and Donbas, but also from Crimea.

Poroshenko stated that the restoration of Ukraine’s control over its borders on the temporarily occupied territories is a key to carry out the Minsk Agreement, as he greeted the Ukrainian border guards.

According to the Russian president, in order to achieve an effective ceasefire in Donbas, Ukraine needs to decentralize its regions and pass the Law on the Special Status of Donbas, as well as grant amnesty to militants.

The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov said that militants in Donbas intensified their shelling of Ukrainian positions as prohibited by the Minsk Agreements.

On May 16, 2016 militants who are temporarily controlling certain rayons of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts conducted 18 attacks on Ukrainian forces.

In Debaltseve, a city in the part of Donetsk Oblast which is currently not controlled by the Ukrainian government, a shooting occurred between the two Russian servicemen who wanted to ran away for home and a unit of the Russian National Guard that arrived to arrest them.