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According to “Evropeys’ka Pravda”, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmygal announced via his Twitter account on Monday that Ukraine is preparing an application for European Union membership.

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EU agreed to freeze the assets of Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and Minister of foreign affairs, Sergey Lavrov.

Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edgars Rinkevics, said that this decision was made by the Council of the EU at the level of foreign ministers.

Decisions on launching visa-free travel to Europe and the EU-Ukraine summit are expected in October.

When choosing the country’s direction of integration, over half of Ukrainians (51%) choose joining the European Union, according to the results of a study performed by Research & Branding Group.

The EU Ambassador to Ukraine Jan Tombinski, who will leave his post soon, claims that the Ukrainian authorities don’t care enough about the issue of trust.

Ukraine’s Ambassador to the European Union Mykola Tochytskyi denies media reports on granting Ukraine and Georgia visa-free travel from January 1, 2017.

European Union diplomats expect Ukraine and Georgia to be granted visa-free travel in the Schengen Zone by January 1, 2017, according to Rikard Jozwiak, correspondent of Radio Liberty Brussels.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine addressed EU member states, US, Canada, Japan, and the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs asking them to influence Russia in order to avoid a new round of aggression related to the latest events in Crimea.

The European Court of Justice annulled the sanctions against the estate of Viktor Yanukovych Junior, the now-deceased younger son of Ukraine’s ex-president Viktor Yanukovych. The sanctions were introduced in 2014 after the Maidan shootings and the Russian occupation of Crimea

Uzhhorod City Court seized two train cars with wood, the export of which to the EU is banned.

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Kostiantyn Yelisieiev said in the interview to Inter TV Channel that Ukraine has fulfilled all the requirements for the liberalization of visas to the European Union.

Timothy Snyder is an American historian who has been researching the tragic history of the Eastern Europe for many years. Snyder diligently monitors modern day Ukraine and putinist Russia because he considers that many things which are happening here right now can repeat themselves in his native US.

The heads of states and governments of EU member states instructed the Council of the EU to respond to the Netherlands’ concerns over the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

President Petro Poroshenko has forwarded information on the state of implementation of the Minsk Agreements to EU leaders while they are considering whether to continue sanctions on Russia.

Great Britain’s decision to exit the European Union may make it easier for Ukraine to integrate with Europe, the Marshal of the Sejm of Poland Marek Kuchciński said.

Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan believes that Brexit may harm the Open Skies agreement between Ukraine and the EU.

President Poroshenko voiced hopes that Great Britain will remain in “united Europe” and will defend common European values.

The results of the referendum on Britain’s exit from the European Union will have negative consequences for Ukraine.

The final amount of damages Ukraine will sue Russia for in the European Court of Human Rights for occupation of Crimea is to be determined after the Court’s decision.