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Ukraine is preparing a new tax scheme for imported parcels worth up to €150, which could change the rules for shopping on international marketplaces.
Bill No. 15224-5 has been tabled in the Verkhovna Rada, proposing to increase the minimum wage, the minimum old-age pension and the subsistence level in 2026.
A Ukrainian bank manager wanted on suspicion of defrauding clients has been arrested in Kristiansand, Norway.
The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that it will regard any potential Russian strikes on diplomatic missions in Kyiv as deliberate and intentional acts.
Ukraine plans to update the rules governing the use of water resources and to increase penalties for breaches.
The Cabinet of Ministers has amended the rules on small-scale privatisation: leased state and municipal property will now only be sold via open online auctions following renovation or modernisation.
The ICRC has updated its commentary on Article 50 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which sets out the protection of children in occupied territories.
Oleksandr Lomako, the former acting mayor of Chernihiv, stated at a meeting of the Temporary Investigation Commission that the city’s military administration had been obstructing the work of the city authorities and blocking budgetary decisions.
The Verkhovna Rada has criticised the government’s draft amendments to the 2026 state budget over the reallocation of 40 billion hryvnias in Ministry of Defence expenditure.
Ihor Myroniuk, who appears in the Mindich case files under the pseudonym “Rocket”, denied at the TSK hearing that he had been an adviser to the Minister of Energy, and spoke about his contacts with Herman Halushchenko and the work on the corporatisation of “Energoatom”.
On 26 May, Orthodox Christians commemorate the Apostles of the Seventy, Carpus and Alphaeus, and this day is commonly known as Carpus Day.
Ukraine has already received permission to reburial Yevhen Konovalets, the founder and first leader of the OUN.
