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The Cabinet of Ministers will allocate nearly 939 million hryvnias from the Finnish-Ukrainian Investment Fund to the development of distributed gas-fired power generation in Ukraine. The funds will be directed towards Ukrnafta projects in the Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv regions.
The government is preparing to launch the ‘Houses in the Countryside’ scheme for internally displaced persons. Local authorities will be able to purchase vacant houses in rural areas and make them available to displaced persons on social housing terms.
Journalists analysed the asset declarations of MPs from the ninth parliament and identified 15 MPs who had declared firearms. In total, this amounts to over 340 firearms.
James Gandy, an 81-year-old American actor known for his roles in the films *Jumanji*, *Top Gun: Maverick* and *Logan*, has been killed in Los Angeles. The police have already arrested a suspect.
The Pentagon may scrap plans to supply Germany with Tomahawk missiles over fears that Russia would view this as an escalation.
The US House of Representatives has passed the Ukraine Support Act, which provides for aid to Ukraine, direct loans and new sanctions against Russia.
Political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko stated that Kirill Budanov’s approval ratings began to rise following his appointment as head of the President’s Office and his active involvement in the negotiation process.
The Verkhovna Rada may consider the dismissal of Oksen Lisovyi, the Minister of Education and Science, as early as next week. MPs cite the situation regarding the National Multidisciplinary Test (NMT) and the academic workload placed on final-year students during the war as among the reasons for their criticism.
Ukraine will formally submit President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s open letter to Putin via diplomatic channels. The Foreign Ministry has stated that the document contains a proposal to end the war and an invitation to a face-to-face meeting.
The Kremlin has stated that it has seen Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s open letter to Putin, but that the Russian president has yet to be briefed on it. Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has once again invited Zelenskyy to visit Moscow.
US President Donald Trump has said it would be “wonderful” if Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin were to meet to discuss ending the war.
On 5 June, according to the new church calendar, Ukraine commemorates the Venerable Prince Igor of Chernihiv and Kyiv, as well as the Igor Icon of the Mother of God.
