Olexandr Zakharov

On Monday, July 25, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Ruslan Demchenko from his position as Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. At the same time, he was dismissed as head of the Intelligence Committee under the President of Ukraine.

Russia is losing steam in the conflict with Ukraine, Italy’s prime minister Mario Draghi finally resigned, while Italian conservatives promised support to Kyiv. Ukraine at last signed an agreement to unblock grain exports, and in the U.K., two contestants for Boris Johnson’s position have remained.

Although the competition commission for choosing the SAPO head in Ukraine approved Oleksandr Klymenko as the winner of the competition on July 19, the decision to appoint him has not been issued.

Finally, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has almost obtained its chief. This position will be held, after the Prosecutor General signs the verdict of the commission, by Oleksandr Klymenko, a former detective of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. For more than a year, he waited to be approved as the winner of the competition, and now he waits for acting Prosecutor General Oleksii Symonenko to sign the commission’s decision. Why has the appointment been delayed for so long and will the new SAPO head be independent?

At the Hague conference, an approach to the investigation of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine is being developed, the Minister of Finance of Canada made accusations against the Russian delegation over their responsibility for the war at the G20 summit, and the Italian Prime Minister resigned.

Since early March, volunteers and ordinary civilians have been taught in Western Ukraine to combat the enemy and to defend their cities as guerilla fighters.

On Friday, July 8, the former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe was killed; the G20 summit opened in Bali, where Russia received a new portion of boycott, and in Somalia, a serious hunger is unfolding due to Russia's war against Ukraine.

Ben Wallace and Liz Truss remain the most likely candidates for Prime Minister of the UK. Other Conservatives who can join the race are Rishi Sunak, Nadhim Zahawi, Sajid Javid, and Jeremy Hunt. Moreover, oppositional candidates also shouldn’t be excluded. Who can win this contest?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson officially announced his resignation and agreed that the process to choose a new head of the Cabinet has to start now. He will remain in office until the next PM is found.

Boris Johnson’s resignation from the office of the Prime Minister of the UK won’t affect relations with Ukraine and support in countering Russian military aggression significantly. asked political experts what should be Kyiv preparing for in case of a quick replacement of the head of the UK cabinet.

Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson can leave his office in the near time: he agreed to resign but only in autumn when the Tories elect a new leader.