Olexandr Zakharov

The Verkhovna Rada, after 11 years of battles over the scary word "gender", passed the Istanbul Convention, albeit with its own reservations. How will it protect the rights of women and why was it not passed earlier?

On June 17, Western media report about the European Commission recommendations that the EU grant Ukraine the status of a candidate to join the bloc, whether Ukraine will obtain real candidate status and how the Kremlin will respond to this.

On Thursday, June 16, the most controversial leaders of Ukraine's allies — French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi — visited Kyiv. Moreover, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis joined the trio's visit.

One of the main topics on June 6-10 in the Western media, apart from the possibility of Ukraine's accession to the EU, was Vladimir Putin's imperial dream of grading up to Tsar Peter the Great.

On June 23-24, the European Commission may grant Ukraine the status of a candidate member of the EU. At the same time, the path to full membership can take years. What worries Western leaders?

The Supreme Court of the so-called "DPR" sentenced three foreigners who had fought on the side of Ukraine and had been held captive by militants for a long time to death.

Boris Johnson was able to overcome a vote of no confidence in the British House of Commons and for at least another year, if he himself does not resign or the terms for initiating votes are not changed, he will remain Prime Minister of Great Britain.

The well-known lawyer Masi Nayyem, who had been seriously injured and had been in a medication sleep after the surgery, regained consciousness.

China has disappointed Russia by not being in a hurry to help it resist sanctions over the war in Ukraine. At the same time, Beijing itself is losing confidence in the West and, if not economically, then informationally disseminates Kremlin propaganda in the media controlled by the authorities.

On the eve of 100 days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the most well-known Western media published analyzing how the war could develop further, while at the same time repeating a number of Russian narratives that Ukrainians might get tired of fighting and want to compromise with Putin themselves.

Ukraine has been at war with Russia after a full-scale invasion for 100 days already — as military observer Kyrylol Danilchenko wrote in a special article for , we saw how Moscow had cosplayed the United States in Iraq and why this cosplay turned out to be extremely unsuccessful.

Today, June 3, marks 100 days of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine. We have already reported about how the West showed an iron fist against Putin, but is still afraid to arm Kyiv too quickly.

June 3 marks 100 days of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine. The rhetoric of the West during these 100 days, on the one hand, has changed from "Kyiv will fall in three days" to "we will move heaven and earth for Ukraine’s victory."

Ukraine will get new medium-range missile systems, but it had to promise not to use them on the territory of the Russian Federation. The Kremlin's propaganda media, however, are still in a state of hysteria, judging by the headlines "all this will attack Russia."

The new agreement reached by EU leaders on the sixth round of sanctions against Russia will cover about 75% of Russian oil imports, with Hungary getting all or almost all it wanted for itself.