Ukraine’s national team played a 0-0 draw with Belgium in the third match of the 2024 European Football Championship.
In a parallel match, the national teams of Slovakia and Romania also played a draw 1:1.
Thus, all national teams scored four points, but Ukraine took the last place in the group on additional indicators – the worst goal difference.
Romania took the first place in the group, followed by Belgium and Slovakia. All of them will continue playing at the European Championship. Ukraine is eliminated from the tournament.
As reported, the first match Ukraine lost to Romania with a score of 0:3, and in the second – beat Slovakia with a score of 2:1.
Only cases of document forgery reach the court
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, 188 criminal proceedings on raiding were recorded in 5 months of this year. This is already 1.3 times more than in the same period in 2023. Most proceedings are opened under Art. 205-1 “Forgery of documents”.
The number of raiding cases has been growing in recent years, but has not yet reached the levels before the full-scale invasion. Since the beginning of the year, 188 proceedings have been opened under articles on raiding. This is 1.3 times more than in the same period last year in 2023 – 147 proceedings. However, it is still two times less than in 2021 – 398 cases.
On the eve of the full-scale invasion, an average of 50 new cases were registered every month. At the beginning of this year, 32 new proceedings were opened per month, and in May their number reached 52.
In general, raiding cases are opened under the articles on forgery of documents (Article 205-1 of the Criminal Code), counteraction to legitimate economic activity (Article 206 of the Criminal Code) and illegal seizure of company property (Article 206-2 of the Criminal Code), etc.
Most often, raiding is recorded through forgery of documents: 138 or 73% of all cases this year.
Since the beginning of the year, 29 and 21 criminal proceedings have been opened for counteracting legitimate business activities and unlawful seizure of company property, respectively. It is worth noting that since the beginning of the year, no new cases of obstruction of business activities and unlawful seizure of company property have been brought to court.
According to the Anti-Raiding Office, the number of complaints about raider attacks is growing year on year. 1,255 complaints were received in the first 5 months of this year. For comparison, there were 1,905 such complaints for the whole of last year.
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Uzbekistan is discussing a possible decrease in the flow of labor migrants to Russia due to the growing demand for labor within the country. This was stated by Alisher Ruziyev, head of the Department of the Agency for External Labor Migration under the Ministry of Employment and Poverty Reduction.
In recent years, the number of labor migrants from Uzbekistan to Russia has decreased from 4-6 million to one million. According to the press secretary of the President of Uzbekistan, Sherzod Asadov, this negative trend is due to the success of the reforms being implemented in the country.
He noted that Uzbekistan is currently experiencing a construction boom, so workers’ salaries have already approached the level of some facilities in Russia. This leads to a situation where many citizens may not see the point in labor migration to Russia because salaries in the country are becoming more competitive, AN Prime reports.
In addition, it is noted that in recent years, the Agency for External Labor Migration has expanded the geography of employment of Uzbek citizens abroad, which has helped to meet the demand for labor in Europe. This is part of the agency’s strategy to adapt to changing labor market conditions.
According to official data, about two million Uzbek citizens are working outside the country, including about one million in Russia, which is about 20% of the economically active population.
PJSC “Ukrnafta” (Kiev) on June 25 announced a tender for liability insurance services for holders of a special permit for the use of oil and gas bearing subsoil in the development of oil and gas bearing subsoil in cases provided for by the law “On Oil and Gas”, reported in the system of electronic public procurement Prozorro.
The expected cost of the purchase of services is UAH 943,160 thousand.
According to the system, the last day for submission of tender offers is July 3.
State Enterprise “Chernobyl NPP” June 25 announced a tender for compulsory civil liability insurance of owners of land vehicles (CMTPL).
As reported in the system of electronic public procurement Prozorro, the expected cost of the purchase of insurance services is 103.8 thousand UAH.
Documents for participation in the tender are accepted until July 3.
The membership negotiations began on Tuesday, a landmark move aimed in particular at signaling a vote of confidence in Ukraine’s future.
The European Union launched accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova on Tuesday, June 25, setting the fragile ex-Soviet states on a long path towards membership that Russia has tried to block. The landmark move is aimed in particular at signaling a vote of confidence in Ukraine’s future as Moscow has momentum on the battlefield almost two and a half years into the Kremlin’s invasion.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called it a “historic day” ahead of the start of talks between officials from Kyiv and the EU’s 27 member states in Luxembourg. “We will never be derailed from our path to a united Europe and to our common home of all European nations,” the Ukrainian leader wrote on social media.
Ukraine and later its neighbour Moldova lodged their bids to join the EU in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s all-out assault in February 2022. The start of the talks marks just the beginning of a protracted process of reforms strewn with political obstacles that will likely take many years — and may never lead to membership.
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Standing in the way along that journey will be not just Russia’s efforts at destabilisation but reticence from doubters inside the EU, most notably Hungary. But European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen called the opening of talks “very good news for the people of Ukraine, Moldova, and the entire European Union. The path ahead will be challenging but full of opportunities,” she wrote on X on Tuesday.
So far, Ukraine – represented at the talks by Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna – has won plaudits for kickstarting a raft of reforms on curbing graft and political interference, even as war rages. “Today is a historic day for Ukraine and Moldova, but also for the EU,” said Germany’s Europe minister Anna Luehrmann. “Both countries have made enormous progress in the area of the rule of law, the fight against corruption and freedom of the press.”
Complex process
Russia’s war in Ukraine has reinvigorated a push in the EU to take on new members, after years in which countries particularly in the Western Balkans made little progress on their hopes to join. The EU in December 2023 also granted candidate status to another of Russia’s former Soviet neighbours, Georgia. It likewise approved accession negotiations with Bosnia and has talks ongoing with Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and North Macedonia.
The meetings with Ukraine and Moldova on Tuesday will set off a process of screening of how far laws in the countries already comply with EU standards and how much more work lies ahead. Once that is done the EU then has to begin laying out conditions for negotiations on 35 subjects – from taxation to environmental policy.
It appears unlikely that there will be progress onto the next step in the coming six months, when Hungary – the friendliest country to Russia in the bloc – holds the EU’s rotating presidency. “It’s very difficult to say at what stage Ukraine is,” said Hungary’s Europe minister Janos Boka. “From what I see here as we speak, they are very far from meeting the accession criteria.”
The start of the talks resonates powerfully in Ukraine as it was a desire for closer ties with the EU that sparked protests back in 2014 that eventually spiralled into the full-blown crisis with Russia. The talks also come at a tense time in Moldova after the United States, Britain and Canada warned of a Russian “plot” to influence the country’s presidential elections coming up in October.
Wedged between war-torn Ukraine and EU member Romania, Moldova’s pro-Western authorities frequently accuse the Kremlin of interfering in its internal affairs. President Maia Sandu has accused Moscow – which has troops stationed in a breakaway region of the country – of aiming to destabilise Moldova ahead of the vote. “Our future is within the European family,” Sandu wrote on X. “We are stronger together.”
Le Monde with AFP
