On the eve of the NATO summit in Washington, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk signed a bilateral security agreement in Warsaw. “Those who are defending Ukraine today are also defending themselves,” Tusk said.
The President of Ukraine called the agreement “ambitious”. “It is able to protect the lives of our people and resist Russian evil,” Selenskyy said. The agreement provides for the development of a mechanism by which “Russian missiles and drones fired in the direction of Poland can be shot down in Ukrainian airspace.”
Zelenskyy arrived in Poland on the day of fierce Russian missile attacks on his country that killed at least 26 people. A major children’s hospital in Kyiv was damaged. “There are no words, no documents, no political statements that would be enough to condemn the aggressor,” Tusk said.
Poland, a member of the EU and NATO, is one of the staunchest political and military supporters of Ukraine under attack by Russia. It also serves as an important hub for Western military aid to Kyiv. Poland has also hosted nearly a million refugees from its neighboring country.
Ukraine has concluded security agreements with the EU and 19 individual states, including the United States, Japan, and Germany. They formalize the military and civilian support already provided and offer the prospect of further assistance for an initial period of ten years.
In the afternoon, Selensky will meet with his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda. The NATO summit on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the defense alliance will be held in Washington from July 9 to 11. The heads of state and government of the alliance’s 32 member states are expected to discuss, among other things, further assistance to Ukraine. Zelenskyy is also invited to the meeting. With the airspace over Ukraine closed since the start of the war, Zelenskiy must use the land route through Poland for all foreign travel before he can continue his journey by plane from there.
Source: https://www.zeit.de/news/2024-07/08/polen-und-ukraine-unterzeichnen-sicherheitsabkommen
Yaroslava Maguchikh from Dnipro, the bronze medalist of the 2020 Olympic Games in high jump, on Sunday set a world record by clearing the bar of 2m 10cm.
At the Diamond League stage in Paris, where the Olympic Games will start soon, she broke the record of Stefka Kostadinova from Bulgaria, which had been held since 1987 – 2 m 9 cm.
Before that, at the same competition, Maguchichykh renewed her personal record of 2m 7cm.
Currently, already 30 thousand square kilometers of de-occupied territories of Ukraine are recognized as such, which do not contain evidence of contamination by explosive objects, it is more than 17% of the preliminary assessment of contamination, reported in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
“Today, thanks to our joint work, the area of contaminated territories has already decreased by 30 thousand square kilometers. This means that in these territories were not found or were neutralized detected explosive objects,” – said the head of the Main Department of mine action, civil protection and environmental safety of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Colonel Ruslan Beregulia.
He also emphasized that now the most contaminated remain Kherson, Kharkiv and Mykolayiv regions, where more than 50% of all incidents with explosive objects among civilians have occurred.
According to the colonel, while carrying out demining activities, a comprehensive approach is applied, which, among other things, provides for chemical analysis of soils of agricultural lands for the presence of hazardous substances.
The head of the Main Department of Mine Action also noted that now 78 mechanized demining vehicles of both domestic and foreign production are used for demining of de-occupied territories from explosive objects by demining groups of security and defense forces, as well as by mine action operators.
The ministry recalled that initially the area of potentially explosive contaminated de-occupied territories in Ukraine was estimated at 174 thousand square kilometers, of which 14 thousand square kilometers are water areas.
Speaking at the Dubrovnik Forum on Saturday, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković assured of continued support for Ukraine and recalled the assistance already provided to Kyiv in various areas.
In his speech, Plenković pointed to the negative consequences for Europe and the world of the Covid-19 pandemic, “prolonged by Russian aggression against Ukraine, which has devalued the importance of international law and fundamental principles.”
“On behalf of the Croatian government, I would like to once again express my support for Ukraine, the Ukrainian people, the President, the entire government and thank Minister Kuleba for coming to Dubrovnik today,” the Croatian prime minister said.
He emphasized that there is unity in support of Ukraine among a huge number of countries. Thus, Plenković recalled the recent Global Peace Summit in Switzerland, where, as he noted, about a hundred international organizations and countries were represented, supporting the project of finding a peaceful solution to the consequences of Russian aggression against Ukraine, rather than a solution that would reward the aggressor and thus send a negative signal to other potential aggressors.
“Croatia is helping Ukraine in the political, diplomatic, technical, humanitarian, economic and military spheres, and we will continue to provide all forms of support. Especially given our specific interests in the investigation of war crimes, in humanitarian demining, which we have been facing for 30 years and which we will complete only in March 2026,” Plenković emphasized.
The weather in Ukraine on Sunday, June 30, will be without precipitation, reports Ukrhydrometcenter.
Wind of variable directions, 3-8 m/s.
The temperature will be 16-21° at night, 29-34° during the day, in southern and central regions in some places 32-36°; in the highlands of the Carpathians at night 10-15°, 22-27° during the day.
In Kiev on June 30, no precipitation. Wind of variable directions, 3-8 m/s.
The temperature is about 20° at night and 30-32° during the day.
According to the Central Geophysical Observatory named after Boris Sreznevsky in Kiev. Boris Sreznevsky in Kiev on June 30, the highest daytime temperature was 34.1° in 1898, the lowest nighttime temperature was 7.6° in 1894.
On the first day of July in Ukraine in the western regions, rain with thunderstorms, hail and squalls 15-20 m/s, temperatures at night 15-20°, daytime 27-32°.
In the rest of the territory hot weather without precipitation, the temperature at night 17-22 °, during the day 30-34 °, in the southern part, Kirovograd, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions in some places strong heat 35-37 °.
Wind of variable directions, 3-8 m/s.
In Kiev on July 1, hot weather without precipitation. Wind of variable directions, 3-8 m/s.
The temperature is 20-22° at night and 32-34° during the day.
The prices of sale and purchase of agricultural land in May 2024 significantly increased compared to the previous months and are now the highest for the entire existence of the land market: the weighted average price per hectare in May was 45.0 thousand UAH, which is 8.2% higher than in April 2024, and 5.6% higher than in March this year, according to a study by the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), which is conducted on behalf of the USAID program.
According to analysts, the price of land with the intended purpose “for commercial agricultural production” was even higher and reached UAH 46.2 thousand.
“The above prices are based on the official prices registered in the Register of Property Rights during sale and purchase transactions. Market prices for land can be much higher, because most of all transactions are concluded at a price that does not differ from the normative-monetary valuation (the minimum price established by law for former sub-moratorial lands) by more than 2%,” the KSE clarified.
At the same time, experts believe that a slight decrease in prices in April 2024 and an increase in the cost of agricultural land in May this year is unlikely to be a long-term trend.
Since the beginning of 2024, average land prices remain significantly higher than in previous periods. Consequently, it can be stated that the opening of the land market for legal entities in January 2024 has led to structural changes in the market conditions, and as a consequence has led to an increase in the value of agricultural land, according to the KSE study “Land of Indestructibility”.
