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Today, on June 25, the EU Council decided to extend temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees until March 4, 2026. This is said in a statement published on the website of the EU Council, Ukrinform reports.  “Today, the Council adopted a decision to extend the temporary protection until 4 March 2026 for the more than 4 million Ukrainians fleeing from Russia’s war of aggression,” the statement says. As noted, the temporary protection mechanism was launched on 4 March 2022 and was due to run until 4 March 2025. Read also: About 60% of working-age Ukrainian refugees found a job in Estonia…

Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov addressed UN Secretary General António Guterres and UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay in a letter, urging them to help stop Russian attacks on Kharkiv region. The Kharkiv City Council reported this via Telegram, Ukrinform saw. The letter states that Russia is destroying Ukraine's potential, satisfying its leadership's ambitions by force with complete disregard for international law. Terekhov emphasized that one of the UN goals of sustainable development is the provision of fair, high-quality education, but due to Russia’s armed aggression, comprehensive development of the research and creative potential of Kharkiv residents is deemed impossible. Read also:…

The Greek Volunteer Center ΗΛΙΟΣ for Ukrainian mothers and their children in Peraia sent another humanitarian aid shipment to Ukraine. According to Ukrinform, this is said in a post on the center's Facebook page. "The vehicle is fully loaded with a huge amount of aid. These are clothes, medical devices, as well as 300 kg of lentils, which will be used for special processing of products into porridge and immune mixtures," the post says. The humanitarian aid was sent at the expense of participants of the charitable event organized by the Ilios-Peraia Center and volunteers, as well as with the…

Nearly 700 propagandists operating from the temporarily occupied territories have been exposed, and the Security Service is currently investigating these cases. That’s according to Deputy NSDC Secretary Andriy Kononenko, who spoke during the 3rd International Forum of the Crimea Platform Expert Network. "Recently, I had the honor of presenting research on the media landscape in the temporarily occupied territories. It was there that about 700 propagandists of all stripes surfaced – both outright traitors and Russians who had been deployed to control the process, and I wrapped up my presentation with the words that these case files have already been…

More than 600 children illegally deported by Russia were returned to the Ukrainian-controlled territory, and over 2,000 children were contacted. That’s according to Artur Dobroserdov, Commissioner for Persons Gone Missing Under Special Circumstances, who spoke in an exclusive comment to an Ukrinform correspondent in The Hague. "As part of cooperation with the National Information Bureau, we currently have reports on more than 23,000 children who were deported to the territory of the Russian Federation. So far, we have returned more than 600 such children to the territory under the control of the Ukrainian Government, and it was possible to establish…

The 14th package of EU sanctions against the aggressor state, Russia, which was adopted today by the EU Council of Ministers for Foreign Affairs, contains a direct ban on any trade or other transactions with objects of Ukraine’s cultural or intellectual heritage that were captured amid Russian aggression and removed from Ukraine by Russian invaders. That's according to the European Council press service, Ukrinform reports. "[I]t will be forbidden to purchase, import, transfer or export Ukrainian cultural property goods and other goods of archaeological, historical, cultural, rare scientific or religious importance, where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the…

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that in all regions, at the sites of Russian strikes, maximum efforts are being made to protect people who have found themselves in the most difficult situations amid Russian attacks. Zelensky wrote about this in a caption to a set of photos illustrating the topic of Russian attacks, Ukrinform reports. "In all regions, in every city, and in places under enemy fire, maximum efforts are being made to protect our people in the most difficult situations created by Russia’s terror," the president wrote. Read also: The more we can do, the sooner Russia will…

The national anthem of Ukraine was played at the European Aquatics Championship in Belgrade. Sofia Lyskun and Ksenia Bailo became champions of in synchronized diving from a 10-meter platform, reports Ukrinform with reference to the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The Ukrainian duo received 288.78 points for their performance. Read also: Russian propaganda spreads photo and video fakes about Romanian fans at match with Ukraine It is the first time that Ukraine’s athletes earned the top spot in this discipline at the continental championships. Currently, the Ukrainian national diving team already has 4 EC awards (1 gold, 2 silver, and…

In the Kherson region, residents of three villages - Myroliubivka, Parysheve and Myrne - received humanitarian aid from American philanthropists - family food packages. The Kherson Regional Military Administration said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "Another humanitarian cargo from American benefactors was delivered to the Kherson region. Volunteers of the Global Empowerment Mission Foundation in cooperation with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation distributed family food packages to residents of the villages of Myroliubivka, Parysheve and Myrne," the statement said. As noted, the food packages include long-term storage products: flour, pasta, sugar, cereals, stewed meat, canned food, condensed…

Ukrainian Mykola Balakin will act as the fourth referee for the Albania-Spain group round match of the European Football Championship in Quartet B. According to the official website of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the match will be refereed by Swede Glenn Nyberg, with his assistants on the line being compatriots Mahmoud Beyji and Andreas Soderqvist, Ukrinform reports. The match between Albania and Spain will take place on 24 June in Düsseldorf (starting at 22.00 Kyiv time). Read also: Russian propaganda spreading photo fake to discredit Ukrainian fans at Euro 2024 Tournament position in Group B: Spain -…