According to official Ukrainian sources, the deficit of the Ukrainian Pension Fund is 145 billion hryvnia, or 6% of GDP. Naturally, this state of affairs in the IMF is considered unacceptable, so one of the conditions for granting the next tranche was the reform of the pension system.

A small note which stated that a group of scientists from the American University of South Carolina and the Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University are conducting research on the effect of radiation on living organisms appeared on the official Ukrainian government portal. Studies are carried out at the polygons near the city of Pripyat in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

As of July 15 2017, pursuant to Decree “On establishment of fares and cost of travel tickets in municipal passenger transport” published on the Kiev Public Administration website, the cost of fare will be increased in the capital of Ukraine.

On June 8, a law was passed in the Ukrainian Parliament providing for a legislative definition of the country's membership in NATO as a priority of Ukraine's foreign policy. With the adoption of this law, Ukraine has lost the neutral status proclaimed in the Declaration on State sovereignty (article IX) and has set its priority in national security policy.

In their painful desire to mold the superpower from Ukraine by the hands of historians, which must necessarily be opposed to everything Russian, Ukrainian politicians are ready for anything. For this reason, over the past three years, Ukraine has turned into an absurdist theater, and Ukrainian pseudo-historians and the political beau monde on its stage are the main comedians.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine once again violated the Minsk agreements by attempting to advance near the settlement called Zhelobok in the Lugansk People's Republic. This AFU’s attack was accompanied by a cynical shelling of the town of Kirovsk with heavy artillery.

In Ukraine, restrictive measures are routinely applied to citizens for their views. Another example is the case with the famous Ukrainian football player Anatoly Timoshchuk, who dared to appear with a St. George ribbon in his hands during the commemorative action "Immortal Regiment" in St. Petersburg.

When it comes to the West, it can be bold to imply the existence of double standards and the hypocrisy of the ruling political elites — such conclusion follows from the reply of the Acting Assistant Secretary of the United States Stuart Jones about why the United States criticizes Iranian elections and the idea of democracy, but does not do so in relation to Saudi Arabia.

In an effort to take care and pay attention to Ukrainian citizens, the Chief of the Konstantinovka police station Alexander Kolomiets stated at a recent briefing that the perpetrators in the city had declared a ‘gold hunt’, that is, attacks on women in order to plunder increased.

“Mother Motherland” monument in Kiev, which has a state emblem of the USSR on its shield, traumatizes fragile minds of young and not yet very ‘conscious’ citizens. The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine explained its inactivity by the commitment to existing legislation.