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Reuters: The International Monetary Fund said on Monday it has completed its eighth review under an extended arrangement as part of the Extended Fund Facility for Ukraine, providing the country with a disbursement of about $500 million.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine has received a 2.5 billion Canadian dollar ($1.7 billion) loan from Canada under the G7's Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) initiative. Under the ERA mechanism, Ukraine is expected to get $50 billion in loans that will be repaid using future profits from frozen Russian assets.

The Moscow Times: One of the largest coal mines in Siberia’s Kemerovo region has suspended operations amid severe financial distress, leaving hundreds of workers without pay and highlighting growing instability in Russia’s coal heartland.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces have stabilized the situation in Sumy Oblast and pushed the Russian army further away from Sumy, the region's capital, Ukraine's General Staff reported on June 30.

Reuters: The European Union and Ukraine have reached an initial deal on future agricultural exports to the bloc, European trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic told reporters on Monday.

The Kyiv Independent: The Ukrainian military on June 30 denied the latest reports that Russian troops had entered Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

Bloomberg: Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project raised production to record levels during the last days of June as the facility appears to have resumed loading cargoes (archive).

Reuters: Polish refiner Orlen will not buy Russian oil for its Czech refinery after June 30, Chief Executive Ireneusz Fafara said on Monday. "We freed Central Europe from Russian oil today," Fafara told a news conference.

The Moscow Times: Mariupol children undergo pro-Russian indoctrination at St. Petersburg ‘wellness camps’. Billed as health and wellness retreats for children who lived through Russian shelling, the camps teach children to develop respect and love for the country that now occupies their home city.

AFP: Georgia's border service has been holding dozens of Ukrainians deported from Russia in a "basement" while they await permission to enter the country, a humanitarian aid group said on Monday. Most of the Ukrainians were prisoners who completed their sentences and were subsequently ordered to leave.

Reuters: Authorities in Azerbaijan arrested two journalists from the local branch of a Russian state news agency on Monday in a move likely to further stoke tensions with Moscow following arrests in Russia of ethnic Azerbaijanis suspected of serious crimes.

Cuba: a Reuters review of various sites on the ground suggests that where many of Russia's most recent promises have fizzled, China has discreetly stepped up to fill the void, pushing ahead with a number of critically-timed projects aimed at helping Cuba salvage its economy.

FT: Poland will boost its production of howitzer ammunition fivefold as the country seeks to reduce dependence on imported weaponry and protect itself from the Russian threat in the east, according to state assets minister Jakub Jaworowski (archive).

Reuters: Germany expects the EU's plan for an 18th sanctions package against Russia to be adopted this week, a government spokesperson said in Berlin on Monday.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on June 30 rebuked Slovakia's foreign minister after he suggested the international community might "perhaps even forgive" Russia's actions and reengage in dialogue with Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.

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