Daily Digest: Top news of Wednesday, July 24
- The vote count in the parliamentary election is almost completed. Only two districts still count their votes, leaving just two seats vacant. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s party won the unprecedented 255 seats in the 424-member parliament.
- And guess what Zelensky’s party is doing to its 255 new lawmakers? It’s sending them to school.
- Motor Sich is going through rough times: The aerospace firm is investigated for alleged ‘financing of terrorism.’
- Russian Supreme Court upheld a 6-year sentence for Ukrainian political prisoner Pavlo Gryb, despite his defense calling attention to inconsistent and inadmissible evidence used against him.
- Zelensky’s administration asked the government to fire Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko from the position of the head of Kyiv State Administration, a job similar to the state-appointed governor of Kyiv. Klitschko has held both jobs, the mayor and the governor, but Zelensky wants to end it.
- Meanwhile, Zelensky had his first meeting with G7 ambassadors.
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