PAR Party Demands Clarity from Ministers on School Meals Program

The remains of Ukrainian nationalist Yevhen Konovalets, who was assassinated in Rotterdam in 1938, were exhumed on Tuesday from the Crooswijk cemetery in the Netherlands. Konovalets was a prominent leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and was killed by a Soviet NKVD agent using an exploding box of chocolates. His remains are now being transported from Rotterdam to Kyiv, Ukraine, in a historically significant repatriation. Konovalets is considered a controversial but important historical figure in Ukrainian national identity, particularly in the context of the ongoing war with Russia. The repatriation carries symbolic weight as Ukraine continues to assert its national identity and historical narrative amid the Russian invasion. The transfer marks the end of more than eight decades since Konovalets was buried on Dutch soil.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that Ukraine has submitted new peace proposals to American negotiators in an effort to end the ongoing war with Russia. The proposals represent Ukraine's latest diplomatic attempt to find a path toward a ceasefire or broader resolution to the conflict. However, analysts and Ukraine's military intelligence service are skeptical that Russia will cooperate with or seriously engage in the peace process. The move comes amid continued fighting and signals that Kyiv is working through U.S. intermediaries to advance negotiations. The gap between Ukrainian openness to dialogue and Russian intransigence remains a central obstacle to any resolution. The development highlights the pivotal role the United States continues to play as a key broker in the conflict.

Latvian border guards discovered a 10-meter underground tunnel on Monday that migrants were using to cross illegally from neighboring Belarus without detection. Fifteen people were found near the tunnel at the time of discovery. The tunnel represents a new and more sophisticated method of illegal border crossing along the EU's eastern frontier. Latvia, like several other Baltic and Eastern European nations, has faced ongoing pressure from irregular migration flows linked to Belarus, which the EU has accused of orchestrating migrant crossings as a form of political pressure. The discovery underscores the lengths to which migrants — and potentially those facilitating their movement — will go to circumvent border security measures. Latvian authorities have significantly reinforced their border infrastructure in recent years in response to the ongoing migration crisis.