The shadow cabinet has approved the text of a letter to the International Monetary Fund in which it warns the IMF's executive board against granting Ukraine a new loan until the Ukrainian Parliament has taken a decision which would make it impossible to use the loan for payment to RosUkrEnergo. The text of the letter was approved at a meeting of the shadow cabinet in Kyiv today.

The pro-presidential Party of Regions has revealed its intention to revoke the political reform which curtailed presidential powers, 5 Kanal TV reported today. The leader of the party’s parliamentary faction, Oleksandr Yefremov, said that his political force was going to correct the consequences of the constitutional amendments adopted in 2004.

The Ukrainian Parliament today voted to hold an evening sitting on Wednesday, July 7. A total of 247 MPS voted in favor. Deputy speaker Adam Martynyuk said that the proposal was tabled because this is most likely the last plenary week of the current session of Parliament and “there are a lot of draft bills”.

The Ukrainian Parliament today adopted a law in its second and third readings (No 5296) on real guarantees for Ukraine's nuclear-free status. A total of 345 lawmakers out of the 429 registered in the session hall voted in favor of the document.

The Ukrainian Parliament today failed to dismiss five judges of the Constitutional Court for breach of oath. Voting to dismiss judges Mykhaylo Kolos, Anatoliy Holovin, Pavlo Tkachuk, Vyacheslav Ovcharenko and Mariya Markush failed to garner the necessary minimum of 226 votes.

The Ukrainian Parliament adopted the law on the principles of domestic and foreign policy at about midnight yesterday. A total of 259 MPs voted in favor of the document. It sets obtaining membership of the European Union and maintaining good-neighbourly relations with Russia as aims.

Vitaliy Kurylo, an MP of the opposition Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, has joined the ruling Stability and Reforms coalition.