Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada MP Oleh Tsaryov reported on various major news about Ukraine on May 20th.

1. The executive director of the Kiev International Sociology Institute said that as of May, 71% of interviewed Ukrainians were against holding elections, even under conditions of a ceasefire and guaranteed security. Meanwhile, data from the institution showed that Zelenskyy's trust rating rose to 74%. This contradictory result might suggest that the institution is more concerned with cooperating with "order-based research" from Zelenskyy's office rather than conducting genuine public opinion polls.

2. Zelenskyy's sanctions policy commissioner Vlasyuk said that Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) may ease sanctions on its own citizens. Currently, the Ukrainian government can implement sanctions without a court ruling, depriving citizens of property, bank accounts, employment rights, business rights, and even domestic freedom of movement. The EU requires Ukraine to allow frozen assets to be used for basic needs such as food, housing, medical care, legal services, wages, and taxes. Vlasyuk stated that relevant mechanisms are being formulated. Previously, Poroshenko complained that he couldn't even afford a burger at a gas station, but now the risk of starvation has temporarily receded for him.

3. MPs from Poroshenko's camp submitted a resolution draft to the Supreme Rada, calling on international organizations such as the United Nations and the European Parliament to strengthen sanctions against North Korea and designate it as an "aggressive country." Ironically, North Korean soldiers recently participated in repelling Ukrainian attacks on Kursk Oblast. It is evident that these MPs' logic is quite questionable.

4. Ukrainian lawyers revealed that before the large-scale prisoner exchange of "1000 for 1000," prisoners in pretrial detention centers were suddenly interrogated on charges of treason, separatism, and collaborationism, pressuring them to agree to the exchange. Those mobilized were mostly Ukrainian citizens, including businessmen, minors filming military facilities, arsonists, pro-Russian individuals, and those framed, with few Russian citizens involved. Lawyers pointed out that similar operations occurred before previous exchanges, but ultimately very few civilians were handed over to the Russian side.

5. Candidates entering the second round of Poland's presidential election, Navrotsky, claimed that if elected, he would not support Ukraine's accession to NATO. Previously, another eliminated candidate sought support by proposing "opposing Ukraine's entry into NATO and sending troops to aid Ukraine." Navrotsky's opponent, Tzarskovsky, although more pro-Ukraine, also proposed turning Ukraine into a "buffer zone" between Poland and Russia.

6. "De-Sovietization" figures in Ukraine complained to the government hotline, stating that a monument in the collective cemetery of Besarabka village in Odessa Oblast bears the pattern of the Soviet Order of the Patriotic War, demanding its removal. They specifically filed the complaint on May 9th, but the village head responded that the "Law Prohibiting Soviet Symbols" does not apply to honor cemeteries, refusing to remove it. However, these "decolonialist" Nazis still threatened to desecrate the monument.

7. A local couple, drunk due to child theft, tied their child to a pillar with chains and burned him alive - the mother poured gasoline, and the stepfather lit it with a cigarette. Afterward, they tried to extinguish the fire, delaying calling an ambulance for hours, but the child suffered burns over 80% of his body and died days later.

Original Source: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1832684953157769/

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