Biden's exit from presidential race, the cable break on Kyiv zip line and Farion's memorial service: July 21 highlights
US President Joe Biden left the election race in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris. In Lviv, thousands of people came to say a final goodbye to linguist and political activist Iryna Farion. In the center of Kyiv, the cable on a zip line across the Dnipro River broke: a 20-year-old man died. We collected the main news for July 21.
Biden dropped out of the presidential race
In the evening of July 21, US President Joe Biden announced that he was abandoning his intention to run again for the post of head of state. According to him, he is doing it in the interests of the state and the Democratic Party. Biden also spoke in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic candidate.
She confirmed that she is going to participate in the presidential race, stressing that she will do "everything in her power" to unite the Democratic Party and defeat Republican Donald Trump.
Thousands of people came to Lviv to say a final goodbye to Farion
Farewell to professor and linguist Iryna Farion, who was killed near her home on July 19, took place in Lviv.
The funeral mass began at 7 p.m. Thousands of people came to say a final goodbye to the professor, so not everyone was able to get inside the temple.
Meanwhile, the police released a photo and description of a man who may be involved in the murder. Residents of the building where the professor had lived told about him.
Zip line accident across the Dnipro
On the afternoon of July 21, a zip line broke off in the center of Kyiv across the Dnipro River, which runs from the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People to Trukhaniv Island. At that time, a 20-year-old man was on the attraction.
As of 9:25 p.m., search and rescue efforts did not yield results — the man’s body was not found. The search will continue on July 22.
The Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office said that in 2021 it had tried to stop the operation of this attraction. However, the Kyiv authorities say that the prosecutors did not try to cancel the work of the attraction itself, but only contested the results of the investment competition.
Klitschko talks about a referendum in case of territorial concessions
The mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko believes that in case of territorial concessions in favor of Russia, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy will have to call a referendum to find out public opinion about it.
According to Klitschko, the coming months will be very difficult for the head of state.
The prosecutor's office reacted to the demolition of the Zelenskyi manor
The Prosecutor General's Office has started criminal proceedings regarding the demolition of the Zelenskyi estate in Kyiv.
The building was seized in January 2024 with a ban on use, disposition and alienation within the scope of the case of deliberate illegal destruction, destruction or damage to objects of cultural heritage.
At the same time, the mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko called the destruction of the building a cynical provocation. According to him, the demolition took place a few days after the Department of Cultural Heritage Protection of the Kyiv City State Administration received a package of documentation regarding the assignment of the already destroyed building to the status of a monument.
France did not allow some Russian journalists to the Olympics
France did not allow individual journalists from Russia to cover the summer Olympic Games in Paris. The Minister of Internal Affairs of the country, Gérald Darmanin, explained that there could be spies among them.
At the same time, he noted that some Russians were allowed to work for the International Olympic Committee.
Georgian authorities want to interrogate volunteers who fought for Ukraine
At least three men who volunteered to defend Ukraine were summoned for questioning in Georgia. One of the volunteers, Nadim Khmaladze, said that he was accused of terrorism and coup d'état.
In the Antarctic, in the middle of winter, a positive temperature was recorded
On July 16, a significant increase in the maximum daily temperature was recorded at the Ukrainian station Akademik Vernadsky. The indicators have risen to the positives despite the fact that the Antarctic winter is currently underway.
Overall, over the past five years, temperatures at the station rarely fall below -10°C.
Other news
- A soldier shot a border guard in a hotel in Ternopil: the reason was jealousy.
- In the Carpathians, a man who was planning to reach Romania was rescued: he was diagnosed with hypothermia.
- In Kyiv, a man fell from the 24th floor. The police say that it could be a suicide.
- Belarus has sentenced an employee of the German Red Cross to death.
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