Alexander Zakharchenko, the president of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), said that local elections in the breakaway region in eastern Ukraine will take place on October 18.

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and security considerations*. The situation at and around Donetsk airport was tense. The SMM did not observe any “DPR” presence in Shyrokyne.   

Roundup of the day for July 02-03, 2015
1. The situation over the last day in the DPR and the LPR.
2. OSCE observers will not go to the elections in Donbass without the consent of Kiev.
3. The United States condemned the DPR plans to hold local elections.
4. Verkhovna Rada to recalculate foreign currency loans at the old rate.

Restructuring the Ukrainian debt, and even a default, will not have a great impact on the Ukrainian domestic market, the deputy governor of Ukraine's National Bank.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and US Assistant Secretary of State will meet on July 9 to discuss how Washington can increase its influence on Kiev to implement the Minsk agreements.

The Russian delegation regretted that the work on Ukraine had not been launched yet due to being blocked by Ukraine and the US, a member of the Russian delegation to the OSCE PA says

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently called on Ukraine and its creditors to continue negotiations on the country's debt, but the editor-in-chief of the business and finance media company thinks that Kiev should instead concentrate on “fixing what is absolutely, chronically broken economy” and launch immediate reforms.

On June 23 Denis Polishchuk was released on bail of five million hryvnias ($230,000)

According to French Foreign Ministry spokesman, authorities are reviewing Ukraine’s constitutional reforms proposed by President Petro Poroshenko to see if they conform to the Minsk agreements on reconciliation.