Our RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports that Ukraine's Security Service says it has detained a close associate of rebel leader Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov) in the east (in Ukrainian).
"Ukrainska pravda" reports that a funeral service for Metropolitan Volodymyr, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, will be held July 7 in front of the Dormition Cathedral at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves.
The burial will take place on the monastery grounds at the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God.
Metropolitan Volodymyr, 78, died July 5 after suffering internal bleeding during cancer treatment at a Kyiv clinic. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Volodymyr's "great personal contribution to strengthening Russian-Ukrainian friendship."