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Good morning. We'll get the live blog going today with two stories that RFE/RL's news desk filed overnight:

Zelenskiy To Visit Canada In July To Attend Ukraine Reform Conference

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is scheduled to travel to Canada early next month to take part in a major donor conference and hold talks with top Canadian officials.

The Ukrainian presidential office said in a statement that during his July 1-3 visit, Zelenskiy will hold meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, members of parliament, and business representatives.

Zelenskiy with also attend the Ukraine Reform Conference in Toronto, which is due to run from July 2 to July 4.

Co-hosted by Canada and Ukraine, the gathering will bring together more than 300 people, including foreign ministers, heads of international institutions, and civil society activists to discuss and support Ukraine's reform process.

Zelenskiy was inaugurated as president on May 20. His visit to Canada will come ahead of snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine set for July 21.

On the sidelines of the Toronto conference, Zelenskiy and Trudeau will discuss "Ukraine’s reform efforts on its path to Euro-Atlantic integration, the security situation in the region, and how to further deepen Canada-Ukraine commercial relations," according to a statement by the Canadian prime minister's office.

The two countries "share a deep and historic friendship built on shared values and strong people-to-people bonds," Trudeau said.

During his meeting with Zelenskiy, Trudeau said he will "reaffirm Canada's commitment to the Ukrainian people, and discuss ways to deepen our economic partnership and create good, middle class jobs in both of our countries."

Since 2015, Canadian armed forces have trained more than 12,000 members of the Ukrainian Army as part of Canada’s military training mission in Ukraine, UNIFIER, according to the statement.

More than 1.3 million Canadians are said to trace their ancestry to Ukraine.

With reporting by dpa

U.S. To Give $4 Million Toward Explosives Depots In Ukraine

The United States says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine to enhance the safety of the country’s stockpiles of conventional munitions.

"The memorandum sets out a $4 million U.S. contribution toward construction of six explosive storehouses over the next two years for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense," the State Department said in a statement on June 25.

The document was signed by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs R. Clarke Cooper and the acting director of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's Directorate of International Security, Ruslan Nimchynskyi.

The statement said that the project will "enhance the safety and security of Ukraine’s munitions stockpiles, as well as advance Ukraine closer to its goal of meeting NATO and international standards for physical security and stockpile management."

It said the U.S. Conventional Weapons Destruction program had invested more than $40 million from 2004 to 2018 "in support of Ukraine’s effort to address the legacy of the large quantities of conventional arms and ammunition inherited" after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

In recent years, there have been several explosions and fires at arms depots in Ukraine, a country mired in a simmering war with Russia-backed separatists.

Blasts at a munitions depot near the town of Ichnya in October last year prompted the evacuation of about 12,000 people.

That ends the live blogging for today. See you again tomorrow.