In the 17th July news release, we discuss several key events: the Ukrainian parliament confirms former vice prime minister Julia Sviredenko as the new prime minister; Lidija Lasmane Doroņina, a member of the Latvian National Resistance Movement, receives a government commendation article as she approaches her 100th birthday; the United Kingdom and Germany sign a bilateral defense cooperation agreement for the first time since World War II; and a thunderstorm hits the capital, striking a television tower in Zāķusal.
