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Three Ukrainian stories from 1 June 2020
Summary
A look back at tremors in Ivano-Frankivsk region, an online awards ceremony and a soldier's abduction near Crimea.
What did Ukraine's news cycle look like on 1 June 2020? It combined a minor natural event with two stories from the preceding days, one cultural and one military.
On 1 June 2020, two earthquakes struck Ivano-Frankivsk region, with their epicentre near the town of Dolyna. Their magnitudes were 3.2 and 2.7, and no casualties were reported.
Events of the preceding days
On 31 May 2020, the winners of the Golden Firebird ("Zolota Zhar-ptytsia") award for 2020 were announced online. Oleh Vynnyk was named singer of the year, and Nastia Kamenskykh was named singer of the year among women.
A day earlier, on 30 May 2020, at about 05:00, Russia abducted Senior Soldier Yevhen Dobrynskyi while he was on duty at the Berloha observation post on the line of control with Crimea.
The three reports were unrelated, but together they show the range of what Ukrainian readers followed at the turn of May and June 2020: a seismic event without harm, an entertainment ceremony held remotely, and a security incident on the boundary with the occupied peninsula.
