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- Parliament approved a first-reading bill to tax foreign parcels, advancing IMF and EU funding conditions.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the parcel tax is an “unpleasant and unpopular” measure.
- The parcel-tax reform could unlock about €4 billion in EU macro-financial support for Ukraine.
- Ukraine plans to allocate two-thirds of its 2027 budget—about 4.9 trillion hryvnia—to defence.