This week in history

June 24 1934: Ukraine's highest state and party institutions are transferred from Kharkiv to Kyiv, the new capital city.

1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares that the US government is prepared to aid the Soviet Union in its war against Nazi Germany.

June 25 Ukrainian Customs Day 1992: The All-Ukrainian Orthodox Church Council resolves to unite the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church into a single Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate.

June 26 1919: The Komsomol of Ukraine is founded at the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Working Youth Communist Organizations in Kyiv.

1994: As a result of the presidential elections in Ukraine, none of the candidates win the legally required number of votes. Another round will be held.

June 27 1964:A monument to the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in Washington, D.C..

2001: On the last day of his visit to Ukraine, Pope John Paul II takes part in a Byzantine liturgy celebrated at the Lviv Race Track, which is attended by 1.5 million faithful.

June 28 1940: The Red Army occupies Bessarabia and Northern Bukovyna.

1996: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopts the new Constitution of Ukraine.

June 29 1945: The USSR and Czechoslovakia sign a treaty annexing Western Ukraine to the Ukrainian SSR.

1995: President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine signs an edict instituting the national "Teacher of the Year" competition.

June 30 1945:The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR addresses a message to the people in connection with the signing of the treaty between the USSR and Czechoslovakia on Transcarpathian Ukraine and the completion of the process of the reunification of the Ukrainian lands.

1992: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes a bill on the delimitation of powers between the state bodies of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.