Roberta Mecola was re-elected as President of the European Parliament for another two and a half years until 2027, receiving 562 votes in the first round.
The Verkhovna Rada abolished tax and customs duties on imports of essential equipment, with amendments providing for exemption from duty and VAT on imports of energy equipment.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported a possible air defense operation against an enemy reconnaissance drone in Kharkiv region, and earlier, cruise missiles flying through Sumy region toward Chernihiv region and one moving further toward Kyiv region.
In Kherson, an elderly woman and a volunteer were injured in another attack by Russian troops.
In the EU today, EU ministers will discuss $50 billion in loans to Ukraine from seized Russian assets, ahead of the upcoming G7 ministerial meeting.
Over the past day, 8 residents of Donetsk region were wounded as a result of Russian shelling.
Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal will hold intergovernmental consultations with Czech officials in Prague to discuss ammunition supplies, EU and NATO integration, joint projects, infrastructure, energy, and signing bilateral agreements.
Russian troops attacked Antonivka in the Kherson region, attacking a gas company repair crew with a drone, and injuring the village headman.
Three juveniles aged 15-17 were detained by Polish police for brutally attacking a 17-year-old Ukrainian boy in Zakrzówek, Krakow, cutting off his finger and causing serious injuries.
Russian troops launched a missile attack on Kherson, damaging two hangars, three private houses and one apartment building, with no casualties reported so far.
Due to equipment failure at one of the energy facilities in several regions of Ukraine, an emergency power outage was caused, and power engineers are working to restore the equipment.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, amid private talks with US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, wrote a letter to EU leaders about Trump's "peace" plan and put forward an idea for cooperation with Russia.
Ukraine's air defense destroyed 2 Shahed attack drones, another 2 Shaheds were lost in the airspace of Belarus, and 8 reconnaissance drones were shot down in the south and east of Ukraine.
he powerful explosion occurred in Kherson shortly after the air alert was announced amid the threat of ballistic missiles from Crimea.
NABU and SAPO exposed prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office on receiving a $170,000 bribe to close a criminal case, and one prosecutor was detained and served with a notice of suspicion.
The IMF team led by Gavin Gray begins meetings in Kyiv to discuss Ukraine's fiscal plans for the second half of 2024 and the medium term.
Emergency power outages were introduced in several regions, including Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipro, Donetsk and Poltava, due to growing power shortages and abnormal heat, on the orders of the national energy company Ukrenergo.
Ohio Senator J. D. Vance, Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee, has opposed U.S. military aid to Ukraine but does not support a Russian invasion, and has previously made derogatory remarks about Trump before becoming one of his staunchest allies.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the detection of a Shahed attack drone in the north of Kyiv region.
russia claims to have shot down 13 drones over several regions of russia and the black sea, and a factory in the Kursk region caught fire after a drone attack.
There were reports of audible explosions in Kharkiv, possibly outside the city, and an air alert was declared in Kharkiv and Donetsk regions as the enemy launched guided bombs.
In the morning, Russian troops shelled the center of Kherson, hitting one of the city's markets and damaging commercial premises, but there were no civilian casualties.
The enemy attacked Kyiv region with drones at night, air defense forces were involved, there were no civilian casualties or damage to critical infrastructure, and drone debris fell in 2 districts, damaging 2 non-residential buildings and causing a small fire.
Two bodies of a 67-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man were found under the rubble of a multi-storey building in Myrnohrad, Donetsk region, after a shelling on July 14.
119 combat engagements took place over the last day, most of them in the Pokrovsk sector.
In the Kharkiv region, Russian troops shelled four districts over the past 24 hours, damaging a farm, residential buildings and wounding two people, as well as causing fires in the forest and open areas.
Russian forces attacked several settlements in the Kherson region, damaging residential areas, a preschool, an administrative building, and injuring six civilians.
Extreme heat of 35-41°C is expected in most of Ukraine on July 16, with thunderstorms and rains in some regions.
The government allocates 1. 65 billion hryvnias to purchase modern equipment - drone control simulators, laser shooting simulators, training ranges and tactical medicine kits - for the updated course "Defense of the Fatherland" in schools across the country to prepare children for the ongoing full-scale invasion.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported a possible air defense operation against an enemy drone in Sumy region.
