Russia is recruiting drug addicts from Chechnya to replenish its assault battalions for the war in Ukraine due to huge losses and lack of choice.
Ukrainian guerrillas have spotted a battery of Grad multiple rocket launchers, containers with ammunition and fuel in the temporarily occupied Crimea, which are likely being transported to a repair base to restore combat readiness.
Russia has put Georgian sniper Giorgi Gelashvili, who is fighting on the side of Ukraine, on the wanted list, accusing him of "inciting enmity and hatred using the media" and mercenarism.
European natural gas prices continued to rise due to the conflict between Iran and Israel.
Russia reported the downing of a balloon over the Kursk region and three drones over the Belgorod region, claiming it was an attempted Ukrainian terrorist attack.
The Russian military command is preparing to redeploy some former members of the Wagner Group from the African Corps to the Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border due to delays in the formation of the corps and the need for additional forces in the war against Ukraine.
The servicemen of the Active Action Unit of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine discovered and neutralized a Russian Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system on the front line on April 14, 2024, when the Russian air defense forces were celebrating their professional holiday.
In 2023, Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company received a record net profit of UAH 719 million, and the total amount of dividends amounted to UAH 215. 6 million.
In the Orikhivskyi sector, the Southern Defense Forces repelled nine enemy attacks, the occupier suffered losses and retreated to their original positions.
Three traitors who voluntarily joined the Russian army after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and fought against Ukrainian troops near Avdiivka and Chasovyi Yar were detained and served with a notice of suspicion of treason and aiding the aggressor state.
The occupiers are looking for nuclear specialists for Zaporizhzhia NPP through social networks and Telegram due to the shortage of personnel and low professional level of employees, which creates additional threats to the operation of the nuclear power plant.
Aluminum prices on the London Metal Exchange soared to a record high after the United States and the United Kingdom imposed new sanctions on Russian aluminum, nickel, and copper supplies.
A Ukrainian kamikaze drone attacked and damaged a communications infrastructure facility in the village of Grafovka, Krasnoyaruzsky district, Belgorod region, Russia, the region's governor reports.
International airlines faced severe flight disruptions due to Iranian missile and drone attacks on Israel, leading to the cancellation and re-routing of flights between Europe and Asia.
At least half of the ballistic missiles fired by Iran at Israel during the massive attack malfunctioned, failed to take off, crashed in flight, or did not reach their targets.
A Russian agent who served for more than a year in a border guard unit in Zakarpattia and passed information to Russian special services will stand trial for high treason and desertion.
A Russian copper company and Chinese firms are trading in new copper coils disguised as scrap metal to avoid taxes and circumvent Western sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
Brigadier General Volodymyr Shvedyuk is appointed as the new Commander of the Operational Command "West" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ukraine's armed forces have found ways to rotate the brigades that have been performing combat missions at the front since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, giving them a chance to rest.
The amount of state funding for universities in Ukraine will depend on the number of students enrolled in state-funded programs, as well as other criteria such as research results, international rankings, graduate employment rates, and the regional coefficient for frontline regions.
China has imposed sanctions on two major American arms companies, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and General Dynamics Land Systems, for selling weapons to Taiwan, citing interference in its internal affairs and violation of the "one China" principle.
In the occupied territories, Russians are forcing Ukrainian children to make amulets for Russian soldiers in seized schools under the guise of a voluntary initiative.
The United Kingdom is considering sending a prototype of the DragonFire laser weapon to Ukraine before its planned deployment in 2027, even if it is not fully finalized, to speed up the process of providing new technologies to help Ukrainian defense.
A drone crashes into a Gazprom administrative building in Belgorod, Russia, injuring two people and damaging the facade.
Rescuers extinguished a fire that broke out in the high-voltage chamber of an electric train locomotive in the village of Sotnyky, Korsun-Shevchenkivska territorial community, Cherkasy region.
In the Dzhankoy district of Crimea, the Russian occupiers are hiding military equipment - tanks and air defense systems - on the territory of a local agricultural enterprise, endangering the civilian population.
In the Kherson region, fishermen hit a Russian mine near the river between the villages of Bobrovyi Kut and Kalynivske, resulting in a man's blast injury and amputation of his lower leg, and a woman's shrapnel wounds.
The Estonian Interior Minister proposes to recognize the Moscow Patriarchate as a terrorist organization in order to ban its activities in Estonia because of its support for Russia's war against Ukraine.
Further escalation of the war waged by Russia against Ukraine poses an existential threat to the Ukrainian people and a direct threat to regional stability and international security, the UN Assistant Secretary-General believes.
Nearly 98,000 people, a third of them children, have been evacuated due to massive flooding in Kazakhstan, which authorities are calling "the biggest disaster in 80 years. "
