The Strategic Investment Council has started working in Ukraine and approved a portfolio of 787 projects. For 2025, 92 projects have been selected in the areas of social protection, infrastructure, and demining.
The Verkhovna Rada has passed a law extending the moratorium on VostGOK's bankruptcy for a year. The document prohibits the seizure of the company's property and provides for the lifting of the seizures that have already been imposed until 2026.
The Verkhovna Rada has passed a bill banning the seizure of property of the Southern Machine-Building Plant for the period of martial law. The document also provides for the lifting of the seizures already imposed on the company.
Environmental prosecutors have launched an investigation into the legality of an investment deal to build on the land of Hryshko Botanical Garden in Kyiv. The inspection was initiated due to public outcry and the threat of losing valuable land with unique plant species.
The Verkhovna Rada has adopted as a basis a draft law on renaming more than 100 courts in different regions of Ukraine. The changes affect courts in Crimea, Sevastopol and 16 regions of the country, but do not provide for their reorganization.
The government has determined a list of civil service positions of categories B and C for which English language proficiency is required. The new requirements will come into force 4 years after the end of martial law.
The government has established a procedure for registering convicts for military service and undergoing a military qualification examination. The procedure for escorting parolees to MCCs and military units has been determined.
The President submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada on liability for violating sanctions. The document was submitted to the parliamentary leadership for consideration, but the text of the bill has not yet been made public.
The Verkhovna Rada did not support the provision on free movement of journalists during the curfew. Instead, the parliament passed a law on the openness of parliamentary committee meetings to the media and the public.
Ukrainian drones struck four important Russian facilities. Among the targets hit were chemical plants, ammunition depots at the Engels airfield, and an oil refinery.
The SBU and NABU uncovered a scheme to embezzle UAH 58. 44 million from Ukrenergo through fictitious companies. The former deputy head of the Kharkiv regional council and his accomplices organized a scheme to sell stolen electricity.
The US President announced the strengthening of American positions by strengthening alliances and putting pressure on adversaries. Biden emphasized the growth of US influence in the diplomatic, military, and economic dimensions.
Joe Biden said that putin planned to seize Kyiv in three days, but the US president visited the Ukrainian capital instead. Biden emphasized the successes in supporting Ukraine and preventing a conflict between the nuclear powers.
Minister Sibiga says Russia is illegally trading in stolen Ukrainian grain and warns of sanctions against those involved. Ukraine has sent notes of protest and is preparing an appeal to the International Maritime Organization.
In Chuhuiv, a girl aged 1 year and 7 months was injured in a drone attack and diagnosed with an acute stress reaction. A car and the windows of a five-story building were damaged.
An air alert has been declared in occupied Crimea and traffic across the Kerch Bridge is blocked. Russian air defense forces are operating in the Bryansk region and claim to have destroyed a drone.
In Rozlyv, a Russian drone attacked a civilian car, injuring two people. A 61-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man sustained mine-blast injuries and contusions.
Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has announced the launch of a poll in the Army+ app to elect a new head of the National Air Force. Servicemen will be able to support one of the five candidates until January 17.
The occupants are conducting systematic attacks south of Pokrovsk to encircle the city. According to the spokesperson for the Khortytsia unit, the situation is dynamic, the front lines are constantly changing.
Ukraine's President invited Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to Kyiv on Friday. The meeting is scheduled to discuss the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine.
More than a thousand servicemen have applied to return from the Joint Forces Operation through the Army+ mobile application, of which 600 have already been approved. The voluntary return period has been extended until March 2025.
The scandalous videos of Kyiv teenagers allegedly blocking traffic and being escorted by police turned out to be staged. During the searches, weapons were seized from the participants, and one of them had previously been prosecuted for singing the Russian national anthem.
Russian troops are trying to gain a foothold in the villages around Pokrovsk to partially cover the city. The enemy is trying to reach the forest belt near the supply route, having significant human and technical resources.
Ukrainian troops attacked the command post of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army in Novohrodivka. The attack disrupted the logistics and command of Russian troops in the region.
Russian shelling in the Kursk region killed 36 people, wounded over 100, and destroyed the town of Sudzha by 80%.
The former British prime minister called Putin a dirty word because of his imperial ambitions for Ukraine and the Baltic states. Johnson said that Russia is no longer an empire, and this needs to be realized.
Drones attacked the Taneko refinery in Nizhnekamsk, which provides fuel for the Russian army. The refinery has a processing capacity of over 16 million tons of oil per year and suffered damage to the primary processing unit.
The head of KCMA, Timur Tkachenko, will appeal to the management of the Hryshko Botanical Garden and the National Academy of Sciences to terminate the investment agreement on the development of the territory. The agreement of 2018 provides for the development of a plot on Sadovo-Botanichna Street.
At least 11 people have been killed in the Los Angeles County wildfires. The exact number of victims is unknown due to dangerous conditions for the investigation.
Ukrainian military captures two North Korean soldiers in Kursk region of Russia The prisoners received medical care and were taken to Kyiv to cooperate with SBU investigators.
