A representative of the Ministry of Defense explained the recruitment process for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in particular, how long it takes to be appointed to a unit after submitting a resume.
The Air Force spokesperson believes that massive missile strikes by russia are not excluded in the coming days, but vigilance must always be maintained.
The Ukrainian parliament passed in the second reading a draft law on fair lobbying, which is necessary to start negotiations on joining the European Union.
A delegation of five U. S. Democratic senators led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer arrives in Ukraine.
The Verkhovna Rada failed to pass in the first reading a bill that would reform the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine by setting new requirements for employees and introducing mandatory polygraph tests.
The Government of Ukraine has allocated UAH 6. 2 billion to Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Kherson regions to help with the recovery.
Amnesty International emphasized that Russia must be held accountable for crimes committed in Ukraine since its military invasion in 2014, including attacks on civilians and infrastructure, disappearances, executions, torture, arbitrary arrests, forced displacement and ill-treatment of prisoners.
The Ministry of Defense is developing the Army+ mobile application for electronic reporting and provision of documents and services for military personnel.
Russian security forces detained Crimean Tatar activist and journalist Lutfiye Zudiyeva during a search of her home, seized her electronics and detained her for several hours on administrative charges.
The Verkhovna Rada passed a draft law on corporate governance reform of state-owned enterprises, fulfilling an important condition for Ukraine's European integration commitments.
The Verkhovna Rada has passed in the first reading a bill that changes the rules for calculating pensions for Ukrainian military personnel, counting months of service in wartime as more than one month of service.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force said that the F-16 fighters will be equipped with bombs and missiles currently used on MiG-29 and Su-27 aircraft, but will be able to use them more effectively than Soviet-era fighters.
A spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force said that while Russia may experiment with drones in the future, they have not yet seen evidence of their use, and the drones they have seen so far fly at a constant speed of over 100 km/h.
About 4,000 amendments have been submitted to the updated draft law on mobilization in Ukraine, which the parliamentary committee plans to start considering next week.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces confirm that they have struck a Russian military training ground in the Kherson region, killing more than 1,000 soldiers.
Only one power line feeding Zaporizhzhia NPP remains operational after enemy shelling damaged another line, increasing the risk of an accident.
The High Anti-Corruption Court has postponed the hearing on the choice of a preventive measure for former MP Serhiy Pashynsky, who is suspected of embezzling oil products, to February 23.
President Zelenskiy will hold a conference on February 25 with Ukraine's military, political, and government leaders to discuss the country's future path in areas such as the military, EU/NATO integration, and security guarantees.
President Zelenskyy met with his Servant of the People faction to discuss the problems at the front, the economy, partner assistance, and the tasks of the parliament and MPs to support these areas until Ukraine's victory.
The EU has adopted a symbolic 13th package of sanctions against Russia on the second anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, including sanctions against those involved in the deportation of Ukrainian children and restrictions on more than 190 individuals and entities.
The case of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Vsevolod Knyazev, detained for bribes totaling $2. 7 million, is about to be brought to court.
Detectives had to recover some evidence in the case of the sale of confiscated oil products that had not been fully transferred to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine when they received the case in 2019.
The head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine said that 2023 was the most productive year for anti-corruption authorities to date.
The director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine emphasized the need for the agency to obtain autonomous powers to tap the phones of offenders during a briefing on the investigation.
This year, the NABU will undergo its first-ever independent audit by independent experts, said Semen Kryvonos, the Bureau's director.
The Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine emphasized the need to create an expert institution under the NABU to obtain evidence more quickly and speed up pre-trial investigations in more than 60 cases of the defense sector.
The NABU director said that they are investigating more than 60 cases of abuse in Ukraine's defense sector related to the procurement of weapons, equipment, food and clothing in 2022-2023, and are working to collect evidence to bring the perpetrators to justice.
In 2023, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office managed to return 1. 5 times more funds to the state budget than in 2022, totaling UAH 4.7 billion.
NABU Director Semen Kryvonos said at a briefing that in 2023 the bureau caught the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court red-handed and brought to justice 3 deputy ministers, 39 heads of state-owned enterprises, 27 judges and 11 MPs.
Turkey's fifth-generation KAAN fighter jet has successfully completed its maiden flight, reaching a speed of 425 km/h at an altitude of 8,000 feet.
