Pavlo Bashynskyi
The Verkhovna Rada passed in the first reading a bill that would allow prisoners to be released from serving their sentences to perform military service.
Parliament passed in the first reading a draft law on liability for evading mobilization, but in the government's initial tough version, which will be finalized for the second reading.
The Verkhovna Rada invited Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, Chief of the General Staff Anatoliy Bargylevych and Commander of the Joint Forces Yuriy Sodol to speak before the consideration of the law on mobilization.
The Verkhovna Rada plans to consider amendments to the draft law on mobilization today, and the vote is likely to take place tomorrow, MP Oleksiy Honcharenko said.
The situation on the border with Belarus is under full control, and there is no significant threat from the remaining Russian units, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports.
There has been no significant increase in the number of illegal border crossings, but attempts to illegally cross the border continue both along the green border and at checkpoints, with the highest number of such attempts recorded at the borders with Romania, Moldova, and Poland.
After an intergovernmental meeting between Ukraine and Poland, the situation at the border crossing points has not changed: three directions remain blocked and three are unblocked, said Andriy Demchenko, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
Polish farmers do not restrict the passage of humanitarian and urgently needed goods for Ukraine coming from or transiting through Poland.
The Russians want to blame the attack in Crocus City on the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Malyuk, and declare him the "main terrorist", making him the No. 1 target because of the SBU's successful strikes on the Crimean bridge, Russian ships, oil refineries, and countering Russian agents in Ukraine.
Polish farmers continue to block truck traffic at three border crossings with Ukraine - Yagodyn, Uhryniv and Rava-Ruska - with about 450 trucks waiting in lines, including 230 at the Yagodyn crossing alone.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has failed to convince former President Donald Trump to allow the US Congress to provide Ukraine with $60 billion in military aid.
Russians shelled 3 communities in the Sumy region - Khotyn, Bilopil and Seredyno-Budsk, 15 explosions from artillery and mortar shelling were recorded.
Russia has staged another provocation by launching a drone strike on the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant to blame Ukraine.
The former Minister of Economy of Kazakhstan, Bishimbayev, may have strangled his wife, according to the testimony of a forensic medical examination in the case of his murder.
Ukraine offered Russia to exchange prisoners of war who profess Islam and are Catholics in a ratio of 1 to 4 with the return of more Russian prisoners, but Russia refused this offer even after the Pope's call for a prisoner exchange.
Ukraine plans to use maximum innovations and set up mass production of equipment so that the process of clearing 26% of its territory of Russian minefields takes years, not decades.
The Cabinet of Ministers has allocated almost UAH 24 million for the overhaul of the Chernihiv Central District Hospital's outpatient clinic to restore the medical infrastructure damaged by the enemy.
The government is focusing on repair work, attracting international assistance, decentralizing generation, and strengthening air defense to ensure energy security and minimize risks to the energy sector amid Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal instructed the relevant ministries to introduce an updated resolution on the reservation of persons liable for military service and to define an exhaustive list of critical infrastructure facilities and enterprises to ensure fair and rational reservation of employees for the functioning of the economy and infrastructure supporting military operations.
The situation in near-Earth space is a disaster due to the large amount of space debris. In some places, this prevents astronomy from studying deep space, and satellites like Elon Musk's devices generally interfere with ground and space telescopes.
russia probably wanted to throw the Serpukhov missile ship into the Black Sea, where communications and automation equipment was destroyed in a fire.
Drone strikes on an aviation plant in the Voronezh region of Russia have damaged the company's main production facilities, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports.
Two unmanned aerial vehicles attacked aircraft factory No. 711 in the Voronezh region of Russia.
No enemy ships have been spotted in the Black Sea, as they are at their base, according to the head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Southern Defense Forces of Ukraine.
A law enforcement officer suspected of killing a 16-year-old teenager at a funicular station in Kyiv will be asked to file a motion for a pre-trial restraint in the form of detention today.
Russians carried out nighttime attacks using "shaheeds" in an attempt to damage infrastructure and civilians, but Ukrainian air defense systems shot down 20 drones in different regions.
Russia is spreading disinformation about Ukraine in the United States through a network of trolls to undermine public support for American aid to Ukraine, according to internal Kremlin documents obtained by European intelligence.
If Congress does not approve the aid, Ukraine will lose the war against Russia, which could lead to Russia's attack on other countries, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned.
Ukraine is working on new defense packages and steps to increase pressure on Russia. According to Zelenskyy, Ukraine needs more opportunities to retaliate against the terrorist state - military, sanctions, economic, legal, and other opportunities.
President Zelenskyy said that maximum attention is now being paid to the energy situation, support for people and businesses in Kharkiv and the region, and efforts to strengthen air defense in the region.