National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Russia is conducting a special information operation through Belarus aimed at distracting Ukrainian forces and the West by spreading reports of alleged tensions and the deployment of Belarusian special forces near the Ukrainian border.

The Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine met with the Polish delegation of the Polish National Security Bureau to discuss military cooperation, the situation at the frontline and Ukraine's application for NATO membership.

In the 2023-2024 marketing year, official statistics on grain exports from Ukraine improved due to the current grain corridor and a decrease in gray exports. Total exports increased by 3% y-o-y, including wheat exports up 10% and corn exports down 275,000 tons.

The United States and China have resumed semi-official negotiations on nuclear weapons for the first time in five years, with Washington expressing concern about China's potential use of nuclear weapons in the conflict over Taiwan. However, Beijing has assured that it can win a conventional war without nuclear weapons.

New rules prohibiting the export of agricultural products to the EU, in particular grain, at prices below the officially established minimum, will not take effect until August. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine Mikhail Sokolov.

Putin's Asian Tour is a desperate attempt to find partners who are ready to help continue Russia's war of conquest against Ukraine, according to the NSDC Center for Countering Disinformation.

Romania will transfer its Patriot air defense system to Ukraine in accordance with the decision of the National Defense Council of the country.

The number of hostile attacks has increased in the Borivske direction in Kharkiv region, and the possibility of forced evacuation of children from 5 settlements in the "orange zone" is being considered.

The Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation told about common schemes of gray export of grain.

The company, owned by Vitaliy Gaiduk, a former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council with a controversial past, installs security at several Ukrainian hydroelectric power plants under direct contracts worth more than UAH 90 million.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to visit North Korea on Tuesday and Wednesday for talks with leader Kim Jong-un, with the possibility of signing a "strategic partnership" agreement.

The NSDC Secretary reassured that Russia's defeat on the battlefield in Ukraine would not automatically lead to Moscow's use of nuclear weapons.

Expert tells how gray grain exports affect Ukraine's economy.

Companies controlled by Odesa businessmen Serhiy Groza and Volodymyr Naumenko continue to evade taxes by exporting gray grain from the Olympex terminal, despite ongoing criminal investigations and asset freezes by Ukrainian law enforcement agencies.

NSDC Secretary rejects Putin's latest statements as a sign of his unwillingness to negotiate.

Individuals and legal entities lose everything after sanctions are imposed on them: banks stop servicing them, they cannot dispose of their property.

A court in Kyiv will decide the fate of “gray” grain.

As stated by the MP from the Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy, law enforcement agencies should react sharply to the facts of illegal grain exports from Ukraine.

Ex-regional and former Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Vitaliy Haiduk, the owner of the Ukrainian dairy company, could have paid доларів 10 million to prevent the extradition of ex-deputy Alexander Shepelev, suspected of contract killings and high treason, from Russia to Ukraine.

The deputy believes that the SBU and the National Security Council should study the activities of companies controlled by Sergei Groza and Vladimir Naumenko.

The destruction of roads by heavy transport of agricultural companies negatively affects the logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the expert believes.

Yulia Tymoshenko, a Ukrainian politician and MP, has been put on the Wanted list in Russia by the Russian Ministry of internal affairs under an unspecified article of the Criminal Code.

Due to gray grain exports and tax evasion schemes, billions of hryvnia are not received by the state budget of Ukraine, which seriously affects the economy and the pockets of citizens.

The executive director of the European Business Association reports an increase in the number of cases of blocking tax invoices, which may indicate attempts to put pressure on businesses.

The NSDC should study the activities of companies controlled by Groza and Naumenko for cooperation with sub-sanctioned enterprises, the MP believes.

The paradox of the situation is that for the "Ukrainian dairy company" it is not a problem to repair this road, and many others in the Chernihiv region.

How the state fights against "black" grain exports and what schemes unscrupulous businessmen come up with.

The Defense Council will consider a decision to forcibly evacuate families with children from Aleksandrovka, Timofeyevka and Vidrodzhenovsk of the Zolochiv community of the Kharkiv region due to their proximity to the Russian border and daily enemy shelling.

The former director of the State Corporation "Ukrspetsexport" and the son of the former First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine will be tried on charges of abuse of office regarding the purchase of electronic equipment at an inflated price.

The expert also recalled Mikita's scandalous statement a week before the start of a full-scale Russian invasion. Then, at the celebration of Unity Day, the head of Transcarpathia said that "the population of Russia is our brothers.