Oleksandr Zyma, director of the NBU's legal department, against whom criminal proceedings have been initiated, received over one million hryvnias in salary for July. Zyma's total income last year amounted to over 8.5 million hryvnias.
On July 30, Kyiv was hit by a heavy downpour, which restricted traffic on a number of streets. The Promenada shopping center was flooded.
In Lithuania, the military has been searching for a drone that may have flown in from Belarus for the third day. The search is focused north of Kaunas, a helicopter has been involved, and over 100 people have been interviewed.
Zhytniy Market in Podil has been added to the List of Newly Discovered Cultural Heritage Sites of Kyiv. This allows only restoration work to be carried out on the site, protecting it from demolition.
The man was sentenced to three years in prison. He broke the nose of a TCC employee during a document check.
A 14-year-old boy died in an ambulance after a gunshot wound to the head. The pistol from which the shot was fired belongs to the deceased's brother.
On July 31, predominantly dry weather is expected in Ukraine, with the exception of thunderstorms in Chernihiv region, Sumy region, and Poltava region. Air temperature will decrease, ranging from +20°C in the north to +32°C in the south.
On the "Zoloty Bereh" beach in Odesa, three teenagers on a mattress were carried out to sea; they were rescued. A similar incident occurred on the "Vidrada" beach with three men, who were also rescued.
In the first half of 2025, Kyiv, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and Kharkiv regions became leaders in new car sales. RENAULT Duster was the bestseller among new cars, while Volkswagen Golf, Tesla Model Y, and Audi Q5 led among used cars.
In May, Ukrainian banks issued 599 mortgage loans totaling UAH 1. 1 billion. Most loans were granted in the primary real estate market, and Kyiv Oblast and Kyiv became leaders in terms of volume.
The former head of the capital's military enlistment office received a suspicion for helping the former head of the Kyiv Metro, Viktor Brahinsky, leave the country. He organized the forgery of documents that allowed Brahinsky to become unfit for military service.
Ukraine's leading allies in Europe plan to approach the EU for tens of billions of euros in loans for joint procurement of weapons for Ukraine and to strengthen their own defense. The SAFE program envisages loans for weapons, financed by EU debt with a 45-year repayment period.
The "Lybidska" metro station in Kyiv was closed due to a suspicious object, which turned out to be a portable bicycle pump. Train movement has been restored, and the metro is operating as usual.
In the Bucha district of Kyiv region, a conflict occurred between a 60-year-old man and a woman, during which the man hit the victim's phone with his hand. The police are investigating the incident, which took place on July 28 in a store in the village of Sofiivska Borshchahivka.
The "Lybidska" metro station in Kyiv has resumed normal operation after checking a foreign object that posed no threat. Earlier, the station's operation was temporarily suspended due to the discovery of a suspicious object.
In Kyiv, a former deputy head of the Obolonsky district department of the executive service and her husband were notified of suspicion. They are involved in the illegal lifting of the arrest from the property of a debtor who owed almost 600,000 hryvnias.
Lybidska metro station in Kyiv has been temporarily closed to passengers due to the discovery of a suspicious object. Trains are passing the station without stopping, and an explosive ordnance disposal team has been called to the scene.
In Kyiv, the head of a communal medical institution and two heads of departments were detained for organizing a scheme of fictitious registration of disability to avoid mobilization. The documented amount of bribes is 11 thousand US dollars and 4196 UAH.
Ukrzaliznytsia strengthened document control during boarding, checking over 300 trains and 41,600 documents since July 25. This led to 38 passengers without tickets and several individuals without documents being denied boarding.
The real estate market in Ukraine is gradually recovering after the shock of the first years of the war, demonstrating stable price growth. The primary market is outpacing the secondary in terms of growth rate, and Ukrainians are considering real estate as a tool for capital preservation.
Since the beginning of 2025, 18 teenagers have died due to violations of railway safety rules, which was a consequence of a dangerous pastime – train surfing. Ukrzaliznytsia, together with the State Emergency Service, the Red Cross, and the Juvenile Police, conducted training for children to prevent similar tragedies.
In the first quarter of 2025, the number of terminated IT individual entrepreneurs reached 16. 7 thousand, which is three times more than last year, due to the restoration of access to the Unified State Register after a cyberattack. However, in the first half of 2025, 18.5 thousand new IT entrepreneurs were registered, which is only 4.8% less than in the same period of 2024.
Ukraine is going through the most difficult stage of the full-scale war, as Russian troops are approaching Kupyansk, Kostiantynivka, and Pokrovsk. The loss of these cities will force the Armed Forces of Ukraine to move the defense line to Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
In Kyiv, 1021 units of firearms and 255,000 rounds of ammunition have been declared since the campaign began on November 25, 2024. 983 residents of the capital applied to the police to declare weapons.
The SBU and the Prosecutor General's Office prevented an FSB assassination attempt on Serhiy Filimonov, commander of the 108th separate battalion "Wolves of Da Vinci". The Russian special service recruited a resident of Dnipropetrovsk region, blackmailing him with a fabricated case of treason, and forced him to monitor the military and prepare for his elimination.
The SBU and National Police are conducting planned security measures in Kyiv's Desnyanskyi district. The goal is to check the anti-terrorist protection of places of mass gathering.
Kyiv "Dynamo" will play the return match of the 2nd qualifying round of the Champions League against Maltese "Hamrun Spartans" on July 29 at 21:00 at the "Lublin Arena" stadium in Poland. In the first match, "Dynamo" won confidently with a score of 3:0.
In Kyiv Oblast, the director of a private company embezzled UAH 470,000 intended for the construction of modular homes in the village of Moshchun. He inflated the cost of works and entered false data into the acts, then transferred part of the funds to his own account.
Kyiv law enforcement officers held the parents of three teenagers aged 14-15 accountable, who, for fun, climbed a construction crane in the Podilskyi district of Kyiv. Administrative materials were drawn up against the parents for improper performance of parental duties.
In Rivne, on July 27, a 20-year-old local resident driving a BMW hit a 44-year-old woman at an unregulated pedestrian crossing. The pedestrian died at the scene from her injuries; the driver has been detained and notified of suspicion.
