The SBU has served a new suspicion notice to Leonid Pasechnik for organizing forced 'mobilization' in the occupied Luhansk region. According to the SBU, Pasichnyk signed an order that led to the forced conscription of 80% of employees of local enterprises.
More than a thousand comprehensive examinations were conducted on the facts of Russia's war crimes.
Students from occupied Bilovodsk were brought to the Novosibirsk region to study in a camp for 'young soldiers'. The children will be taught combat skills and undergo ideological indoctrination.
Residents of the occupied Luhansk region have received bills with excessive charges for electricity and gas. The so-called 'government of the luhansk people's republic' refused to cancel these charges, despite the increase in tariffs on July 1.
In Lysychansk, due to the lack of communication, paper coupons to the Russian pension fund are issued. Consideration of documents can take up to a year, and repeated applications do not speed up the process.
Russians involve Ukrainian children from the occupied Luhansk region in military training at the 'Academy of Friendship of Peoples Akhmat'. Ombudsman Lubinets calls on the international community to respond to violations of children's rights.
The occupied Donetsk region has accumulated 3. 62 million tons of hazardous waste that is not being utilized. Half of the toxic household waste is imported from Russia, and the volume of garbage continues to grow every month.
Monuments to the victims of Stalinist repression and the Holodomor were dismantled in occupied Luhansk by the Russian occupation authorities, following similar actions in other occupied Ukrainian cities.
Today, thanks to the mediation efforts of the United Arab Emirates, another 95 Ukrainian defenders, including military personnel, members of the National Guard and border guards, were released from Russian captivity, bringing the total number of Ukrainians released from Russian captivity since the beginning of the full-scale invasion to 3,405, although the exact number of those still in captivity remains unknown due to Russia's lack of transparency.
Twenty-three Ukrainian soldiers who defended Mariupol were released from Russian captivity, thirteen of them were Azovstal defenders.
Young men from the occupied Luhansk region underwent firearms training and exams with the Russian military as part of the occupiers' "youth army.
The heat wave in Ukraine will continue: from July 15 to 19, temperatures in most regions will reach +33°C to +42°C due to the influx of African air, potentially making July 2024 the warmest July on record, until cooler air arrives around July 20.
In occupied Donetsk, a so-called "court" sentenced former security assistant to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Vadim Golda to 14 years in prison on espionage charges, alleging that he allegedly collected data on "industrial facilities that were later targeted by missile strikes.
Ukrainian guerrillas reconnoitered a military hospital in occupied Sevastopol, receiving information from a wounded Russian soldier that more than 400 wounded would arrive there in a week, with the seriously wounded being sent to civilian hospitals and the rest forced to return to combat missions.
23 men from different regions of Ukraine tried to illegally cross the state border with Moldova by paying an organizer and crossing in a grain truck, but were detained by border guards.
In occupied Luhansk, the Russian occupiers keep animals in a zoo without water and under the scorching sun, subjecting them to cruel conditions.
Three members of a criminal group and a local criminal authority defrauded elderly people of almost UAH 577,000 through a fraudulent scheme called "your relative got into an accident.
Putin said he is ready to outline the nuances of his proposals for a "peaceful settlement" of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine at a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
There is an acute shortage of doctors in the occupied Luhansk region - more than 1,500 medical positions remain vacant, and people in Lutuhyne district have been without water for two days due to repair work.
"The 'Luhansk people's republic' is stepping up propaganda and 'patriotic education' among young people. But teenagers are not enthusiastic about the Russian regime.
Forensic experts have concluded that the damage caused by Russian aggression in Ukraine exceeds UAH 22 billion, which has launched a large-scale effort to prove Russian crimes in international courts.
Near Toretsk, Ukrainian border guards shot down a Russian reconnaissance drone with small arms.
Russian occupants sent 138 children from the occupied Luhansk region to a defense and sports camp in Volgograd for military training.
Russia intends to equate civilian personnel involved in the occupation of the TOT of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions with its armed forces in order to reassure the families of about 300 such persons who died during the fighting.
President Zelensky held a meeting on security issues in the Donetsk region, heard reports on the situation on the front line, the construction of defensive lines, and ordered the distribution of drones and documentation of housing damage in frontline areas.
That 90 Ukrainian servicemen, including those who defended Mariupol, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and various front-line areas, were released from Russian captivity during a prisoner exchange with the assistance of the United Arab Emirates.
In Lutsk, employees of the shopping center were attacked with a gas canister.
An agent of the Atesh movement tracked the base of Russian troops in temporarily occupied Luhansk.
The leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church, including Patriarch Kirill, is tasked with convincing the world religious community that it is Ukraine, not Russia, that violates the principles of religious freedom, despite Russia's bloody crimes against freedom of conscience and destruction of religious monuments in Ukraine.
The number of combat engagements along the entire frontline increased to 88, with the enemy attacking Ukrainian positions 36 times in the Donetsk sector, 25 of which were unsuccessful and 11 were prolonged.