Ukraine

A large-scale air alert has been issued across Ukraine as a Russian MiG-31K fighter jet has taken off from Savasleyka airfield, posing a potential missile threat.

Russians have significantly intensified their attacks on Sumy region, launching 83 attacks, including 6 missile and 11 air strikes per day, and evacuating residents of border settlements in the region.

During the period of martial law, Ukrainian border guards, in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, exposed about 410 organized groups that promised illegal assistance in crossing the border in exchange for money.

An audit by the Accounting Chamber found that the war, fires, and illegal logging caused the state to incur losses of almost UAH 23 billion.

During her visit to Ukraine, U. S. Senator Lindsey Graham met with Ukrainian parliamentarians to discuss Ukraine's efforts toward European integration.

Polish farmers block the border with Germany at two checkpoints, allowing only emergency vehicles to pass.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba takes part in a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, stating that Ukraine has completed all the steps required by the European Commission to start negotiations on EU accession and is awaiting a decision on the practical start of negotiations.

33 countries have joined the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, led by Ukraine and Canada, which aims to multiply efforts to return Ukrainian children deported to Russia.

Ukraine faces difficulties in acquiring Soviet-era ammunition directly from Balkan countries due to Russian influence and domestic legislation, so it relies on intermediary countries such as EU members or the United States to purchase such ammunition.

The EU Council has decided to allocate an additional 5 billion euros for military support to Ukraine under the European Peace Fund, the Foreign Ministry reports.

Ukrainian law enforcement officers, in cooperation with Latvian authorities, dismantled an international scheme to extort money from investors in electronic exchanges, arresting three key organizers and seizing evidence.

According to South Korea's defense minister, since last year, North Korea has shipped about 7,000 containers of ammunition and other military equipment to Russia.

The EU is considering approving a €5 billion fund to help Ukraine and using the excess profits from frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine's defense, EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said.

Entrepreneurs used affordable loans to replenish working capital, for which banks allocated UAH 8. 7 billion.

The Ministry of Reintegration's hotline, which consists of 36 operators working around the clock, has processed more than 850,000 calls from Ukrainians since mid-2012 to address crisis issues faced by internally displaced persons, including status and benefits, as well as payments to families of prisoners of war.

Russia has organized pseudo-elections in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, trying to demonstrate legitimacy by engaging foreign observers, but these "elections" are legally null and void and violate Ukrainian and international law, and Ukrainians in the occupied territories live under the threat of violence.

russia has launched a kamikaze drone attack on a military unit in unrecognized Transnistria to destabilize the region.

Five Ukrainian refugees, including children, were diagnosed with measles in a refugee center in Chisinau, Moldova, leading to the closure of the facility for 21 days.

President Zelenskyy held the meeting to discuss reports from the front, ammunition supplies, defense contracts, protection of critical infrastructure, and efforts to build defense borders.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine confirmed significant losses of Russian troops - more than 600 killed and 800 wounded during raids by the Russian Freedom Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Siberian Battalion in the Belgorod and Kursk regions of Russia.

The government plans to reduce the number of vacant positions in government agencies by almost 19,300 to cut costs and prevent overstated salaries due to excessive vacancies.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis approves the training of about 50 Ukrainian pilots on F-16s at a military base in Romania, as well as the transit of weapons for Ukraine through Romania, donated by Finland.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine proposes to create search groups to find people who went missing during the war.

France condemns russia's illegal organization of the presidential elections in the occupied Ukrainian territories and separatist regions, which violates Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Senator Lindsey Graham and U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Robert Needham discussed Ukraine's anti-corruption efforts with representatives of civil society organizations.

Ukraine's armed forces repelled 12 Russian attacks in the south, while Russian forces applied pressure using numerous attack drones and fired at least 14 bombs and missiles in Zaporizhzhia.

With American aid blocked, Western production slowing down, and stockpiles in Ukraine dwindling, the Czech Republic is using Cold War contacts to purchase ammunition for Ukraine from countries allied with Moscow.

The DOT has tightened requirements for the quality of meat, dairy products and sausages to be supplied to the Armed Forces.

The Russian "elections" held in the occupied Ukrainian territories violated Ukraine's sovereignty. They were based on repression and intimidation, Borrell said.

President Zelenskyy congratulated Prabowo Subianto on his election as President of Indonesia, invited Indonesia to participate in the upcoming peace summit, and expressed hope for continued fruitful bilateral relations.