On Defenders' Day, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded the title of hero cities to 16 cities. This took place in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, and Khmelnytskyi regions.
In Voznesensk, a 29-year-old brick factory worker died on July 15 after being caught under a press. The police have launched a criminal investigation into the violation of safety rules.