The National Agency on Corruption Prevention created a list of 245 people who might be helping Russia in its war in Ukraine for the State Security Service. Among them are officials of all levels, those who spread Russian propaganda and undermine Ukraine's defense capabilities and state sovereignty.
When war rages on the front line — with trenches, tanks, drones, and rockets — it is visible. But a far more dangerous war is fought where it goes unnoticed: in negotiations, in memoranda, in the emphasis on ethnic grievances and cultural claims.
Estonia said Dmitry Prilepin, the first secretary of the Russian Embassy in Tallinn, had engaged in efforts to erode the country's legal order, sow divisions in society, and aid crimes against the state.
Zelensky and Merz will hold a bilateral meeting before joining a video conference with European leaders, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, and U.S. President Donald Trump, a presidential spokesperson said.
The Polish police detained more than 100 people over the weekend following an Aug. 9 concert of Belarusian rapper Max Korzh at Warsaw's National Stadium.
The financing will help Ukraine better prepare for the autumn and winter months as the country's gas storage reserves fall to their lowest level in at least 11 years due to Russian attacks.
Ukrainian drones targeted the Unecha oil pumping station, part of the Transneft Druzhba pipeline network, sparking a large fire, an intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent.
Ukraine's Air Force said Russian forces launched 49 Shahed-type attack drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles overnight, as well as two Iskander-M or KN-23 ballistic missiles.
"For example, yesterday's figures, which are roughly average: Russian losses per day are about 1,000 – 500 killed and 500 wounded," President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent.
The appeals court rejected the company's arguments that the trial judge erred in awarding costs to multiple groups of plaintiffs' lawyers.
"This is a listening exercise for President (Donald Trump)," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
The number includes 890 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Aug. 12, the Kremlin announced, just days before Putin is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska.
Officials allege that an acting head of one of the Central Territorial Departments in Ukraine's Defense Ministry orchestrated a plot to help a developer secure a tender for a construction project in Kyiv, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) said.
Russian independent media outlet Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBC Russian service, has confirmed the identities of 121,507 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who offered to host future peace talks in Turkey. The call comes just days before the Aug. 15 Trump-Putin summit on ending the war in Ukraine—without Ukraine's participation.
