The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and National Police investigators have uncovered fraudulent actions by the Director of the Department of Social and Veterans Policy of the Kyiv City State Administration. The official is accused of unlawfully obtaining a second-degree disability status.
By the end of 2024, at least 121 activists, volunteers, human rights defenders, and journalists have lost their lives due to Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine.
Eight capability coalitions, each comprising between six and 21 countries, are actively assisting in addressing specific needs of Ukraine's Defense Forces.
In the northern regions, the number of shelling attacks by the Russian forces along the border increased over the past day. However, there is currently no indication of the formation of an enemy offensive group to advance deeper into the Ukrainian territory.
MPs are preparing a number of legislative initiatives to create a register of damages caused to legal entities, a register of damages caused to owners of movable property, and a new version of the Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring the Rights and Freedoms of Internally Displaced Persons”.
The ongoing war has tragically taken the lives of 143 Ukrainian artists and 94 media workers, according to the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine.
In the Khmelnytsky region, a court returned to state ownership a site with a mound dating back to the X-XI centuries, which is an archaeological monument of local importance.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has held a meeting with government officials on creating economic and social incentives for Ukrainians to work in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar have discussed bilateral cooperation and threats from increased military cooperation between Russia and Iran.
Russian air defenses downed an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25, killing 38 people, four sources with knowledge of the preliminary findings of Azerbaijan's investigation into the disaster told Reuters on Thursday.
Russian troops have attacked an apartment building in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, with a first-person view (FPV) drone, killing two civilians and injuring two others.
Explosive technicians from Ukraine's State Emergency Service have neutralized a Russian Kh-59 cruise missile that fell on a private household in Kharkiv.