The Scorobir Necropolis in the Poltava region, recently added to the State Register, is one of the most extensive Scythian-period burial grounds in Western Europe and may originally have contained up to one thousand mounds.
Recovery work continues in several regions following the massive Russian attack on November 8; in the Poltava region, heat and water supply have already begun to be restored.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Taras Kozlov as head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) directorate in the Kirovohrad region, and Kostiantyn Semeniuk as head of the SBU directorate in the Poltava region.
In Poltava region, a minute of silence was observed to honor the memory of defenders, members of volunteer formations, and civilians who were executed, tortured, or died in captivity.
The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police detained two agents of Russian military intelligence (better known as the GRU) who were preparing to blow up judges and volunteers in Poltava and Dnipro.
A woman gravely wounded in the recent Russian attack on Poltava on July 3 succumbed to her injuries in hospital, which brought the death toll from the attack to three.
In Poltava region, a fire broke out at the premises of one of the enterprises as a result of a combined attack by Russia. The blaze has already been put out.
In the Poltava region, mass events were banned from June 18 to 24 inclusive due to the increased likelihood of air strikes on facilities in the regional center and the Poltava district.
Ukraine's High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) has delivered a guilty verdict against two lawyers and an individual who posed as a legal assistant, all of whom were caught attempting to bribe judges in the Poltava region.
An emergency power outage was recorded in the Poltava district, tentatively due to infrastructure damage caused by the debris of a downed Russian drone.