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The state agency PlayCity has revoked the licence of the online casino Cosmolot, which operates through Spacix LLC. During an inspection, the regulator identified breaches of financial transaction rules – the company was using peer-to-peer payments and allowing accounts to be topped up using third-party cards.
Ukraine, in collaboration with Canada and under the Tallinn Mechanism, has completed the first five projects aimed at strengthening digital resilience, with a total value of over 55 million hryvnias. These projects concern the cyber security of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the National Security and Defence Council Secretariat, the Cabinet of Ministers Secretariat, the State Judicial Administration and the State Border Guard Service.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has responded to the offensive remarks made by Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, stating that Italy has no “strings attached”, no “masters” and does not carry out orders from others. In the wake of this scandal, Rome officially summoned the Russian ambassador the day before.
A personalised mRNA vaccine against pancreatic cancer has shown promising results in long-term follow-up. In some patients who responded to treatment, the disease did not return even four to six years after the end of therapy.
Ukrainian singer Vitaliy Kozlovskyi has shared some rare family photos and, for the first time in a long while, shown his sister Olena. The artist explained that she had looked after him since childhood and remains the person closest to him today, whom he calls his “second mum”.
The Malaysian company Karex Bhd, the world’s largest condom manufacturer, plans to raise its prices by 30% if the war in the Middle East continues.
The Supreme Court has declared invalid the results of the tender, the special permit and the sale and purchase agreement relating to the Priazovskoye gas field, which, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General, was being attempted to be sold for a sum tens of times lower than the starting price. This is one of Ukraine’s oldest gas fields, with reserves of over 2.2 billion cubic metres of gas.
Despite the growing demand for Ukrainian content, up to 71% of Ukrainians still consume Russian-language content, with almost a quarter doing so on a daily basis. This was reported by Tetyana Berezhna, Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture of Ukraine, during the presentation of a study on media consumption among Ukrainians.
A fatal accident involving a coach carrying Ukrainian nationals has occurred in Bulgaria near the Malko Tarnovo border crossing. After stopping due to a lack of fuel, the vehicle suddenly began to roll backwards, knocking down passengers who were standing behind it, and subsequently overturned.
Kyivstar is analysing the results of its 5G pilot trial in Ukraine. Since January 2026, nearly 500,000 subscribers have already used the new technology on the operator’s network, with an average of 50,000 daily users.
The Anti-Corruption Action Centre, together with its partners, presented a new project to monitor reforms in the justice sector during the conference ‘Operation “European Integration”: Reforms in the Justice Sector’. The EU-funded initiative aims to strengthen the role of civil society in safeguarding the rule of law, institutional integrity and Ukraine’s progress towards EU membership.
According to Transcarpathian journalist Vitaliy Glagola, the 15-year-old teenager who opened fire at the school in Chop was recruited by Russian intelligence services via online games. A schoolboy in the village of Bushtyno, in the Tyachiv district, who allegedly planned an attack on his classmates, is said to have acted in the same way.
