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In 2025, the number of illegal activities and fraudulent transactions involving payment cards in Ukraine fell to 256,000, yet the total amount of losses rose by almost a quarter to reach 1.4 billion hryvnias. The National Bank attributes this trend to the fact that the average value of a single fraudulent transaction over the year has increased significantly.
Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga has stated that, according to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia may be preparing to launch up to seven large-scale attacks on Ukraine each month in the near future. He said that, under current conditions, a large-scale strike involves at least 400 drones combined with more than 20 missiles.
Preparations have begun in Kyiv to draw up an economic justification for a possible review of public transport fares. According to Serhiy Pidgainy, Director of the Transport Infrastructure Department at the Kyiv City State Administration, the current cost of a journey already stands at 44 hryvnias, although a final decision on the new price has not yet been taken.
More than 10,000 square metres of property belonging to the state-owned joint-stock holding company “Kyiv Radio Plant” were transferred into private ownership for 2.7 million hryvnias, even though their market value exceeded 62 million hryvnias. According to the investigation, this concerns six properties belonging to the strategic enterprise, and the state suffered losses of over 60 million hryvnias.
The National Resistance Centre has stated that the Russian occupation administration, in collaboration with the Federal Agency for Fisheries, is preparing a large-scale jellyfish harvest in the Sea of Azov. The Ukrainian resistance warns that such intervention could severely damage the marine ecosystem.
The Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung museum in Koblenz, which is part of the Bundeswehr, has restricted access to its collection for citizens of Ukraine and 25 other countries. The museum attributed this to military security requirements and cited the German Security Clearance Act (SÜG).
During a briefing at the Pentagon, US Defence Secretary Pete Hagset compared sections of the American media that are critical of Donald Trump to the Pharisees from the Gospel story about Jesus. His statement came amid the debate surrounding the US and Israel’s war against Iran and has already sparked a new wave of controversy regarding the use of religious rhetoric in American politics.
The European Union may soon allocate a further €2.5 to €2.7 billion to Ukraine under the Ukraine Facility. Marta Kos, the European Commissioner for Enlargement, linked this to decisions taken by the Verkhovna Rada, which last week backed a number of bills necessary for the continuation of reforms and the receipt of funding.
A study has been published in the scientific journal *npj Heritage Science*, in which the author suggests that the Pyramid of Cheops may have been constructed using a hidden spiral ramp inside the structure’s outer shell. The model, based on computer simulations, aims to explain how ancient builders could have lifted the stone blocks without large-scale external ramps and completed the project within a timeframe that historians consider realistic.
On the evening of 16 April, the external power supply to the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was temporarily cut off. This is the second such incident in the past week and the 14th since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
The Netherlands is investing €482 million in Ukraine’s defence industry as part of a new partnership agreement signed on 16 April. This was announced by Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten during a joint press conference with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Middelburg
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko has announced that Eximbank USA is launching a $300 million financing scheme for the purchase of American energy equipment for Naftogaz. According to her, this should help restore gas production facilities destroyed by Russian attacks
