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The High Anti-Corruption Court has extended the period during which Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Antimonopoly Committee, is subject to procedural obligations until 30 August. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) accuse him of illicit enrichment amounting to 72.1 million hryvnias and making false declarations.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated that Berlin has reached an agreement with the US on the purchase of Tomahawk cruise missiles and their deployment on German territory. The parties reached this agreement during the NATO summit in Ankara.
Уряд доручив підготувати рішення про виділення 3,04 млрд грн із резервного фонду для Вишневого Київської області, яке постраждало від російської атаки 6 липня. Кошти мають спрямувати на компенсації за зруйноване й пошкоджене житло, відбудову будинків, ремонт багатоповерхівок та відновлення інженерних мереж.
Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Defence Forces have eliminated a further 1,310 Russian soldiers. The Russian army has also lost one aircraft, dozens of artillery systems, tanks, armoured vehicles and other military equipment.
One of the NATO member states, the name of which has not been disclosed, has funded the purchase of several thousand 155-mm artillery rounds for Ukraine from the German defence conglomerate Rheinmetall.
Following the shelling of Vyshneve in the Kyiv region on 6 July, which caused the most extensive damage to residential areas since the start of the full-scale invasion, the police have launched a criminal investigation.
Between 2014 and 2022, the Dniprovagonmash factory, owned by businessman and adviser to the President’s Office Serhiy Tihipko, supplied railway carriages to a Russian company that provided steel to nuclear weapons manufacturers.
The Ukrainian market for electronics and household appliances remains one of the sectors with a high level of the shadow economy. According to estimates by the parliamentary tax committee, the state budget loses around 20 billion hryvnias each year due to tax evasion schemes.
Over the past 24 hours, the Russian army has lost a further 1,260 troops, as well as dozens of artillery pieces, vehicles and other weaponry. The updated figures were released by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The state programme for insuring against war risks has not yet gained popularity among Ukrainian entrepreneurs. As of early July, businesses had submitted fewer than 300 applications, and this could affect the level of funding allocated to the programme in the 2027 state budget.
The European Union may postpone the adoption of the 21st package of sanctions against Russia until the autumn if member states do not agree on it this week.
A draft resolution has been tabled in the Verkhovna Rada proposing the official adoption of Ukraine’s spiritual anthem, ‘O Great and One God’.
