59% of Germans are not willing to defend the country with weapons in hand

Anna Neplyakh, winner of the ‘Miss Ukraine Universe 2021’ beauty pageant, is no longer keeping her private life under wraps. The model spoke about her relationship with Kyiv-based businessman Oleksandr Gudkov and revealed the surprises they treat each other to.

Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin, who had previously expressed his support for Ukraine and had hoped to come here for a concert, unexpectedly addressed the audience in Russian during a performance in Kazakhstan. The Russians in their propaganda media are delighted with the artist’s gesture.

Singer Anna Trincher unexpectedly revealed that ever since her school days she had dreamt of marrying Vladimir Dantes, and it seems this crush has not faded to this day.

In the Polish city of Legnica, an unidentified woman attacked two 13-year-old girls from Ukraine on the evening of 18 July: the police are already investigating the incident.

Participants in the ‘National Cashback’ scheme will receive two payments in August — for purchases made in May and June. The money will be credited to their cards in separate instalments.

The NBU continues to update regulatory requirements for the financial sector, tightening control over providers of financial and payment services. The latest changes relate to both authorisation procedures and requirements concerning business reputation, ownership structure and business planning for financial institutions. The new rules will also affect pawnbrokers and insurers, which must adapt their internal processes to the updated standards.

Ukraine is approaching another heating season whilst its energy infrastructure comes under constant attack. Whilst the authorities report on gas reserves and the commissioning of new power generation capacity, experts point to disputed figures and problems with connecting new capacity, and in some places power cuts lasting between 10 and 20 days.

Ukraine is actively moving towards legalising the cryptocurrency market, but for the time being, cryptocurrency transactions remain in a ‘grey area’ of regulation. ThePublic spoke to Yakov Voronin, a lawyer and managing partner of the Yakov Voronin Law Firm, Chairman of the Public Oversight Council at the Economic Security Bureau and Chairman of the Committee on Customs and Tax Law at the National Association of Advocates of Ukraine, Yakov Voronin.

In May, headline inflation in Ukraine slowed to 8.2 per cent year-on-year, thanks to an increase in the supply of certain raw food products. At the same time, core inflation accelerated to 7.9 per cent, as businesses continued to factor rising labour, energy and logistics costs into their prices, as well as the impact of the previous depreciation of the hryvnia. According to the National Bank’s estimates, headline inflation continued to slow in June, whilst core inflation continued to rise.

Alexei Dyumin has once again found himself in the spotlight amid reports that discussions about Vladimir Putin’s possible successors are becoming increasingly common in Russian political circles.

The Ukrainian military carried out a strike on the Russian military airfield ‘Khalino’ in the Kursk region, resulting in the destruction of a MiG-29 fighter jet and a ‘Pantsir-S1’ anti-aircraft missile and gun system.

Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the illegitimate President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has stated that Russia considers the possible deployment of NATO military contingents on Ukrainian territory to be unacceptable. According to him, this is precisely how the Kremlin justifies the so-called ‘special military operation’.

Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new missile, the Adapted Capability Effector, for the Patriot systems, which is set to become a cheaper alternative to PAC-3 interceptors. The development was unveiled against a backdrop of growing demand for missile defence systems in the wake of ballistic missile attacks.

Russia has launched the second batch of ‘Rassvet’ satellites, which are seen as a future counterpart to the Starlink system. There are currently around 40 such satellites in orbit, but this is not sufficient for military purposes.

Explosions have been heard in occupied Mariupol. A petrol tanker, a petrol station and a garage were hit as a result of the strikes. Reports that the occupiers’ warehouses have been destroyed are also being verified.