Police seized over 2 kg of cannabis from a resident of the Vinnytsia region

On 17 July, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs summoned the chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of the Russian Federation. This was in response to cyber-attacks which the French authorities link to the activities of the Russian security services

The Holosiivskyi District Court in Kyiv has found a 35-year-old local woman guilty of setting fire to the entrance hall door of a block of flats. She was sentenced to five years and one month’s imprisonment for the offence

By the end of July, Ukraine’s foreign exchange market is likely to remain relatively stable, and the dollar exchange rate will not exceed 45 hryvnias. At the same time, a full-scale war remains the main factor that could influence the situation

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has temporarily appointed Maksym Tsutsikiridze to act as head of the National Police. The government adopted the relevant decision on 17 July

The electricity supply situation has deteriorated in the temporarily occupied city of Sevastopol. Due to a shortage of capacity, the occupying authorities have abandoned the ‘2 out of 6’ power cut rota

On the night of 18 July, the Ukrainian Defence Forces carried out strikes on a number of military and logistical targets on Russian territory and in the temporarily occupied Crimea. The targets included an oil depot in the Moscow region, ships and support vessels of the Russian navy, and a railway bridge in the Luhansk region.

On 17 July, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs summoned the chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of the Russian Federation. This was in response to cyber-attacks which the French authorities link to the activities of the Russian security services

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has made further aggressive statements regarding Western countries that support Ukraine. In a post on social media, he called on Russia to take military action against those states supplying Kyiv with weapons and other military aid

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has temporarily appointed Maksym Tsutsikiridze to act as head of the National Police. The government adopted the relevant decision on 17 July

The electricity supply situation has deteriorated in the temporarily occupied city of Sevastopol. Due to a shortage of capacity, the occupying authorities have abandoned the ‘2 out of 6’ power cut rota

The Holosiivskyi District Court in Kyiv has found a 35-year-old local woman guilty of setting fire to the entrance hall door of a block of flats. She was sentenced to five years and one month’s imprisonment for the offence

An official investigation has been launched in Hungary into possible links between former Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russia. Prime Minister Péter Magyar confirmed that an investigation was underway, but did not disclose any details of the case.

The Counter-Intelligence Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine has detained an engineer from a local heating network in the Donetsk region who is suspected of collaborating with two Russian intelligence services. According to the investigation, he was passing on the coordinates of targets in Sloviansk for missile, air and drone strikes.

A former Member of Parliament of the 8th convocation, who had been the subject of an international arrest warrant, has been extradited from Germany to Ukraine. He is accused of stock market manipulation and money laundering amounting to nearly 20 million hryvnias, and was taken into custody following his handover to the Ukrainian authorities.

Law enforcement officials have reported the dismantling of an organised group whose members are suspected of selling psychotropic substances via Telegram. According to the investigation, the psychotropic substances were sold in four regions of Ukraine.