The SBU has announced that it has foiled an attempt by the Russian Federation to register Starlink in the Zhytomyr region

An explosion occurred in the town of Zlatopil in the Kharkiv region on the evening of 22 July — according to the police, three men were drinking alcohol and accidentally set off a grenade. They all died.

Fiit sticks are no longer on sale in Ukraine, and HEETS are gradually being phased out. The manufacturer has not yet announced an exact date for the complete cessation of HEETS sales.

A Su-57 fighter jet crashed during a training flight in the Moscow region. The pilot reportedly managed to eject and no one was injured. Nothing is currently known about the cause of the Russian aircraft’s crash.

Ukraine has agreed not to impose any new unscheduled expenditure on the Pension Fund in excess of the budgetary limit without prior consultation with the International Monetary Fund. This condition may complicate the introduction of new one-off payments, but does not cancel pensions or the annual indexation.

On 23 July, Orthodox Christians honour the Pochaiv Icon of the Mother of God – one of Ukraine’s most famous Christian shrines. They pray before this miraculous icon for protection, healing, family harmony and help in difficult circumstances.

The Central Research Institute of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is developing a closed artificial intelligence system called ‘Marichka’, which will analyse the situation on the battlefield and suggest possible courses of action to commanders. The decision-making process, which currently can take up to 12 hours, is set to be reduced to a few minutes.

Over the course of a week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched drone strikes against around 10 per cent of the total logistics infrastructure of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online marketplace, and put 8 per cent of the company’s warehouses out of action.

The Security Service has uncovered a further six instances in which Russia used depleted uranium munitions during attacks on the Chernihiv region.

Ukrainian developers have already created laser systems capable of shooting down FPV drones and are working on ways to neutralise ‘suicide drones’. Over the next two to three months, the Ukrainian Armed Forces expect to receive new means of countering aerial targets.

54 companies in Ukraine have already joined the private civil defence initiative and have been authorised to carry out the relevant activities.

The owner of a private solar power station has been extradited from Poland to Ukraine; he is suspected of receiving almost 1.3 million hryvnias for electricity that did not, in fact, exist.

The former acting director-general of a state-owned defence industry enterprise is facing new allegations. According to the investigation, he, together with his subordinates, organised a scheme to dismantle the enterprise’s equipment and failed to declare assets worth millions of hryvnias.

Law enforcement officers have detained two people suspected of plotting to blow up a section of railway track in the Chernihiv region. According to the investigation, they were acting on behalf of the Russian security services and planned to derail a freight locomotive.

Law enforcement officers have uncovered an organised criminal group whose members are suspected of stealing commercial refrigeration equipment from a warehouse in Zaporizhzhia. During the searches, a large cache of weapons, ammunition and substantial sums of cash were seized.

Law enforcement officers have notified the director of a private company that he is under suspicion in a case involving the misappropriation of nearly 68 million hryvnias allocated for the refurbishment and construction of protective structures for one of the energy infrastructure facilities in the Mykolaiv region. According to the investigation, the work was never actually carried out.