A suspect in the murder of a police officer has been arrested in Sloviansk

A further 185 servicemen and one civilian have returned to Ukraine from Russian captivity.

US President Donald Trump has stated that he does not rule out a face-to-face meeting with Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. According to him, this would be possible if an agreement were reached to end the war.

The Ukrainian Navy has stated that one of its unmanned surface vessels lost control whilst on a mission in the Black Sea due to Russian electronic warfare measures and ended up off the coast of Romania.

Russian combat aircraft continue to drop guided bombs over their own territory and the occupied regions of Ukraine. British intelligence believes this is due to errors made during aircraft preparation and the execution of flight missions.

In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, operators from the ‘Strix’ unmanned systems unit of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine shot down a Russian ‘Skat 450M’ reconnaissance drone. This is the second aircraft of this type that the unit has destroyed.

The National Police are conducting a large-scale investigation into possible illicit enrichment and false declarations by officials of military medical commissions and expert teams responsible for assessing an individual’s ability to perform daily activities. Law enforcement officers have carried out 58 searches across 16 regions of Ukraine.

Officials from the State Bureau of Investigations have served notices of suspicion on three officials at one of the district recruitment and social support centres in Zakarpattia Oblast. The investigation alleges that they unlawfully detained conscripts and subjected them to ill-treatment.

In Lviv, law enforcement officers have arrested a former member of a village council in the Zhovkivsky district and his son. According to the investigation, they offered conscripts the option of obtaining a false disability certificate or leaving Ukraine illegally.

Law enforcement officers have dismantled eight new schemes designed to evade conscription and have arrested 22 organisers of these schemes. According to the investigation, the suspects offered conscripts forged documents or illegal passage across the border.

Law enforcement officers have exposed officials from a military unit and representatives of contracting companies who are suspected of embezzling public funds during the procurement of generators for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to the investigation, the losses to the state amounted to over 11 million hryvnias.