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In its final report, the Verkhovna Rada’s Temporary Investigative Commission concluded that the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine is showing only partial positive progress. At the same time, the committee highlighted staff shortages, weak internal controls and the risk of the agency losing its institutional capacity.

Ukraine is in talks with its Western partners regarding licences to manufacture anti-ballistic systems and missiles. Officials in Kyiv believe that localising such production could more quickly strengthen Ukraine’s air defence capabilities, given the shortage of Patriot interceptor missiles.

The Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces have stated that, over the course of three days, they struck 19 tankers carrying fuel to occupied Crimea. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also reported that six such vessels had been struck during a night-time operation.

The government is preparing a new pension reform, which is set to change the rules for calculating pension payments in Ukraine. The aim is to link pensions to the contributions an individual has paid throughout their working life, and to divide the system into three parts: a solidarity-based, an occupational and a funded scheme.

Two polls have concluded on the Diia app, in which Ukrainians voted for figures to feature in a new educational project. The winners were the pathophysiologist Oleksandr Bogomolets and the poet and activist in the Ukrainian liberation movement Olena Teliga.

A group of US lawmakers plans to appeal to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to support a bill introducing new sanctions against Russia. The discussion is due to take place during the NATO summit in Ankara.

The former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine believes that the war has entered a phase of attrition, and that its outcome will be determined not by individual successes on the front line, but by the states’ ability to withstand a protracted conflict.

Law enforcement officials have notified the former director of a Ministry of Defence department that he is under suspicion — he is suspected of supplying defective mortars to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Ukraine is moving away from a single-source water supply model towards redundant systems that will be able to operate even during attacks and power cuts. Twenty-nine projects are already being implemented across 14 regions, benefiting over 10 million people.

US President Donald Trump has once again stated that Greenland should be under US control, and has also suggested the possibility of withdrawing American troops from Europe. The comments were made on the eve of the NATO summit in Ankara.

The Ministry of Culture has updated the criteria used to determine which enterprises, institutions and organisations in the cultural sector may be recognised as vital to the national economy. This relates to the procedure for exempting employees subject to military service, but the status itself does not imply automatic exemption.

In June, drones operated by the Ukrainian Defence Forces struck more than 200,000 verified enemy targets and killed nearly 28,000 Russian occupiers.