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Surgery, prosthetics and treatment abroad: what the state guarantees to wounded soldiers
Wounded military personnel can receive completely free medical care. The state covers the costs of surgery, medication, prosthetics, psychological support and rehabilitation. The Ministry of Defence explained who finances the treatment, in which cases referral abroad is possible and whether funds are reimbursed if the military personnel paid for the services themselves.
Trump accused Obama of leaking classified information about aliens and ordered the declassification of UFO files.
US President Donald Trump said that Barack Obama allegedly disclosed classified information when he spoke about the existence of aliens, and instructed federal agencies to begin the process of releasing materials about UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
The European Commission has presented a plan to support EU border regions near Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, but without new funding.
Brussels wants to revive the economies of the eastern territories of the European Union, which have suffered from the war due to a decline in investment, tourism and freight traffic, by involving financial institutions and redistributing existing regional development funds.
Deutsche Bahn suffered a large-scale DDoS attack, with disruptions lasting two days
A cyberattack on Germany's national railway operator disrupted ticket sales and online services, with servers receiving billions of requests per minute.
Anti-government slogans were heard again in Iran during the commemoration of the dead
In several cities across the country, commemorative events for the victims of the protests escalated into new clashes with security forces, while in Tehran, the authorities held an official ceremony and threatened supporters of the protests with prosecution.
Chernihiv received 13 units of municipal equipment from Japan worth 65 million hryvnias
The city has added excavators and loaders to its vehicle fleet as part of an emergency recovery project funded by the Japanese government.
Shmyhal proposed in Paris to create an Energy Task Force to coordinate assistance to Ukraine's energy sector
During the events organised by the International Energy Agency, the Ukrainian side initiated a new architecture for cooperation with partners and invited them to Kyiv on the symbolic date of 26 April.
UNDP to allocate over $230 million for urgent energy equipment for Ukraine
The United Nations Development Programme has allocated an additional $230 million for 2026 to purchase and install critical energy equipment in Ukraine.
Half of Ukrainians who left for Germany at the beginning of the war are already working
Half of the refugees from Ukraine who arrived in Germany in the first six months of the full-scale war were able to find employment within three and a half years of their arrival in Germany. At the same time, the employment rate among Ukrainians remains below the national average due to the war, psychological trauma and the high proportion of mothers who are single parents.
Ukrzaliznytsia delivered two block-modular boiler rooms with a capacity of 1,700 kW to Kyiv
Block-modular boiler rooms and components for them were delivered to Kyiv and the Kyiv region by rail. The equipment was provided as humanitarian aid by the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration to ensure a stable heat supply during peak loads.
A 5,000-year-old bacterium resistant to modern antibiotics has been discovered in a Romanian ice cave.
In the Skerishoara cave in Romania, scientists isolated a strain of bacteria that had been lying under ice for about 5,000 years and proved resistant to 10 modern antibiotics from 8 different classes.
Angolan entrepreneur donated over 80 generators to Ukraine, some of which were received by the Amosov Institute
Angolan citizen Bento Adriano Mendes donated more than 80 electric generators worth tens of thousands of euros to Ukraine. Some of the equipment was received by the M. M. Amosov National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery to ensure uninterrupted operation during power outages.
