Ukraine

Representatives of civil society organizations and the media have called on Ukraine Parliament – the Verkhovna Rada to resume live broadcasts of plenary sessions on the “Rada” TV channel. The relevant statement was published on the website of the CHESNO movement, according to Censor.NET. The Ukrainian parliament is also being urged to publish the agenda of these sessions in advance. […]

Timur Mindich, Zelenskyy’s friend and co-owner of Kvartal-95, has decided not to return to Ukraine for now. This was reported by Euromaidan on social media X. “Shortly after midnight on June 20, a well-known media, energy, agriculture, and financial-banking businessman – and simply a good person in his 40s (according to the Presidential Office) – Timur Mindich left the country […]

NABU detectives wiretapped the apartment of “Kvartal 95” co-owner Tymur Mindich. This was reported by Ukraine MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, according to Censor NET. Earlier today Oleksii Goncherenko states that according to his sources, Zelenskyy’s inner circle is now scrambling to identify the “mole” who allegedly gave NABU access to Tymur Mindich’s apartment – a location that has quietly become one […]

On July 22, residents gathered in Kyiv for a protest following the adoption of a draft law that effectively undermines the independence of the anti-corruption agencies NABU and SAPO. This was reported by a Rubryka correspondent on the ground. Several hundred people gathered in the square near the Ivan Franko Theater, demanding a veto of draft law No. 12414, which […]

Friends, let’s gather for the rally to support anti-corruption institutions and stand up for what we have built over the past decade. We’re meeting at 8:00 PM at the square near the Ivan Franko Theater in Kyiv. This is the closest accessible place to the President’s Office, so I hope they will be able to see us from their windows. […]

On Monday, July 21, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Prosecutor General’s Office conducted around 70 searches involving employees of NABU – the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. NABU emphasizes that these investigative actions are being carried out without court warrants, while the SBU and the Prosecutor’s Office suspect one of NABU’s top officials of aiding Russia. NV […]

A serviceman of the guard platoon at the Assembly Point of the Kyiv City Territorial Center of Recruitment and Social Support (TCR and SS) has been taken into custody on suspicion of exceeding his authority while carrying out a duty related to the “delivery of mobilization resources” (as phrased by the court). This was reported by Sudovo-Yurydychna Hazeta (Judicial and […]

On July 19, 2025, at 11:27 p.m. – just 30 minutes before curfew in Kyiv – a deadly hit-and-run incident occurred involving an employee of the Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office, Andrii Molochnyi, who is reportedly the son of pro-Russian comedian Andriy Serhiyovych Molochnyi. The drunk driver of a Toyota was traveling at high speed in the wrong direction on Velyka Vasylkivska […]

The Verkhovna Rada has passed a law allowing up to 10,000 more fighters to serve in the Alpha Center for Special Operations of the Security Service of Ukraine. This was reported by Roman Kostenko, the initiator of the bill, colonel of the SBU, and secretary of the Rada’s Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, in a comment to Ukrainska […]

Former Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has been appointed Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council. The presidential decree, No. 496/2025, was issued on July 18 2025 and published on the official website of the Office of the President. “To appoint Rustem Umerov as Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine,” the decree reads. Rustem Umerov previously […]

What former president Poroshenko says about today’s new PM voting. Zelensky’s face doesn’t look quite as smug as it used to. Poroshenko’s words about criminal prosecution of the Prime Minister and the President no longer provoke the usual goofy grimaces. “In June 2019, during the first week of the President’s term, a criminal case was opened against me based on […]

Ukraine’s Parliament Appoints Denys Shmyhal as Minister of Defence. On July 17, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the appointment of Denys Shmyhal as the country’s new Minister of Defence. The decision was supported by 267 MPs. Earlier, Volodymyr Zelenskyy nominates Denys Shmyhal as Ukraine’s new Defence Minister. Here’s how the factions voted: Unlike most ministers who are nominated by […]