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An unidentified person opened fire against Aidos Sadykov, a Kazakh opposition activist and journalist based in Ukraine, in Kyiv on June 18, the Ukrainian media and Sadykov's wife said. The attacker approached a car parked in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv with a couple inside, then shot the man and fled, according to Ukraine's National Police. The woman was not injured, the police said. The man was hospitalized in serious condition, the Prosecutor General's Office said. While prosecutors and police did not disclose his name, Ukrainian media outlet NV reported, citing unnamed sources, tha...
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A series of government firings, resignations and reshuffles have strained relations between Kyiv and Western allies and raised concerns about how Ukraine can deal with fixing the country's energy infrastructure as it comes under repeated attacks by Russia, the Financial Times (FT) reported on June 10, citing unnamed Ukrainian and Western officials. The media report comes on the same day that Mustafa Nayyem, the head of Ukraine's Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development, resigned, saying that "systemic obstacles" have limited his ability to do his job. According to media reports, t...
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Oleksandr Pavliuk, Ukraine's Ground Forces commander, said on June 4 that command and staff exercises involving military personnel and heavy equipment will be held in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast. Such trainings take place in Ukraine's capital from time to time in order to increase combat readiness for defense operations. The Ukrainian military said that currently there is no threat of a renewed Russian offensive on Kyiv. The exercises, which will be held from June 5 to 13, will involve a variety of military equipment, including infantry, air defense and anti-sabotage units, Pavliuk said. They are rep...
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During a meeting between Ruslan Kravchenko, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, and Ole Egberg Mikkelsen, the Danish Ambassador to Ukraine, priority projects for the Kyiv region were discussed. The talks focused on enhancing regional security by acquiring more military equipment for anti-aircraft units. Other topics included the need for reconstruction in the region, for housing, schools, and hospitals. "All children should be able to study and attend daycare. And this is impossible without well-equipped shelters,” Kravchenko said. The parties talked about the importance of impr...
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Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, is a city steeped in history, culture, and resilience. Even in the turbulence of wartime, life in Kyiv, to the greatest extent possible, goes on as usual: Shops, restaurants, clubs, bars, museums, parks, and galleries are all still operating. Tourism in Ukraine is largely on hold because of the war, of course, but there are still many foreigners living in Kyiv, or visiting on diplomatic or aid missions to the country. The Ukrainian capital is the best-defended city in the country in terms of attack from the air, and damage from Russian missile or drone strikes is usual...
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Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in Ukraine's capital on May 21 for a previously unannounced visit. Upon her arrival, Baerbockunderscored Ukraine's need for air defenses to help repel Russian aerial attacks. "Russian missile terror, constant air alerts, permanent power outages, hardly any water: the situation in Ukraine has once again escalated dramatically with the massive Russian air strikes on the civilian infrastructure and the brutal Russian offensive in the Kharkiv area," the minister said. "That's why, together with Defense Minister (Boris) Pistorius, I launched a gl...
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An investigation by the Ukrainian investigative media outlet Slidstvo.info released on May 3 revealed that the mother of Anatolii Loif, head of the economic department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), purchased luxury real estate. The investigation alleges that Loif's mother Hanna, who is a schoolteacher, managed to purchase two pieces of luxury real estate worth an estimated collective total of Hr 16 million (~$405,000). Slidstvo.info said Loif reportedly owns no real estate, but his mother, who lives in Berehove in Ukraine's far west, has an apartment in Kyiv's upscale Pechersk neig...
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained two people in Kyiv suspected of creating fake accounts of Ukrainian security services as part of a Russian disinformation campaign, the SBU's press service said on April 30. Russia is notorious for using disinformation and propaganda to undermine its rivals, and these efforts have only escalated since the outbreak of the full-scale war against Ukraine. The two suspects were allegedly spreading false claims about the Russian full-scale war against Ukraine in order to discredit the Ukrainian defense and security forces. The detainees created fake so...
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Ukraine would join NATO only after defeating Russia's full-scale invasion, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 29 during a Q&A session at the National Defense University in Kyiv. Zelensky and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg met students undergoing professional military training in compliance with NATO standards and answered their questions on the Ukrainian-NATO cooperation and strengthening of Ukraine's air defense. The meeting was held on the same day Stoltenberg came to Kyiv with an announced visit. "When we invite a country to join the alliance, we need not just a majority, b...
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Kyiv authorities announced on April 26 an urgent evacuation of two hospitals, including a children's one, saying that they were at a risk of being targeted in an air attack. The two hospitals are located on Bohatyrska Street in the capital's northern Obolon district, according to the statement. The Kyiv City State Administration cited an unspecified video, which it said was circulating on social media, that appeared to "effectively announce an attack on these medical facilities." According to the administration, the video falsely claims that the hospitals host military personnel. The authoriti...
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