In the event of a cold winter and renewed large-scale Russian attacks on nuclear power plants, Ukraine may experience power outages of up to 20 hours a day. Experts describe the situation as critical and express hope that international partners will provide assistance to Ukraine as soon as possible. This was reported by Politico, citing Ukrainian energy experts.
The Central Election Commission of Moldova has completed the counting of votes cast in the second round of the presidential elections. The incumbent president Maia Sandu emerged victorious, receiving 55.33% of the votes.
Her opponent, former Prosecutor General Alexander Stoianoglo, garnered 44.67% of the votes.
In the early days of the full-scale invasion, Russia proposed an agreement to Ukraine that would effectively mean Ukrainian surrender.
According to journalists, if the Ukrainian authorities had accepted these terms, it would have turned Ukraine into a puppet entity with a fictitious neutral status, a tiny toothless army, no protection from NATO states, and no chance of regaining control over Crimea and Donbas. Ukraine would have had to recognize the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in their entirety, as well as large territories that were still under Kyiv's control at that time.
Journalist and former captive Vladimir Fomichev called on President Volodymyr Zelensky and other top political and military leaders of Ukraine to grant civilians who have endured Russian captivity the right to an exemption from mobilization.
A corresponding bill No. 12133 has already been registered in the Verkhovna Rada.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated that the European Union would be compelled to reassess its aid to Ukraine if Donald Trump wins the presidential elections in the United States.
The head of the Hungarian government remarked that the EU "will not be able to bear the burden of war alone," so if "the Americans switch to peace," Europe will also have to adapt.
63% of Ukrainians are still willing to endure the war for as long as necessary. This is 10% less than in 2022 and 2023.
At the same time, 6% of respondents indicated they are ready to endure the war for another year, 4% stated they could bear the burden of combat for another six months, 15% for a few months, while the remaining 12% found it difficult to answer this question. These are the findings of a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).
The Kyiv Appeal court upheld the sentence for two former law enforcement officers who raped a woman at the Kagarlyk police station in 2020.
In May 2023, the Obukhiv District Court of Kyiv sentenced the defendants to 11 years in prison each. The National Police was also ordered to pay moral compensation of 1.2 million hryvnias to the victim, Nela Pogrebitskaya.
Lviv will be the first city to conduct testing of the 5G network. If the equipment does not interfere with military operations, such a project will also be implemented in Kyiv and Odesa.
At the same time, the Ministry of Digital Transformation emphasizes that this does not yet indicate a full-scale network launch. It is likely that the new technology will initially operate at a few base stations rather than covering the entire city.