In Ukraine, most male citizens between the ages of 18 and 60 who are deemed fit to serve by a military medical commission (MMC), are subject to mobilization during martial law. While the MMCs are the ultimate authority on whether potential conscripts are fit for military service, their rulings can be appealed under two procedures. […]
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, has urged Ukrainians to take up free training and assemble first-person view (FPV) drones at home. Source: Fedorov on Facebook Quote: “Ukrainians are always creating remarkable initiatives to help the Defence Forces. I would like to tell you about one of them, the People’s […]
Moscow is forcing Ukrainians in Russia-occupied territories to register with the so-called “military commissariats” when applying for Russian passports under pressure, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center (NRC) reported on Jan. 11. Ukrainians are being pressured to sign a contract with the Russian military, become “volunteers,” and fight against their own country. Read also: Kremlin sends FSB […]
The security services of Israel and Egypt have not granted permission to evacuate 29 Ukrainians from the besieged Gaza Strip due to their alleged cooperation with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korniichuk told Hromadske on Jan. 11. Since the hostilities between Israeli forces and Hamas started in early October, Ukraine […]
Japan plans to hand over seven high-voltage transformers and five gas turbines to Ukraine, said Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa in a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Herman Halushchenko, Ukraine’s Energy Ministry announced on Jan. 7. The equipment will ensure uninterrupted energy supply for more than six million Ukrainians in areas affected by targeted Russian […]
Russia had relied on air support to attack Ukrainian advances in a southern sector of the front. But Kyiv recently shot down several fighter jets, putting that strategy in jeopardy. It all comes back to key failures Russia made at the start of the war, Western intelligence says. Russia has been unable to effectively drive […]
More than 304,000 new individual entrepreneurs and 37,000 new companies were registered in Ukraine in 2023, according to an article published by the Opendatabot platform on Jan. 8. This is 7% more than in 2021. The number of new businesses also exceeded the figures for 2021 by 7%. Read also: Digital Transformation Ministry unveils $3,000 […]
The first 11 months of 2023 saw over 32 million border crossings in Ukraine, with only a 1% difference between the number of departures and returns, the open data platform OpenDataBot reported on Jan. 3, citing data from the Ukrainian Border Guard. Read also: More than 840 companies forced to move to safer Ukrainian regions […]
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that the West has lost its sense of urgency regarding the war in Ukraine, and that many Ukrainians have lost their sense of an existential threat. Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with The Economist Details: According to The Economist, Zelenskyy is exasperated by the hesitations of some of his allies, as […]
The Russians, with the assistance of the military, have organised a collection of signatures from the population of temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories supporting the “candidacy” of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation. Source: National Resistance Center (NRC) Details: Reportedly, the so-called “volunteers”, accompanied by Russian military personnel, are […]
Two Ukrainians are among the victims of a large-scale traffic accident near Istanbul. Fortunately, there is no threat to their lives. Source: Oleh Nikolenko, speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, as quoted by European Pravda Quote: “Two Ukrainian women were injured as a result of an accident in the Turkish province of […]
Russian police have conducted a series of raids on villages in occupied Kherson Oblast for “preventive talks” with residents who have refused a Russian passport, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center reported on Dec. 28. Ongoing forced passportization in the oblast has led to restrictions on the rights of those who refuse a Russian passport. Read also: […]