UK to allocate £25M for Ukraine’s social recovery
The United Kingdom will allocate £25 million to launch the SPIRIT programme to support an inclusive and sustainable social recovery in Ukraine.
08 February 2025
The United Kingdom will allocate £25 million to launch the SPIRIT programme to support an inclusive and sustainable social recovery in Ukraine.
Police officers from the "White Angel" special unit evacuated a 12-year-old girl, her mother and grandmother from the Krasnopillia community of the Sumy region, which suffers from constant shelling by Russian forces.
In temporarily occupied Mariupol, schoolchildren are being forced to write “letters of gratitude” to Russian soldiers.
Head of the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Andrii Kovalenko reminded citizens that sharing videos from Russian attack sites is a criminal offense.
EU Commissioner for Youth, Culture, Sport, and Gender Equality Glenn Micallef stated that the European Union must allocate more funds to culture, as it is vital for security.
Ukraine plans to introduce artificial intelligence into all key areas of governance and become one of the three countries leading in the integration of AI-based solutions by 2030.
07 February 2025
Two weeks before the federal election in Germany, the spread of fake news and misinformation, often masterminded by Russia, has intensified, including through the so-called “alternative” media.
On Thursday, Czech President Petr Pavel signed amendments to the law on expanding the protection of refugees from Ukraine from Russian military aggression.
Ambassador of Ukraine Olha Dibrova opened the fifth Ukrainian bookshelf in Finland - this time Ukrainian books appeared in the Lahti Library.
A wave of sabotage incidents, likely backed by Moscow, swept across Germany on the eve of the elections as perpetrators vandalized hundreds of cars in an attempt to compromise the Greens.
06 February 2025
Ukraine's Culture and Strategic Communications Minister, Mykola Tochytskyi, has announced the introduction of personal sanctions against 55 Russian citizens and three museums registered under Russian law that operate in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories.
Eight more illegally deported Ukrainian children have been successfully returned from temporarily occupied Crimea.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has instructed Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko and Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction and Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksii Kuleba to develop a clear program to support IDPs.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky offered the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to help with veterans' support programs after the suspension of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The issue of obligatory mobilization of Ukrainian women liable for military service is not on the agenda. Female Ukrainians may join the Army only consensually.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine with the "Golden Star" Order to Yaroslav Kozub, Maksym Ocheretnyi (posthumously), and Yevhenii Lemeshenko (posthumously).
In Ternopil, a house damaged by an enemy drone will be repaired, for which UAH 960,000 have been allocated from the city budget.
05 February 2025
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that concrete steps need to be taken to make healthcare more affordable for the people of Ukraine.
In 2024, approximately 600 people were criminally prosecuted in Poland for assisting illegal migrants, nearly half of them are Ukrainian citizens.
The OSINT for Ukraine Foundation has submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) implicating five Russian officials in the forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice expects that in 2025, the International Register of Damage caused by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine will begin accepting claims in all approved categories.
A total of 4,131 people have already been returned from Russian captivity, including 150 service members of the Armed Forces, State Border Guard Service, National Guard, and police during the latest swap effort.
Thanks to the law adopted at the end of last year, which provides for an additional UAH 15 billion to compensate IDPs for housing damaged or destroyed as a result of hostile aggression, 10,000 IDP families will be able to get a new home.
Russian special services - GRU and FSB - recruit teenagers and young people to commit crimes against the military in Ukraine, use them and “abandon” them.
Greece has confirmed its readiness to participate in projects aimed at restoring Ukraine's cultural heritage, according to the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine.
04 February 2025
In Ukraine, there are currently five camps for prisoners of war that are held in accordance with the Geneva Convention and humanitarian law.
The imposition of fines on military conscripts who did not complete the Military Medical Commission (MMC) examination by February 5, 2025, is formally possible if Parliament fails to extend the deadlines in time. However, there is currently a political consensus that fines will not be applied.
Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications Mykola Tochytskyi of Ukraine and his Spanish counterpart, Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun Domenech, discussed the issue of organizing Ukrainian exhibitions in Spanish museums and implementing training programs for Ukrainian art restoration experts.
Fifty-nine percent of war-displaced Ukrainians who moved to the Netherlands are officially employed in their host country.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law enabling the spouses of Ukrainian citizens who are or were involved in defending Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty to obtain Ukrainian citizenship.