A new exchange took place in the aggressor country; The Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft budget for 2025. Athletistic highlights yesterday’s main events.
Ukraine returned 49 citizens from Russian captivity
15 National Guard soldiers, 13 Navy military personnel, 4 border guards, 6 Armed Forces of Ukraine military personnel, 2 TRO military personnel, 7 civilians, 2 National Police returned home from captivity by Russia. In total – 23 privates and sergeants, 19 officers.
In today’s exchange of prisoners of war, 15 Azov fighters were released.
As a result of the 56th exchange of prisoners of war since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 23 women were returned. Among others, Crimean Tatar activist Leniya Umerova, who was captured by the Russians while crossing the Georgian border, was released.
The government approved the draft state budget for 2025
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft state budget for 2025. State budget revenues in 2025 are expected at UAH 2 trillion, expenses at UAH 3.6 trillion. The priorities are the defense and security of the state. Another priority is the financing of protected budget items – 400 billion UAH will be allocated for social protection. The third priority is supporting regions and businesses. This budget change is the implementation of a new model for the management of public investment projects, “which will make capital expenditures more transparent and efficient.”
Ukraine tops the world mortality rankings
Our country has the lowest birth rate in the world. The death rate in Ukraine is 18.6 per 1000 people – it is the highest among all countries in the world. The second deadliest country, Lithuania, has a mortality rate of 15.02 deaths per 1000 people. Serbia ranks third with 14.9 deaths per thousand people. The lowest mortality rate in the world is in the state of Qatar – 1.4 deaths per 1000 people.
The Russians dropped aerial bombs on the Sumy region
Due to Russian strikes with guided aerial bombs in Akhtyrka and Yampol, Sumy region, two women from a boarding home for elderly and disabled people were killed. In the village of Yampol, Shostkinsky district, Sumy region, as a result of which a 60-year-old man died.
Energy workers have announced an unprecedented threat to Ukrainian nuclear power plants
In the past few weeks, energy officials have seen more than 70 Russian drones and more than 30 cruise missiles flying near Ukrainian nuclear power plants. Energoatom emphasized that such Russian actions “constitute an unprecedented threat not only to Ukraine, but also to the entire continent.”
Finland will provide Ukraine with the 25th military aid package
The cost of the new batch of weapons is estimated at 118 million euros. The assistance takes into account both the needs of Ukraine and the resource situation of the Defense Forces. The total amount of military aid to Ukraine provided by Finland since the beginning of the war amounted to 2.3 billion euros.
Zelensky announced the results of the Kursk operation
Thanks to the operation of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region, the Russian Federation was able to stop the enemy in the direction of Kharkov, as well as slow down the advance of the Russians in the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian leader indicated. According to him, the Russians are preparing to create buffer zones from the east to the north of Ukraine. The enemy planned to occupy the regional centers of these regions.
The General Staff named the direction in which the enemy concentrated his forces
The Russian invaders have carried out the most attacks in the past 24 hours in the direction of Kurakhovsky. There, the invaders carried out 21 attacks near Ukrainskaya, Zhelaemogo First, Georgievka, Konstantinovka and Ekaterinivka. There are now four battles taking place in the Konstantinovka and Zhelanny Pervoy areas.
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