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Ukrainians who voted using the Diia application. On August 1, the Director of the Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II, Yuriy Savchuk, posted a video on Facebook showing a crew removing the symbol from the shield held high in the monument's left hand. "This is the moment thatmns of Ukrainians, generations of Ukrainians, have dreamed about," Savchuk said. The Motherland Monument is located at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. It was built in 1981 and is the second-tallest sculpture in Europe.
SBU uncovers extortion scheme at Odesa military barracks. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported on Aug. 1 that it had caught a corrupt official, who demanded bribes from contractors for the repair of military barracks in Odesa Oblast.
Transparency International: 'Suspicious' companies winning contracts to reconstruct Irpin. The financing of the reconstruction of Irpin is "opaque", according to the DOZORRO project team of Transparency International Ukraine. In April 2022, the total costs of reconstruction was estimated at $1bn dollars.
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast military enlistment head suspected of illicit enrichment. Law enforcement officers searched the office and properties of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast military enlistment head,
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The Russians attacked the Danube port of Reni on Monday night. The port of Reni was damaged as a result of another Russian attack on Odesa's infrastructure during the night of July 24, said Reni regional official Ihor Plekhov. According to him, about 15 Shaheed strike drones were detected in the port area, and residents of Reni and surrounding villages heard a series of explosions. As a result of the Russian attack, three grain warehouses were destroyed. The blast wave damaged the windows of buildings and structures at the enterprise. The Southern Air Command also reported that the enemy attack on the night of July 24 was aimed at the port infrastructure on the Danube. Romanian mass media reported that an explosion occurred in the port of Reni due to shelling in the Odesa region, located on the Danube's left bank, 200 meters from the border with Romania.
Zelensky hopes for victory within year. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 12 he hopes Ukraine will achieve victory in the full-scale war against Russia before the NATO summit in Washington in 2024.
Foreign objects “resembling explosive devices” have been placed on the outer roof of the third and fourth reactor buildings of the occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a Facebook post on July 4. Nothing happened. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) personnel have not observed any Russian military deployment inside the occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told France 24 from the agency’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on June 30.
Return of Azovstal defenders now "a positive" in relations with Russia. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a press conference that the decision to return the Azovstal defenders to Ukraine did not harm Turkey's
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