The enemy is attacking Odessa with drones. Damage has been caused to civilian infrastructure, the regional governor announced.
The enemy is attacking Odessa with drones, the chairman of the Odessa regional military administration Oleg Kiper announced in the Telegram application.
Despite the active activity of our air defense forces, damage has been caused to civilian infrastructure, Oleg Kiper said in his message.
According to his information, an administrative building and cars are on fire, and windows in the surrounding multi-storey residential buildings have been broken. Information about casualties is being specified at a certain time. All relevant services are dealing with the aftermath of the attack.
Russian attacks on two districts of Ukraine's border region of Sumy have injured 14 people, Reuters reported.
The military administration of Sumy region said on Telegram that drone strikes in the city of Putivl, right on the border, had wounded 11 people and damaged civilian infrastructure.
In the southeast, the mayor of the city of Sumy, Artyom Kobzar, said a guided bomb attack had wounded three people and damaged a high-rise apartment building, shattering windows and balconies.
The Sumy region was used by Ukrainian forces as a springboard for their invasion of Russia's Kursk region nearly a year ago. The Kremlin says Russian forces have driven Ukrainian forces out of the Russian region, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow plans to create a buffer zone in the area.
Russia has been increasingly attacking Sumy Oblast. A missile strike on the city of Sumy in April killed 35 people.
Ukraine's Security Service has arrested employees of Ukraine's anti-corruption agency and carried out dozens of searches in a major operation, Reuters reported.
Ukraine's Security Service has arrested one employee of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau on suspicion of being a Russian spy and another on suspicion of having business ties to Russia. Other agency employees have been linked to a banned party run by a Ukrainian who fled abroad. But the anti-corruption agency said the operation against its officials went too far and included allegations of wrongdoing that occurred years ago, such as traffic accidents.
The international organization “Transparency International“ said the searches showed that the authorities were putting a lot of pressure on those fighting corruption in the country.
The G7 ambassadors in Kiev issued a statement saying they shared the commitment to maintaining transparency and the independence of institutions, but added that they had met with anti-corruption officials and had serious concerns and intended to discuss the situation with representatives of the Ukrainian government.
The Anti-Corruption Office said that at least 70 searches had been carried out by various Ukrainian law enforcement and security agencies in relation to 15 employees of the office and that these searches had taken place without court approval. In most cases, the reason for these actions was the involvement of employees in road accidents, the office said in a statement. It added that in several cases there were links to Russia.
While the risk of Russian infiltration remains high, this cannot be a justification for shutting down the entire institution, the anti-corruption agency said in a statement.
Anti-corruption activists have been alarmed since Vitaly Shabunin, a leading anti-corruption activist, was charged earlier this month with fraud and evasion of military service. Shabunin and his allies have described the charges as politically motivated retaliation by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office for exposing corrupt officials. Yesterday, Shabunin condemned the raids on the homes of anti-corruption agency officials. Zelensky's office denies that the charges in Ukraine are politically motivated.
The Security Service of Ukraine said it had arrested a "mole" working for Russian intelligence in the anti-corruption agency who had passed information to her boss at least 60 times. Separately, the service detained a senior detective from the anti-corruption agency on suspicion of acting as an intermediary in his father's sales of industrial hemp to Russia. A third statement from the Security Service of Ukraine said that some high-ranking officials in the anti-corruption agency had ties to lawmaker Fedir Khristenko, who is believed to have fled Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022.
A separate law enforcement agency, the State Bureau of Investigation, said it had served notices of suspicion on three employees of the anti-corruption service for road accidents that resulted in injuries. The anti-corruption service said the road accidents date back between two and four years.
"Transparency International" said the searches without warrants showed the widespread pressure on anti-corruption law enforcement by the Security Service and the Prosecutor General's Office. It called on Zelensky to guarantee the independence of Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies.