But as busy as he is rekindling old relationships and creating new ones, Tarnavskyi cannot shake the trauma he and thousands of other Ukrainian soldiers experienced as prisoners of war. The U.N. says many endured beatings, starvation and humiliation at the hands of their captors — experiences that will leave lifelong scars.

Over the past 24 hours, on July 26, Ukrainian forces engaged in 153 combat clashes with Russian invading forces, with the most intense fighting taking place on the Pokrovsk axis, where Ukrainian defenders repelled 63 enemy assaults.

As the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky rolls back a law that would have defanged anti-corruption institutions in Ukraine, Bianna Golodryga speaks to Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Action Centre Daria Kaleniuk about what this means for the state of Ukrainian democracy as the war continues.

Unique footage that appeared online recorded the moment when a Ukrainian tank went into a close maneuver against a Russian tank. The brigade crew took an advantageous position and opened direct fire from close range, Censor.NET informs.

The same data networks that enable phone apps and web surfing help drones navigate, so officials are imposing daily, patchwork shutdowns. The actions can be very disruptive to daily life.

The National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine has long been a battleground in Ukrainian politics, where graft is rife.

Trump and Zelensky recently discussed a "mega deal" where the U.S. would buy drones from Kyiv, said the Ukrainian president.

An ex-Ukrainian anti-organized crime official was found dead in a pool at the same Spain resort where a Russian defector was murdered, Spanish newspaper says.

A dramatic tank-on-tank showdown unfolded just outside the front-line town of Siversk in eastern Ukraine this week, highlighting the evolving nature of the battlefield and the growing confidence of Ukrainian forces in close combat situations.