Instructors from the Ukrainian Armed Forces will participate in German army exercises amid preparations by NATO countries for a possible Russian attack, Bundeswehr chief Christian Freuding told Reuters.
Berlin agreed with Kyiv to involve experienced Ukrainian soldiers in training exercises.
Ukrainian Defense Forces struck three oil depots in temporarily occupied territories on March 10 and 11, according to Ukraine's General Staff.
The organizers demanded between $5,000 and $16,000 for their services in avoiding conscription. Such schemes operated in Kyiv and Chernihiv, as well as in the Vinnytsia, Zakarpattia, and Lviv oblasts.
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), together with the National Police, detained the organizers of schemes that helped men forge documents or leave the country to avoid conscription. Now the perpetrators face up to 10 years in prison, according to the SBU press service.
On March 11, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv extended the detention of Nestor Shufrych, a member of parliament from the Opposition Platform — For Life party, which is banned in Ukraine, who is suspected of treason, according to public broadcaster Suspilne.
At noon on Wednesday, a Russian drone struck a minibus in the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson. Currently, there are reports of 20 wounded, including a teenager, according to the regional military administration.
Twenty people aged 17 to 64 were injured in the strike.
The relevant order was signed by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko. The Ministry says that this decision is a tribute to the memory of the Azov soldier and one of the youngest defenders of Mariupol.
The Vinnytsia Lyceum of Security Studies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is now named after Hero of Ukraine Nazar (Hrenka) Hryntsevych. A mural with a portrait of the fallen defender was also unveiled at the lyceum, according to the Interior Ministry and Suspilne Vinnytsia.
A Hungarian delegation led by Gábor Czepek, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, has traveled to Kyiv. It will hold talks on the Druzhba oil pipeline amid accusations that Kyiv is not resuming oil supplies due to a political decision rather than damage, news agency Telex reports.
Law enforcement has completed its investigation into the murder of the former member of parliament and speaker, Andriy Parubiy. The suspect is charged with crimes under five articles of the Criminal Code, according to the Prosecutor General's Office.
But recent events have shown that these manifestations are systematic and "are becoming critical and shameful in relation to both the team and its members."
In particular, the family of Paralympic champion Taras Rad, who came to support him, had their flags and national scarves seized.
The committee tried to avoid "a radical reaction to these manifestations of pressure, hoping that they were accidental and not biased against the Ukrainian team."
The National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine has observed systematic pressure on athletes and coaches from representatives of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Games Organizing Committee, according to its statement.
After the bodies were found, the Ukrainian man turned himself in to the police. Despite this, the judges stated that they could not determine why the defendant resorted to violence.
The circumstances of the case remain unclear, but the investigation established that the young man and the victims were "casual acquaintances" and that the woman and the young man had sexual intercourse before the crime.
The Ukrainian confessed that in June 2025, he punched and kicked his neighbor and her young daughter on a forest path in the town of Dorsten. Both victims suffered severe head injuries. The body of the undressed woman was later found by a passerby. The police found the dead child in nearby bushes.
A court in Germany has found a 16-year-old Ukrainian man guilty of murdering a 32-year-old woman from Ukraine and her one-year-old daughter. The young man beat them to death on a forest path, Spiegel and n-tv report.
Ukraine will receive EU aid through bilateral loans from Baltic and Nordic countries even if Hungary and Slovakia continue to block a €90 billion loan, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing two diplomatic sources.
This was achieved thanks to the Ukrainian military, which has been developing its own weapons production since the beginning of the war.
Zelenskyy spoke about the US request for help in protecting its bases in the Middle East from Iranian attacks. Seeing these requests from the American side now is a good feeling, he said.
Last year, when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy heard during a scandalous meeting at the White House that he "had no cards," he did have them, "but did not show them." Now, "everyone can see them," the president said in an interview with journalist Caolan Robertson.
In particular, this concerns the scarce RAS-2 missiles and the more modern RAS-3 missiles used in Patriot systems.
According to Zelenskyy, Kyiv will raise this issue in negotiations with Middle Eastern countries that have requested drone assistance from Ukraine.
The first countries to which Ukrainian experts have been sent are Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. They will assist with security issues and countering drones.
In exchange for its assistance in the Middle East, Ukraine expects to receive missiles for air defense systems.
Ukraine has sent three professional teams to the Middle East to work in different countries in the region. In exchange for its help, Kyiv is hoping to get missiles for its air defense systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told journalists, according to hromadske's correspondent.
"We have reason to believe that the data on this level of losses is underestimated," Zelenskyy said after the spymaster reported on the Russian documents received.
Ukraine's military intelligence obtained documents detailing Russia's assessment of its battlefield losses.
In closed official reports, Moscow estimates its losses at 1,315,000, of which 62% are killed, and 38% are seriously wounded.
Russia reports 1.315 million casualties in its army, 62% of which are dead, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said following a meeting with the head of Defense Intelligence, Oleh Ivashchenko.
The outlet's sources among Ukrainian politicians add that they proposed equipping the bases with radars and "drone walls."
Ukrainian officials advised the US to establish "drone centers" in Turkiye, Jordan, and other Persian Gulf countries where US military bases are located in order to counter the threat from Iran if necessary.
In August 2025, Ukrainian representatives in the US prepared a presentation showing a map of the Middle East and called on the US to prepare for Iran's continuous improvement of its Shahed technology.
