Overview
- Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court placed several Energoatom case suspects in custody with high bail, including Ihor Fursenko (95 million UAH), Dmytro Basov (40 million), Ihor Myronyuk (126 million) and Lesia Ustymenko (25 million).
- The cabinet sent sanctions proposals to the National Security and Defense Council for Tymur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman and submitted to parliament the dismissals of Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko and Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk, with both ministers filing resignation letters.
- Governance measures expanded as the government suspended Energoatom vice president Jakob Hartmut, directed the acting CEO to sideline additional managers, dissolved the supervisory board, and ordered urgent audits of the company and its procurement.
- G7 foreign ministers agreed to intensify economic pressure on Russia and examine ways to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, while the UK announced £13 million for urgent energy repairs and plans to bar British services for ships carrying Russian LNG in 2026.
- The United States said talks continue on defensive weapons and energy equipment for Ukraine as Russian attacks strain the grid, with the General Staff reporting 226 clashes in a day and 81 assaults on the Pokrovsk axis.