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The RazomUA editorial team presents the documentary series "Learning to Live On" — live testimonies from the families of fallen defenders who preserve their memory and continue to move forward. These are not just interviews. This is a national archive that cannot be rewritten.
# Titanium Hinge for a Million Bends, IP58, Nanocrystalline Glass Outside — and an Inner Display That Can't Withstand a Fingernail. JerryRigEverything Test on Oppo Find N6 Reveals a Design Compromise Common to the Entire Class of Foldable Flagships A durability test of the Oppo Find N6 by popular tech reviewer JerryRigEverything has exposed a fundamental design flaw shared across foldable flagship devices. While the phone boasts premium features such as a titanium hinge rated for one million folds and an IP58 water-resistance rating with nanocrystalline glass protection on the exterior, its internal display proves surprisingly fragile. The inner screen cannot withstand even minimal pressure from a fingernail, revealing a critical weakness in the manufacturing standards of foldable smartphones. This compromise between external durability and internal display vulnerability appears to be endemic to the entire category of high-end foldable devices.
# Translation "The trading house 'Donetsk Coal' received mines with a promise to invest 40 billion rubles, but instead left miners without money and initiated its own bankruptcy. This is not an isolated failure — this is a model.
The SBU and the Office of the Prosecutor General exposed a currency exchange center that had been operating for five years — and inadvertently revealed a list of 200 clients, each of whom is also a subject of criminal proceedings.
Developer "Superposition" announced a large-scale resort on the Dniester Reservoir — but behind the impressive half-billion-dollar figure, so far there is only land, ambitions, and experience from one unfinished Carpathian project.
A private company received billion-hryvnia contracts from the Defense Ministry and National Guard for years while simultaneously operating a network of shell companies managed by residents of the occupied "DNR." Seven suspects have been remanded into custody without bail.
GUR Reveals Characteristics of New Cruise Missile Kh-71K "Kovyor": Electronics from Seven Countries, Range Up to 300 km, Warhead – OFAB-250 Aerial Bomb. Next Step – Launch from S-70 Stealth Drone.
Test firmware for the X946B model has appeared on Samsung servers — a likely Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra. This indicates not rumors, but a concrete development stage: the release is months, not quarters away.
The scandal involving the 14th Brigade is only the second similar case in 1.5 years of the ombudsman's office operation. However, a parallel investigation has revealed that a fighter from another unit spent 502 days on the frontline without rotation.
PlayCity has revoked Cosmolot's operating license and imposed fines totaling 12.9 million hryvnia for a scheme in which players replenished gaming accounts using transfers from third-party cards. A court has suspended the enforcement of the decision — the casino continues operating while the case is being reviewed.
The Operational Command "West" is not merely strengthening its positions — it is forming a multilayered line of containment against the backdrop of Russia simultaneously building up its potential in Tiraspol.
# Budanov Names Specific Weapon Categories Suitable for Sale at Defense Tech Export Forum Budanov at the Defense Tech Export Forum named specific categories of weapons suitable for sale: surplus marine drones and early-model FPV drones that frontline forces have outgrown. Behind this lies harsh logic — either find a market now or lose it forever.
After a Russian drone strike in February 2025, the New Safe Confinement over the destroyed fourth reactor is no longer able to contain radiation. Temporary patches exist, but a full repair has not yet been carried out.
Zelenskyy claims that Kyiv has completed all necessary steps to open negotiation clusters with the EU, and the matter now rests with bloc leaders. However, between technical readiness and formal opening, there is still no approved mechanism in place.
# When prices in Lviv and Uzhhorod became unaffordable, housing demand naturally shifted eastward — to Ternopil. What this means for the local market and whether it can withstand the new wave.
JSC "Apatit" in Cherepovets produces raw materials for fertilizers and ammunition simultaneously. Five wounded and an acid leak are the consequences of an attack that the governor initially called "without damage."
# Former Head of British Defence Staff Breaks Down Russia's Strategic Failure by the Numbers at Kyiv Security Forum — But Immediately Warns: The West Isn't Ready to Capitalize on It.
A scandal involving defenders starving near Kupiansk sparked a systemic response: the commander-in-chief ordered an inspection of supplies on all fronts by May 20, and the investigation has already revealed that commanders were concealing the problems.
On April 25, the city experienced one of the most massive attacks since the beginning of the war — five people killed, over 40 wounded, including children. Russia deliberately struck the same points where rescue operations were already underway.
Tallinn is allocating at least 0.25% of GDP to drones and digital systems for the Armed Forces—while simultaneously freezing a €500 million purchase of its own combat vehicles. A meeting between Fedorov and Pevkur documented not only the amount, but also a shared vision of which equipment determines the outcome of the war.
A five-hryvnia coin honoring 600,000 Chornobyl liquidators transforms the very name of the catastrophe into an artistic device: the word is split between the obverse and reverse, connecting the temporal dimension of the tragedy with its pain.
The government has simplified some permit procedures in construction and introduced a mechanism for appealing refusals. The key legislative changes are so far only instructions from the Ministry of Development.
Overnight from Friday to Saturday, drones attacked Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk region — a record distance and a demonstration of the failure of Russia's air defense system in a single episode.
While the first WES group of OKKO has yet to be launched, the company is already structuring financing for the third — 189 MW with the participation of EBRD, IFC and DBFR. This is not business diversification, but a bet that Western capital is flowing to areas where missiles have already struck.
# Senior US Energy Department Advisor Andy Repp Calls Ukrainian Underground Storage a "Swing Bridge" for Central and Western Europe's Gas Supply Senior advisor to the US Department of Energy Andy Repp has described Ukrainian underground storage facilities as a "swing bridge" — a connecting link in gas supply to Central and Western Europe. Behind this term lies a specific architecture: American LNG through Polish terminals and into Ukrainian underground storage.
# Energy-Independent Internet Based on xPON Reaches More Ukrainian Homes. Which Regions Are Leading — and What It Means for the Rest of the Country.
Starting in August 2025, over 30 new active pharmaceutical ingredients will be added to the reimbursement program, including cardiovascular medications. In parallel, all pharmacies in the country will be required to join the program for the first time.
Obtaining status is not a reward, but an obligation: companies with the largest subsidies are now required to establish supervisory boards with independent directors and build a comprehensive internal control system by December 31, 2026.
Hackers did not breach the servers — they simply wrote in Teams and asked for help. The UNC6692 attack shows that corporate politeness has become the most dangerous entry point into a corporate network.
On April 24, another prisoner exchange took place. Russia held some of the fighters in Chechnya and managed to initiate criminal cases against them — a legal tool that complicates their return and still lacks a systematic response.
After a Russian Shahed-2 strike on the New Safe Confinement at Chornobyl in February 2025, the world received the bill: half a billion euros and a window until 2030, after which corrosion can no longer be stopped.
DJI Lito 1 and Lito X1 — the company's most affordable drones with obstacle avoidance and 4K HDR — emerged just as the FCC blocked the new DJI models from entering the US market.
Defense Minister Mikhaylo Fedorov has published a list of 30 achievements from his first three months in office. The most notable claims — blocking Starlink for Russians and establishing a "short-range" air defense command — have been presented without verified metrics, while recruitment reform remains in an "almost ready" state.
Frontline Robotics has unveiled an upgraded drone featuring AI-powered navigation and electronic warfare protection. In terms of specifications, it represents a step forward. In terms of scale, it's part of a Ukrainian-German production strategy that is already delivering drones to the front lines.
From April 24, the only branch in the frontline town of Komyshuvaкha in Zaporizhzhia Region has not been operating. The company acknowledged that intensive shelling and FPV drones have made it impossible for staff to work.
The Foreign Ministry openly acknowledged what diplomats typically keep silent about: Washington is now viewing Ukraine through the lens of domestic electoral arithmetic, and Kyiv is building its work with this fact in mind.
Honor has released a marketing video in which the batteries of three flagship devices power toy cars on a track. The winner is known in advance — and that's precisely what makes the test demonstrative rather than honest.
The EBRD provided $45 million not for abstract "green generation," but for a specific station with an industrial energy storage system. This is Kernel's second major solar project running parallel to the one in Chernivtsi.
# Arctic Metagaz - Shadow Fleet Vessel Hit by Drone in Mediterranean Loses Control Again After Towline Breaks Arctic Metagaz, a shadow fleet tanker struck by a drone in the Mediterranean Sea on March 3, has again gone out of control following the breaking of its towline. The IMO and EU have received requests for assistance, but responsibility for the ownerless vessel remains undetermined.
After the scandal with a 20-year-old armless veteran, PrivatBank launches a service that will come to the military — the card will no longer require hands for a photo.
Bilohorod village council has signed an official cooperation agreement with the MSOR Ukraine prosthetics center. This is not a charitable gesture — it is systematic work that is already producing results.
Mining giant divests assets and considers share dilution amid liquidity crisis caused by sanctions against its majority shareholder Konstantin Zhevago.
# Translation Unknown individuals sent letters on behalf of SBU Chief Kyrylo Budanov requesting diaspora organizations to "facilitate the return of Ukrainians home" — and chose a moment when Budanov is indeed publicly discussing the return of citizens as a strategic priority.
On the night of April 20, a guided Shahed drone struck the wall of a private house belonging to Serhiy Beskrestnov. The adviser to the defense minister on technology issues survived and was hospitalized — by his own account, "by a miracle."
The Ivano-Frankivsk Prosecutor's Office is demanding compensation from a state enterprise for illegal logging in Hutsulshchyna National Park — the investigation found that the scheme operated under the cover of fake permits for "forest health improvement."
Ukrainian intelligence confirmed damage to the icebreaker "Yamal" and the vessel "Nikolai Filchenko" — two more units of the Russian fleet that Moscow has been trying to preserve from destruction for years.
The IMF agreed to temporarily refrain from insisting on the introduction of VAT for entrepreneurs with income exceeding 4 million hryvnias. However, this is not a concession — it is a postponement under conditions where Kyiv has already missed all three structural benchmarks of the first quarter.
Kyiv has publicly requested Ankara to organize a meeting of leaders in the Zelenskyy–Putin–Erdogan–Trump format. However, the Kremlin remains silent—and this silence is part of the strategy.
# The US Again Suspended Oil Sanctions Against Russia Despite Public Assurances by the Treasury Department. Zelenskyy Calculated: The Price of This Decision is Approximately $10 Billion in Russian Strikes.
Ukraine's secondary real estate market has split for the first time not along regional lines, but according to perceived safety. In areas where people have decided to stay, prices are rising faster than inflation.
Ukraine's Navy struck the "Atlant Aero" enterprise in Taganrog with Neptune cruise missiles — a producer of Molniya attack drones that Russia uses to strike Kharkiv and frontline cities. Satellite imagery confirms damage to at least three workshops.
NATO support has fallen the most sharply among all institutions — by 21.9 percentage points over six months. Meanwhile, attitudes toward China have more than doubled. This is not disillusionment with the idea — it is a bill for specific actions.
At the "Brailiv" station, a locomotive from a mining enterprise collided with the Kyiv-Przemysl train. This is not the first critical threat to the Hyundai Rotem fleet — the fleet is already exhausted by the war.
April road repair record is a real achievement. But it comes with a financial abyss: the state is spending funds that are officially lacking by 46 billion hryvnias.
An American helicopter manufacturer has registered a legal entity in Kyiv with a charter capital of 2.16 million hryvnias — marking just the first step toward assembling combat vehicles directly in Ukraine.
# Ukrainian News Translation Starting April 25, Ukrainian Railways removed the fixed price in premium cars — now it depends on four variables at once. For 30% of passengers who buy tickets a day or two before departure, this is a direct hit to the wallet.
# Russian State Duma Approves Bill Allowing Putin to Send Military Abroad to "Protect" Russians from Foreign Courts The State Duma has passed legislation that would permit President Putin to deploy troops beyond Russia's borders to "protect" Russians from foreign judicial proceedings. Political analysts view the measure not as a humanitarian provision, but rather as legal cover for future military interventions—particularly in the Baltic states.
The head of the Presidential Office acknowledged that over the past six months, Ukraine has been meeting only the minimum recruitment threshold, while Russia has already completed its annual recruitment plan for 2025 — 403,000 people — ahead of schedule.
After Syrsky's report on Russian military regrouping, Zelensky warned: activation in Belarus is not accidental, but the Kremlin's logic with allies is already known from the examples of Maduro and Assad.
# English Translation The Ministry of Defense has not yet formalized the idea of transferring the functions of forced delivery of draft dodgers to the National Police even in the form of a draft law — but the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already publicly declined to accept it. The conflict between the two agencies reveals a deeper problem: who and under what conditions should carry out the most unpopular part of mobilization.
The National Bank of Ukraine set the official euro exchange rate on April 20 at 51.7667 hryvnia—a new historical maximum. Over the past week, the euro has appreciated by nearly one hryvnia, and this is not a temporary spike: businesses are already looking at the 54-hryvnia mark in their forecasts.
A Russian state corporation, through a shell company, obtained a license and has already begun geological exploration at the Velyka-Tokmachka deposit — Ukraine's largest manganese field. This is not a private business initiative, but rather the implementation of Russia's "Strategy for the Development of the Mineral and Raw Materials Base" for 2024.
The new Legion Y70 2026 enters a niche that competitors have largely abandoned. Lenovo is betting on AI-gaming and ecosystem integration — but has yet to confirm either the processor or target markets.
# G7 and Paris Club Extend Moratorium on Ukrainian State Debt Service Until End of February 2030 The G7 and Paris Club have extended the moratorium on servicing Ukraine's state debt until the end of February 2030, in sync with a new $8.1 billion IMF program. This marks the first phase: what happens to the debt next will depend on when and how the war ends.
Oleksandr Kachny, a Member of Parliament who in July 2025 supported a law making anti-corruption bodies dependent on the Prosecutor General, has been served a suspicion notice by those same bodies and ordered to post bail of 3 million hryvnias for assets that do not match his declared income.
A service has integrated search into ChatGPT: instead of forms and filters — regular conversation. The system automatically selects options from carpools to trains.
# English Translation Starting April 17, Samsung Galaxy A57 5G and A37 5G are available in Ukraine from UAH 18,999. However, behind the mid-range technical specifications lies a detail that, given expensive service costs, matters more than megapixels: the A57 received 9 out of 10 points for repairability.
# Translation On July 24, the bank officially notified Moscow of a new investment dispute. The response window is six months, followed by international court proceedings. The damages amount has not been disclosed, but the Crimea precedent demonstrates how this works: $1.1 billion after seven years of litigation.
Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Lepushynskyi assures: zero-emission financing of the deficit will be preserved. Meanwhile, Hetmantsev notes: 14 unmet Ukraine Facility indicators have already cost the country billions — and this is before any new delays.
Deputy Head of Military Intelligence Vadym Skibytskyi told Financial Times that Moscow is already deploying its strategic reserve to the front — and this, in his view, speaks louder than any negotiating rhetoric.
The Czech initiative has already supplied Ukraine with nearly a million shells in 2025 and could reach 1.8 million by year's end — but its future depends on elections in Czechia this autumn.
Since December, Ukraine has not received funds from the Ukraine Facility: the Verkhovna Rada delayed reforms, and the budget lost 3.6 billion euros for the entire 2025. April's vote unblocked a new tranche — and now the price of each subsequent parliamentary failure is measured not only in billions, but also in social payments.
After the destruction of the "Moskva," withdrawal from Sevastopol, and a series of strikes on Novorossiysk, the Russian Black Sea Fleet has lost its ability to operate as a fleet — and now functions mainly as a carrier of missiles for strikes on land.
DTEK Naftohaz is negotiating with the American-Ukrainian fund URIF regarding financing for deep wells. So far, the fund has approved only one of three planned investments for 2026 — and that went not into energy resources, but into defense technologies.
Kyiv and Amsterdam signed a defense cooperation agreement with an emphasis on unmanned aircraft. Details are inside, with more questions than answers so far.
During Easter, the Retroville shopping center turned into a true arena of character. The open city championship of Kyiv in tug-of-war brought together teams from Kyiv, Kyiv region, Lviv and Odesa — and showed that this sport is much more than just a test of strength.
# What Was Supposed to Stay on Galaxy S26 Is Coming to S24 — Samsung Quietly Changed Its Artificial Limitations Strategy After Community Pressure. But Not All Features Are Equal, and Details Matter.
While Citi predicts three African defaults, Senegal is doing everything to accelerate its own: rejecting IMF restructuring, receiving a "junk" bond rating, and struggling to explain €650 million in hidden debt.
# Ukrainian Drone Forces Strike Russian Black Sea Fleet Supply Center in Sevastopol Ukraine's unmanned systems have struck the 758th Material and Technical Supply Center of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol — a facility whose destruction undermines the fleet's operational capabilities. According to military expert Ivan Kyryshevsky, the successful strike demonstrates systematic degradation of Russian air defense systems over Crimea.
Moscow itself announced an Easter ceasefire — and violated it thousands of times. Now Kyiv wants the Security Council to document this publicly, even though there is no enforcement mechanism there.