Category: World

Ukrainian artistic director Andrii Pryimachenko has reached a settlement with HBO by means of a New York courtroom after the corporate copied his work within the Chernobyl miniseries with out crediting him because the writer. The courtroom proceedings lasted for greater than six years. [Chernobyl is the Russian transliteration of the nuclear power plant’s name, while Chornobyl is the Ukrainian one – ed.]

Supply: Pryimachenko on Fb

Quote: "The settlement with HBO has been reached. The events have come to an settlement on account of the method in america District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York. This can be a important precedent, because it marks a profitable defence of a Ukrainian’s copyright in a US courtroom in a case towards one of many largest American (and world) media firms."

Particulars: In 2019, when HBO launched the Chernobyl miniseries, Pryimachenko’s video was used within the first episode with out his permission.

The video in query is a visualisation of the recorded telephone conversations on 26 April 1986 between the dispatcher of the central fireplace communication hub and the dispatchers of the paramilitary fireplace station of the Chornobyl Nuclear Energy Plant.

On the time, Pryimachenko immediately contacted the sequence’ director Craig Mazin. Nevertheless, HBO’s authorized staff responded as an alternative, claiming that the video was 100% distinctive and made by the staff.

Regardless of this, Pryimachenko succeeded in defending his copyright to the work, as his visualisation video had been uploaded to the Studio Peredova YouTube channel again on 18 March 2013. The five-episode British-American miniseries Chernobyl, created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, was launched in Could 2019.

"My objective was to revive justice. It doesn’t matter what firm it’s or which nation it comes from – be it america or China – you can’t take another person’s work and faux nothing occurred," Pryimachenko added.

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Regulation enforcement officers have reportedly performed a search on the residence of Rostyslav Shurma, former Deputy Head of the Workplace of the President, in Germany.

Supply: Spiegel

Particulars: "Rostyslav Shurma was Deputy Head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Workplace. On the request of Ukrainian anti-corruption investigators, Bavarian investigators carried out a search at his home within the city of Starnberg (Bavaria)," Spiegel states.

Spiegel reported that the investigative actions came about on 15 July.

In response to Ukrainska Pravda sources, on the identical day, Shurma – who has not appeared in Ukraine since leaving the nation in 2024 – known as a senior official from the Workplace of the President and knowledgeable them that detectives from the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau, along with German regulation enforcement, had performed a search at his residence in a suburb of Munich and seized his telephone.

Spiegel emphasises that the Bavarian investigators searched Shurma’s property in Starnberg based mostly on a mutual authorized help request from the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.

Background:

• Earlier, Ukrainska Pravda's sources reported that in mid-July, the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine performed a search at Rostyslav Shurma's residence in a suburb of Munich, Germany. Shurma was the official overseeing your entire financial sector on behalf of President Zelenskyy’s Workplace.
• In response to Ukrainska Pravda, the search at Shurma’s residence was one of many ultimate straws for President Zelenskyy, who, every week later, publicly accused the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecution’s Workplace of being "ineffective" and signed a regulation considerably limiting the independence of those establishments.

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Two individuals have been injured and farms, an academic establishment, infrastructure services, homes and vehicles broken in Russian strikes on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the night time of 31 July-1 August.

Supply: Serhii Lysak, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Army Administration, on Telegram

Quote: "Drone strikes had been recorded within the Synelnykove district, particularly within the Vasylkivka, Ukrainske and Mykolaivka hromadas. A 35-year-old lady has been injured. A number of fires broke out. Two farms, an academic establishment and a publish workplace caught fireplace. There was additionally a fireplace on the grounds of a property." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Particulars: The Russians additionally attacked the Pokrovske hromada, damaging a home.

"Early experiences point out that two kids have been pulled from underneath the rubble. Particulars are being confirmed," Lysak famous.

Broken home Picture: Serhii Lysak on Telegram

The Russians additionally attacked the Nikopol district, hanging town of Nikopol in addition to Chervonohryhorivka and Marhanets hromadas with drones and artillery. A 25-year-old man has been injured right here. He will likely be handled on an outpatient foundation. Infrastructure services and vehicles have been broken within the Nikopol district.

Lysak stated air defenders had destroyed three Russian UAVs over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in a single day.

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Russia has misplaced 940 troopers killed and wounded and 33 artillery methods over the previous day.

Supply: Common Workers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Fb

Particulars: The whole fight losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 1 August 2025 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses – ed.]:

• roughly 1,054,200 (+940) army personnel;
• 11,068 (+1) tanks;
• 23,068 (+2) armoured fight automobiles;
• 30,944 (+33) artillery methods;
• 1,451 (+0) multiple-launch rocket methods;
• 1,203 (+0) air defence methods;
• 421 (+0) fixed-wing plane;
• 340 (+0) helicopters;
• 49,057 (+163) operational-tactical UAVs;
• 3,551 (+3) cruise missiles;
• 28 (+0) ships/boats;
• 1 (+0) submarine;
• 56,894 (+72) automobiles and gasoline tankers;
• 3,935 (+0) particular automobiles and different gear.

The knowledge is being confirmed.

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Liliia Stepanchuk, a patrol police officer, was a type of killed in Russia’s in a single day missile strike on Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi district.

Supply: Ivan Vyhovskyi, Head of the Nationwide Police of Ukraine

Quote: "The terrorist state intentionally targets civilians, strikes Ukrainian properties and ruthlessly takes lives… Tragically, our colleague, patrol police officer Liliia Stepanchuk, was killed within the missile strike on Sviatoshynskyi district in Kyiv.

Liliia served as an inspector with platoon No. 2 of firm No. 3 in battalion No. 1 (masking the left financial institution) of the Patrol Police Division in Kyiv. She joined the police drive in 2017…

Emergency employees recovered her physique from below the rubble. Her father should still be trapped beneath the ruins of the constructing; search and rescue operations are ongoing."

Background: No less than fifteen individuals, together with a younger little one, have been killed in a Russian mixed strike on the capital on the night time of 30-31 July. One other 145 individuals have been injured.

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has dismissed the threats made by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Safety Council, amid President Donald Trump's deadline for a ceasefire.

Supply: Rubio in an interview with Fox Radio, revealed by the State Division press service, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Rubio believes Medvedev is "not a related participant in Russian politics".

"He's not a call maker. He's not in any of the conferences or conversations we've ever had," he added.

Rubio famous that Medvedev had served as Russia's president for 4 years however referred to him as a "placeholder" for Vladimir Putin: "So I wouldn't name him a related resolution maker."

"However by the identical token, clearly he's somebody who as soon as held workplace there and continues to be in a task in authorities, and his phrases are going to have influence in form of being the provocateur and issues of that nature," he stated.

Rubio expressed doubt that Medvedev's phrases mirror Russia's official place and added that they’re unlikely "to be an element".

Background:

• Earlier this week, Trump stated that the US would start imposing tariffs and different measures towards Russia in 10 days if Moscow doesn’t present progress in ending the struggle in Ukraine.
• In response, Medvedev stated that Trump was taking part in a sport of ultimatums with Russia. He additionally said that every new ultimatum is a menace and a step towards struggle, specifying that it might not be a struggle between Russia and Ukraine, however with the US.
• In flip, Trump stated that Medvedev ought to "watch his phrases" and that he was going too far.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that he heard a report from Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who confirmed that Ukrainian defenders are holding the Pokrovsk entrance and that details about the occupation of Chasiv Yar is "a Russian faux".

Supply: Zelenskyy's night tackle on 31 July

Quote: "There was a report from Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi. The road of contact, particularly the Pokrovsk entrance, the place our models are holding their positions. Pokrovsk and Dobropillia are the place essentially the most intense preventing is going on. It's essential that our warriors are repelling Russian sabotage and reconnaissance teams, small teams which might be continuously attempting to interrupt into town, continuously attempting to realize a foothold there. That’s the Russian tactic and our response to it’s the destruction of the occupiers.

There have been Russian fakes right now [31 July], as you could have seen, [information about occupation] of Chasiv Yar is Russian disinformation. Ukrainian models are defending our positions and we’re repelling each Russian try to advance in Donetsk, Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts."

Background: On 31 July, the Russian Defence Ministry claimed that Russian forces had captured town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast. The Khortytsia Operational Tactical Group refuted these claims.

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The dying toll from the Russian assault on Kyiv on the evening of 30-31 July has risen to 16, together with two kids. The variety of injured has additionally elevated, now reaching 159.

Supply: Tymur Tkachenko, Head of Kyiv Metropolis Navy Administration; State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Particulars: Tkachenko reported that, in line with the accessible info, there are two kids among the many 15 deceased.

The State Emergency Service confirmed that the youngsters had been six and 17 years previous.

The variety of injured has risen to 159 folks.

Emergency and rescue operations have been accomplished within the Solomianskyi district, whereas within the Sviatoshynskyi district they’re nonetheless ongoing.

Background:

• On the evening of 30-31 July, Russian forces attacked town of Kyiv with drones and missiles.
• Twenty-seven places throughout 4 districts of the capital had been affected by the assault.
• Six-year-old Matvii Marchenko was killed within the Russian assault on Kyiv. He was a scholar of a Kyiv karate membership.

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The Separate Presidential Brigade named after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi has launched footage of the second a Russian Iskander-Okay missile heading for Kyiv was shot down.

Supply: Separate Presidential Brigade named after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi

Quote: "The second the enemy missile was shot down was captured on video! Through the in a single day air assault on Kyiv, a crew from the MANPADS unit of our brigade's Anti-Plane Missile and Artillery Division shot down a Russian Iskander-Okay missile."

Particulars: Earlier, Colonel Yurii Ihnat, Head of the Communications Division of Air Power Command, defined that the Iskander-Okay cruise missile isn’t any much less harmful than the Iskander-M ballistic missile, as its flight time could be very brief.

This time, the Russians launched cruise missiles from Russia’s Kursk Oblast, which is comparatively near Kyiv. That meant there was little or no time to detect them and reply. One other side of the Russians’ techniques is the extraordinarily low altitudes – the missile hugs the terrain, making it tough for air defences to detect.

Solely three out of eight missiles had been intercepted through the evening.

Background: On the evening of 30-31 July, Russia launched 317 drones and missiles on Ukraine, most of which focused Kyiv. Ukrainian air defences intercepted 291 aerial property.

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