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Around 3 million Ukrainians updated their personal data in the military reserve registry after a new mobilization law came into effect, most using the new Reserv+ app. Now, it takes 10 minutes to fulfill the constitutional duty online instead of the weeks fearing the “classic process” with the queues and bureaucracy at the Soviet-styled draft offices.

In this week’s edition: Ukraine moves to decentralise its power grid, a global IT outage affects industries around the world, and more. 

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of July 24, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

This is issue 65 of Ukrainian lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak’s weekly “Ukrainian Economy in Brief” newsletter, covering events from July 8-14, 2024. The digest highlights steps taken in the Ukrainian parliament related to business, economics, and international financial programs. The Kyiv Independent is republishing with permission.

Ukraine's Armed Forces announced on July 23 that another batch of its soldiers were in the U.K., learning how to use possibly the best-named weapon on the battlefield – Starstreak. Starstreak isn't a new addition to the battlefield in Ukraine – it was actually among some of the first weapons supplied to Kyiv by the U.K. in order to deny Russia air superiority.

A Ukrainian attack on occupied Crimea resulted in a Russian ferry being "seriously damaged," Ukrainian soldiers shot down a Russian Su-25 attack jet near Pokrovsk; and more.

According to J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s pick for vice president, Russia’s size advantage over Ukraine is reason enough for the United States to cut its support for the country and pursue “negotiations” with the Kremlin. But by that logic, many other countries in the region should share the same fate, writes former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt in his op-ed.

Russian missile strikes that have crippled Ukraine’s grid have created an existential need to move energy production away from large facilities that have become targets for Russian attacks. Though the war has created willpower to redesign the energy system, it has also created serious obstacles, writes Andrea Januta.

Dinara Khalilova is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Dinara was studying media and communications in a U.K. university and planning to look for a media job there. She says that the all-out war against her country changed her plans, making it her mission to tell the Ukrainian stories to international audiences. Dinara is originally from Dnipro, and she recommends everyone to visit her hometown after the war is over. Follow the link to check Dinara's work: https://lnkd.in/ekeF7d5p