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In the first half of 2026, IT specialists paid more than 30 billion hryvnias in taxes to the state budget. This is 6 billion more than in the same period in 2025. Traditionally, legal entities paid more than individual entrepreneurs. Such data was provided to DOU by the State Tax Service of Ukraine. By which KVEDs did we calculate We chose the directions "Computer programming" and "Data processing, posting information on websites and related activities" as the most popular among IT entrepreneurs. It should be noted that some IT professionals register their activities under other KVEDs, so the data presented only partially reflects tax activity in IT.  How taxes were paid in 2026 In the first quarter of 2026, IT professionals paid over 15 billion hryvnias. Of these, legal entities paid 10 billion, and individual entrepreneurs - over 4 billion hryvnias in taxes. In the second quarter, the dynamics were similar: legal entities paid 10 billion, and individual entreprene...

Flights were suspended until 01:55 a.m. due to the incident, and one of the cargo planes went on a second go-around. After that, it collided with an unknown object about six kilometers from the airport and later landed in Hanover with a damaged nose. The southern runway was left closed for investigative actions. Update: A Ukrainian plane at an airfield in Leipzig, Germany, remained unharmed after a drone with explosives was discovered nearby.  No one was injured, the circumstances of the incident are being investigated by law enforcement.  The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported this to journalists.

🇸🇪  The Supreme Court of Sweden supported the arrest and transfer to Ukraine of the Russian shadow fleet vessel Caffa, which is a landmark event because it opens a window for new approaches. There are several important points and precedents in this event: 📌First, it is a precedent when an EU member state, at the request of the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, goes through the entire procedural and judicial chain: detention - arrest - trial - confiscation - transfer. And although case law does not operate within the EU on a par with Great Britain, this event is a precedent for political action "as it may look". And the fact that Swedish justice is considered one of the highest quality in Europe creates political and reputational pressure for other national judicial systems to follow suit.  📌 Secondly, this is a successful precedent of interaction between the Ukrainian prosecutor's office and Swedish colleagues, which, most importantly, emphasizes the importance of in...

According to the ZEIT investigation, German intelligence services believe that there was an attempt [ordered by Russia] on the life of Stefan Tumann, the head of Donaustahl, a German defense startup that supplies reconnaissance drones and kamikaze drones to Ukraine. The planned attempt on the head of a German company is one of the cases that is discussed time and again in the Federal Chancellery. They no longer have any illusions: Russia views Germany as an enemy. The Russians use everything from agitation and propaganda to sabotage and assassinations. Stefan Tumann’s case is not the only one. According to ZEIT, another defense company is in the sights of Russian intelligence services. In the case, which is classified, investigators do not rule out that the life of the head of another defense enterprise is under threat.  Back in 2024, data emerged that Russian agents were spying on the head of 🇩🇪 Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger. Stefan Thumann is a hunter and sports shooter who cult...

🔥 Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point has agreed with more than a dozen European defense companies to supply radars, guidance systems and other components for the Freya missile defense project and is already starting to integrate these systems. This was reported to Reuters by the company's CEO Iryna Terek. 💬 Almost everything is agreed, - said Reuters CEO Iryna Terek, noting that 13 industrial partners have already joined the project. And added that Fire Point seeks to carry out the first successful interception by mid-2027. 💬 Now we are at the most intensive and at the same time the most difficult stage - the final assembly of everything together: with surveillance radars, with tracking radars, with homing heads Norwegian Kongsberg is working on a command center that will integrate various systems. The guidance system will be provided by German Diehl Defence, which produces a homing head for its own IRIS-T air defense complex.  A Diehl spokesman confirmed that the company is in t...

 Vasyl Lomachenko personally presented the WBO championship belt to Mason  Lomachenko held this title from 2018 to 2020.