The head of the Security Service of Ukraine's (SBU) counter-terrorism department is arrested on suspicion of working for Russia since 2018.[6]
US president Donald Trump announces the beginning of negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine following a phone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin.[7]
13 February – President Zelenskyy imposes sanctions on multiple oligarchs and individuals including former president Petro Poroshenko, Viktor Medvedchuk, Kostyantyn Zhevago, Ihor Kolomoisky and Hennadiy Boholyubov on suspicion of "high treason" and assisting a terrorist organization, particularly their role in compromising national security through unfavorable business agreements with Russia.[8]
3 March – The United States suspends all military aid to Ukraine.[11]
5 March – The United States suspends intelligence sharing with Ukraine.[12]
12 March – After talks between US and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia, the United States resumes military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine as well as intelligence support.[13]
28 April – Former president Viktor Yanukovych is convicted and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment in absentia by a Ukrainian court on charges of inciting the desertion of Ukrainian officials and organizing illegal border crossings to Russia during his escape in 2014.[19]
1 May – The Supreme Court of Ukraine rules against religious exemptions from military service during wartime following a case involving a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses who refused to undergo mobilization.[21]
23–25 May – Russia and Ukraine conduct the largest prisoner exchange during the Russo-Ukrainian war that had been agreed upon during the 16 May peace negotiations in Istanbul, resulting in the release of more than 1,000 prisoners on each side.[27]
June
10 June – The Desniansky District Court in Kyiv becomes the first court in Ukraine to recognize a same-sex couple as a family under Ukrainian law after it rules that the relationship between Zoryan Kis, first secretary of the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel, and his partner Tymur Levchuk, constituted a de facto marriage following their wedding in the United States and a case brought against the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over its refusal to recognize the couple's spousal rights.[28]
29 June – President Zelenskyy signs a decree withdrawing Ukraine from the Ottawa Treaty on Landmines.[29]
10 July – An SBU colonel is shot dead by an unidentified gunman in Holosiivskyi District, Kyiv.[32] Two suspected Russian FSB agents accused of carrying out the killing are in turn killed in an SBU raid on a safehouse in Kyiv Oblast on 13 July.[33][34]
14 July – President Zelenskyy announces a government reshuffle and nominates Yulia Svyrydenko as prime minister.[35] Following the announcement, outgoing prime minister Denys Shmyhal submits his resignation the next day,[36] which the Verkhovna Rada accepts on 16 July.[37]
Hungary imposes an entry ban on Ukrainian military officials amid a diplomatic dispute caused by the death of a dual Hungarian-Ukrainian citizen who died in disputed circumstances following his mobilization into the Ukrainian military.[40]
31 July – President Zelenskyy signs a law reinstating the independence of the NABU and SAPO amid threats of a suspension of financial support from the European Union and the G7 if these agencies were subdued.[44]
August
4 August – MP Oleksiy Kuznyetsov and former Luhansk Oblast governor Serhii Haidai are arrested on charges related to a corruption scandal involving inflated state contracts for drones and electronic warfare equipment from 2024 to 2025.[45]
15 August – The telecommunications firm Kyivstar is listed on NASDAQ, becoming the first Ukrainian company to be listed on an American stock exchange.[47]
The Ukrainian military officially acknowledges the entry of Russian forces into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[49]
The government revises its travel regulations to allow men aged between 18 and 22 years old to leave Ukraine for the first time since the Russian invasion.[50]
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