Russia's aggression against Ukraine - day 534. The most important events of the last hours

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been going on for 534 days. The Sprotiv portal, created by the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine, reported that Russia is preparing children from temporarily occupied areas to fight against the Ukrainian army. Here are the highlights of the last hours.

• The Sprotiv portal, created by the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine, reported that Russia is preparing children from temporarily occupied areas to fight against the Ukrainian army. "In this way, the enemy continues the policy of destroying a whole generation of Ukrainians, brainwashing children and trying to recruit them to war with their homeland", it was noted.
  
  
• Russian emergency services said late on Thursday that a fire had broken out in Odintsovo, a town west of Moscow between Vladimir Putin's official residence and Vnukovo airport, TASS reported. The cause of the fire, which firefighters are fighting, has not been disclosed.
  
  
• The White House asked Congress on Thursday to pass an additional spending package totaling more than $20 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine. "The president has confirmed that we will support Ukraine as it defends its sovereignty for as long as necessary", Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), wrote in a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
  
  
• The Ukrainian authorities have still not confiscated the assets of 88 companies operating in the country, which are directly or indirectly controlled by 25 Russian oligarchs. Some of these businessmen openly support the Russian army, Ukrainska Pravda revealed on Thursday, citing an analysis by the NGO StateWatch.
  
  
• A court in the Lviv region of Ukraine has sentenced a soldier who was 11 days late with his leave to five years in prison, the Hromadske portal reported on Thursday, publishing the court's verdict. The man from the city of Vilnius in the Odessa region in southern Ukraine served as a border guard inspector and operator of anti-aircraft systems.

Kuleba: Ukrainian arms production should become part of the NATO complex

Ukraine will organize the Defense Industries Forum this autumn, the aim of which will be to include domestic production in the overall defense complex of NATO.

This was announced by Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.

- Everything indicates that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will use NATO-type weapons. When we have aviation, when the F-16s arrive, then the last remaining large "non-decommunized" segment of the Armed Forces will go to NATO standards. This is an inevitable process, said the minister.

Ukraine took the initiative to organize a large Forum of Defense Industries.

Kułeba added that preparations for the Forum will be carried out jointly with the Ministry of Strategy and Industry, the Ministry of Defense and the Chancellery of the President to bring together Ukrainian and foreign producers.

"Ukraine needs other governments to make political decisions on cooperation and integration of their defense industry with the Ukrainian defense industry", Kuleba stressed.

Ukraine: Cruise missiles will not be used on Russian territory

Cruise missiles will not be used on Russian territory, says Ukraine

Ukraine does not want to use cruise missiles ordered by Germany and the United States on Russian territory, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a post on the social network X.

He called the long-range missiles "crucial" and said Ukraine had asked both countries to send the missiles "as soon as possible."

Kuleba assured Berlin and Washington that the missiles "will be used only within the borders of Ukraine".