An audiovisual art installation titled “The Future Remembers” was inaugurated at the “Motherland” monument in Kiev; marking the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence; the five-minute video will be shown every evening from today to 1 September

Infighting that led to the firing of the defense minister - and to streets protests - and days later of top general Syrskyi, also cracked the all-important sense of wartime unity and overshadowed the narrative that Ukraine is riding high in the war

Ukrainian drone attacks targeted military and energy infrastructure and oil depots on the Baltic coast; the attack came on the opening day of St Petersburg Economic Forum, a three-day event that also welcomed US representatives after years

A chain of human errors led to violate safety procedures in an imperfect reactor and triggered the worst nuclear accident ever recorded, occurred at Chernobyl 40 years ago; Today the area, off-limits to humans, is forested and populated with wild species