Gen Randy George was nominated for the role in 2023 by former President Joe Biden.

The judge left in place three allegations against Baldoni, meaning the civil trial will go ahead next month.

The volume of Ukraine’s defense technology market reached approximately $6.8 billion in 2025, with the largest share accounted for by the UAV sector.

General Min Aung is set to be chosen as the next president by the newly-elected parliament.

The former prosecutor has a long-standing relationship with President Trump, having represented him in the criminal hush-money case.

A court has sentenced a Russian informant to eight years in prison for tracking the temporary deployment sites of aviation units and flight schedules of combat helicopters of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Sumy region.

The suspect is in custody but his motive is unknown, the police say in a brief statement.

Russian forces continue to shell Kharkiv, where a four-story building caught fire in the Osnovianskyi district.

There have been 213 combat engagements along the frontline, with the heaviest fighting in the Pokrovsk sector, where Russian forces carried out nearly 50 attacks on Ukrainian positions and lost more than 130 troops.

During the planning of defensive operations in the Kyiv region, the biggest problem at the initial stage was organizing communication between different units, which used radios operating on different frequencies.