Approximately one thousand mobile and stationary fire groups of the National Guard of Ukraine are actively protecting critical infrastructure and responding to aerial threats, bolstering the country's defense capabilities.

Crews of the Lasar's Group, a separate special purpose detachment of the National Guard of Ukraine, destroyed two Russian BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems in the Donetsk region.

NDTV caught up with a sniper from the Second Corps "Khartiia" of the National Guard of Ukraine, Brigade Raid, special operations sniper unit, who spoke about the realities of the job.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has awarded the rank of brigadier general to Denys "Redis" Prokopenko, Commander of the First Corps Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine.

Fighters from the special unmanned aerial systems unit Lasar's Group of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed a Russian S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile system in Russia's Belgorod region.