The day's dominant story was NABU's anti-corruption operation 'Forrest Gump', which exposed a criminal organization involving people's deputies and high-ranking officials from the President's Office. The operation, covered extensively by Liga.net, Glavcom, TSN, and Novoe Vremya, included searches at the home of MP Stolаr and Sense Bank, and revealed the legalization of 150 million hryvnias for bail. Concurrently, the Rada appointed Yevhenii Khmara as defense minister and reappointed Sybiha as foreign minister, while former minister Fedorov's call for wartime elections drew analysis as a political move. Russian attacks continued: a drone strike on a minibus in Kherson killed four, and a strike on a police building in Zhytomyr killed two officers and injured 40. Ukraine brought home 103 soldiers from Russian captivity.