During January-July, internal affairs bodies, prosecutor's offices, and tax police registered 326,700 crimes, which is 5.7% more compared to the corresponding period last year. Of all crimes investigated by internal affairs bodies and prosecutor's offices, more than half (50.2%) are grave and especially grave. The increase in the number of such crimes was particularly pronounced in Odesa (more by 25.8% compared to last year), Volyn (17.7%), Zaporizhzhia (16.4%), and Kyiv (13.1%) regions. This was reported by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. In the total number of crimes, 60.5% are crimes against property, 12.6% - crimes in the sphere of circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues or precursors and other crimes against public health, 4.4% - crimes against public order and morality, 4.3% - crimes against life and health, 3.8% - in the sphere of official activity, 3.4% and 2.4% - respectively crimes against traffic safety and operation of transport and crimes against public safety. During the 7 months of this year, 2,224 intentional murders and attempted murders were committed, 538 rapes and attempted rapes. The number of robberies compared to last year increased 1.4 times and reached 22,900 cases, and armed robberies - by 9.7% to 3,200 cases. During January-July, 115,800 thefts of private property were recorded, among which almost a third are apartment thefts. 27,200 cases of embezzlement of state or collective property were recorded. Internal affairs bodies and prosecutor's offices exposed 529 organized groups and criminal organizations - 10.0% more than in the analogous period of 2003. The groups committed 4,090 crimes, of which more than three quarters are grave and especially grave. Organized crime reached its greatest scale in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, where 63 and 53 organized criminal groups were detected respectively. In the territory of Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, the activity of 70 criminal groups was stopped (35 in each region).