U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will arrive in Kyiv early on May 10.
The United States embassy in Kyiv on May 9 issued a warning that Russia could launch "a potentially significant" attack in the coming days, despite Putin's self-declared Victory Day "truce."
The sanctioned oil tankers have transported over $24 billion in cargo since 2024, according to Downing Street. The U.K. has now sanctioned more shadow fleet vessels than any other country.
Washington and its partners are considering additional sanctions if the parties do not observe a ceasefire, with political and technical negotiations between Europe and the U.S. intensifying since last week, Reuters' source said.
The Kyiv Independent’s contributor Ignatius Ivlev-Yorke spent a day with a mobile team from the State Emergency Service in Nikopol in the south of Ukraine as they responded to relentless drone, artillery, and mortar strikes from Russian forces just across the Dnipro River. Nikopol is located across from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Enerhodar.
Peter Szijjarto's announcement came after Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) allegedly dismantled a Hungarian military intelligence network operating in Zakarpattia Oblast.
This photograph shows a warning sign which reads "Dangerous! Mines!" placed near destroyed houses during a demining operation in Hrakove village, Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, on April 18, 2023. (Photo credit: Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images)
A truck and a tractor ran into explosives in Kharkiv Oblast in two separate incidents, leaving three people injured, the Kharkiv Oblast Department of the State Emergency Service reportedon Sept. 7.
The first case happened at around 11 a.m. on Sept. 7 local time. Two people, a man and a woman, were driving a truck on a field road near Mospanove in the Chuhuiv district when their vehicle hit an unspecified explosive object, the State Emergency Service said, citing information from the National Police.
Both of the injured victims have been hospitalized and are in severe condition.
The second incident occurred in the Izium district, in a field between Barvinkove and Chervone. A tractor of a local agricultural company set off what appeared to be cluster munitions.
The tractor's driver, a man born in 1981, was injured. He has been hospitalized and is in stable condition, according to the report.
As a result of Russian aggression, around one-third of Ukraine has been contaminated by mines or unexploded ordnance. With over 200,000 square kilometers of its territory affected, Ukraine is the most heavily mined country in the world, former Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said.
According to the State Emergency Service, since the start of the full-scale invasion, 242 people were killed and 498 were wounded by mines or ordnance.
The number includes 13 killed and 63 injured children.
Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He was also volunteering as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukraïner. Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.
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