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.
A firefighter putting out a fire after a Russian airstrike against Kharkiv on April 30, 2024. (State Emergency Service/Telegram)
Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated.
A Russian strike against two districts of the northeastern city of Kharkiv on April 30 killed at least one person and injured at least nine, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on television.
The authorities initially reported two people killed, but Terekhov said at around 11:15 a.m. local time that previous reports of a second fatality had not been confirmed.
Russian forces reportedly targeted the Kyivskyi and Kholodnohirskyi districts of the city, hitting residential areas, according to the mayor.
Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported that Russia likely attacked the city using KAB aerial bombs. Later during the day, the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office clarified that Russia attacked the city with three UMPB D-30SN glide bombs, two of which were aimed at the Kyivskyi district and one at the Kholodnohirskyi district.
Firefighters putting out a fire after a Russian airstrike against Kharkiv on April 30, 2024. (State Emergency Service/Telegram)
In the Kyivskyi district, a powerful explosion reportedly damaged an administrative building and more than 40 private garages, three of which caught fire.
Two civilian buildings were destroyed in the Kholodnohirskyi district, the State Emergency Service reported.
Russia has recently intensified its attacks against Ukraine's second-largest city, dealing multiple casualties and severe damage to Kharkiv's energy infrastructure.
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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