The air raid was announced at around 2:30 p.m. local time, while the explosion sounded around 2:50 p.m.
Melkonyants was arrested in August 2023 in connection with the activities of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO), which was co-founded by Golos's legal predecessor, the Golos association.
Ukraine's underground storage facilities are currently using 19.4% of their capacity. Almost 32%, or 2.79 bcm, less gas is available in the storages than in the previous year, according to the estimates.
The majority of Ukrainians, 71%, do not support holding elections before a full peace deal, even in the case of a ceasefire and security guarantees, according to a poll published by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) on May 14.
"He'd like me to be there, and that's a possibility. ... I don't know that he would be there if I'm not there. We're going to find out," U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One while traveling to Qatar, Reuters reported.
Trump has long demanded that NATO allies increase their military spending, previously calling for the alliance to raise its benchmark from 2% to 5% of GDP.
Two of the suspects were reportedly detained over the weekend, and the third on May 13, during police raids in Germany and Switzerland.
More than 1,000 Russian government entities and 1,200 private companies are involved in the economy of occupied Mariupol, a major southeastern city occupied by Russia after it invaded Ukraine in 2022, according to a research paper published on May 14.
This marks Zelensky's highest trust rating recorded by KIIS since December 2023, when he enjoyed the confidence of 77% of respondents.
The measures target almost 200 ships of Russia's "shadow fleet," 30 companies involved in sanctions evasion, 75 sanctions on entities and individuals linked to the Russian military-industrial complex, and more.
The government has approved "reform roadmaps in the rule of law, public administration, and democratic institutions, as well as Ukraine’s negotiation position," Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
The statement did not name the ex-official by name, but details of the case indicate it relates to Oleh Hladkovsky, a former deputy secretary of Ukraine's top security body who has been wanted since mid-April.
Brazilian President Lula da Silva claimed that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha had appealed to his Brazilian counterpart, Mauro Vieira, to ask Putin if he was willing to conclude a peace agreement.
Iran acknowledges supplying Russia with drones, claims it happened before Feb. 24
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian acknowledged for the first time on Nov. 5 that his country had provided drones to Russia but claimed that it happened before Russia's full-scale invasion.
Tehran's unexpected confession comes as Russia ramps up its attacks on targets across Ukraine with Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones.
"We gave a limited number of drones to Russia months before the Ukraine war," Amir-Abdollahian told reporters after a meeting in Tehran, the Associated Press quotes.
The first-ever known case of Ukraine shooting down an Iranian-made kamikaze drone took place in September, near the liberated city of Kupiansk in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast. Since then, Russia has launched waves of attacks using kamikaze drones in strikes that killed civilians and destroyed energy facilities nationwide.
Russian-operated kamikaze drones attacked Kyiv for the first time on Oct. 17, killing five people.

Despite growing evidence, Iran has thus far denied accusations that it has supplied Russia with its drones. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed in October that Russia wasn't using Iranian drones in its war against Ukraine.
Both Ukrainian and Western intelligence assessments signal that Tehran has provided Russia with deadly weapons and will likely continue doing so.
Ukraine's intelligence previously said that Iran plans to send over 200 combat drones to Russia in early November, and kamikaze drones would be included in the upcoming batch.
In addition to the drones, Iran is preparing to send about 1,000 additional weapons, which would include the first-ever delivery of surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missiles that could boost Moscow's military capabilities, according to Western officials who spoke with CNN.
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