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.
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.
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.
"Trump needs to believe that Putin actually lies," Zelensky told journalists in Kyiv. "And we should do our part. Sensibly approach this issue, to show that it’s not us that is slowing down the process."
A Ukrainian activist attends a rally against Russian and Belarusian participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic games in Tbilisi on March 26, 2023. (Vano Shlamov/AFP via Getty Images)
A Russian-linked disinformation campaign is targeting the upcoming Paris Olympics, the New York Times (NYT) reported on June 3, citing Microsoft disinformation experts and U.S. officials.
The Paris Olympics, scheduled to begin in late July, has become embroiled in controversy and the spillover of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine. While both Belarus and Russia have been barred from officially participating in the games, athletes from the respective countries will be allowed to compete as independent neutral athletes, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in March.
The IOC's decision prompted criticism from Ukraine and its allies. At the same time, Russia has also accused the IOC of unfairly discriminating against Russian athletes.
The NYT said that a Russian-linked campaign to discredit and disrupt the games "began in earnest" in the summer of 2023, when a "documentary" was released with a doctored IOC logo, along with an AI-powered impersonation of Tom Cruise's voice.
Attacks have continued since then.
"(The hackers) are trying to cultivate an anticipation of violence," said Clint Watts, the head of Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center, in comments to the NYT.
"They want people to be fearful of going to the Olympics."
The hacker group, known as Storm-1679, makes around three to eight disinformation videos a week, Microsoft told the NYT, many of which appear as if they come from famous media outlets like the BBC or Al Jazeera.
Eliot Higgins, the founder of the Netherlands-based investigative journalism outlet Bellingcat, told the NYT that the extent of direct ties between the disinformation campaign and the Kremlin is unclear.
Previous Russian-linked disinformation campaigns have sought to sow chaos by spreading false messages, such as the fake announcement of a partial military mobilization in Poland through the hacking of a state-run media outlet in May.
There have also been more overt threats to the Olympics.
French authorities arrested a Chechen man in France in May after an investigation revealed he was allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on the games.
Mark Temnycky
