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.
Russian emergency services at a heating station in Shagonar, Russia, following an explosion on March 6, 2024. (Tuva Republic head Vladislav Khovalyg/Telegram)
An explosion followed by a fire occurred on March 6 at a heating station in the town of Shagonar in Russia's Tuva Republic, injuring dozens and leaving thousands without heat, the Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported.
According to the latest information, one person died in the hospital, and 23 were injured, TASS said. Some 15 of them were hospitalized with burns and other injuries, six of them are reportedly in serious condition, officials said.
The explosion in the south Siberian town was first reported at 8:49 a.m. local time, causing a fire and heavy smoke that began to emit from the heating station, Russia's Emergency Ministry said.
"The explosion took place in the station's boiler room, specifically at the fuel supply point with a belt container, without damaging the boilers," the ministry said.
Emergency services had arrived on site and eventually put out the fire, TASS reported. As a result of the incident, about 4,000 people were left without heating.
It remains unclear what caused the explosion. The investigative committee in the Tuva Republic launched a criminal case on the grounds of negligence.
Shagonar, a town of around 11,000 residents, lies some 80 kilometers (49.7 miles) north of the Russo-Mongolian border and 3,500 kilometers (2,174.8 miles) east of Moscow.
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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