"During the Spring Meetings, we found understanding from our partners that this is indeed a sensitive topic and a non-constructive idea," Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on April 19 in a Telegram post, referring to the new VAT tax.
At least six people were injured in a Russian drone attack on the city of Sumy overnight on April 21, local authorities reported.
Two police officers in Kyiv have been formally notified of suspicion over their actions during the mass shooting in the city on April 18, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced doubts about peace talks in an April 20 interview, as U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to meet with Ukrainian officials amid stalled negotiations with Russia.
Russian drone attacks on Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv oblasts on April 20 killed three and injured 18 others, authorities reported.
A few days into the U.S.-Iran war, after Iran attacked many of its neighbors, my friend in Kyiv asked her 11-year-old son if he had heard about what was happening. Unworried, he replied they were firing "just Shaheds," and continued playing his game. Ukrainians by now have seen thousands of such attacks. Russia had been pounding Ukraine's energy infrastructure particularly hard lately, leaving precious little time for electricity to charge devices or for kids to play their video games. Iranian
Marta Kos, the European Union's commissioner for enlargement, on April 20 praised the speed of Ukraine’s reforms to align with European standards and called for stronger safeguards to prevent future backsliding. Kos’ assessment comes despite criticism that Ukrainian authorities are dragging their feet on the rule-of-law and economic reforms needed for European integration. In recent months, Ukraine’s parliament has passed some bills required for EU accession but has struggled with others. Kos
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Over 300 AI-related developments are registered on the Brave1 platform, while more than 70 systems based on artificial intelligence and computer vision are already in active use on the battlefield, according to the ministry.
