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EU Parliament session, loan disbursement, peace talks signals — key events for Ukraine next week
Editor's note: This article is a shortened on-site version of KI Insights' public newsletter, The Week Ahead, covering events from April 27 - May 3. Sign up here to start your week with an agenda of Ukraine-related events delivered directly to your inbox every week. Audio version of The Week Ahead is now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. The recently approved €90 billion loan for Ukraine is now moving toward disbursement, unlocked alongside the EU's 20th sanctions package afte
Russia's Central Bank slashes key rate to 14.5%
The move marks the eighth consecutive rate cut from record highs previously imposed to curb inflation driven by wartime spending.
Trump cannot expel NATO members over Iran stance, alliance official says
The comment comes amid reports that the Pentagon is considering ways to punish NATO members that did not back the U.S.-Israeli war against Tehran.
Ukraine brings home 193 POWs from Russian captivity
President Volodymyr Zelensky said those brought back to Ukraine include individuals against whom Russian authorities have opened criminal cases, as well as wounded soldiers.
Gender-bending Bulgarian novel takes literature world by storm
In the shadow of Albania’s Accursed Mountains, where the centuries-old laws of Kanun dictate people’s fate, Bekija publicly renounces her womanhood to live socially as a man after her father is shot dead in a blood feud and her younger brother flees home. This feverish dynamic is at the heart of Bulgarian author Rene Karabash’s novel “She Who Remains.” Now, thanks to Izidora Angel’s evocative and bold English translation — co-published by Sandorf Passage in the U.S. and Peirene in the U.K. and
Ukrainian Neptune missiles destroy Russian drone factory workshops in Rostov Oblast, General Staff confirms
Ukrainian forces attacked the factory involved in the full cycle of drone production — design, manufacturing, and testing — on April 19.
About Crimea
Russia invaded Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in February 2014 amid the deadliest days of the EuroMaidan Revolution. Around 30,000 Russian troops crossed into Crimea, taking hold of the peninsula by early March 2014. Russia has continued to occupy Crimea ever since. Crimea covers an area of around 27,000 square kilometers (10,400 square miles), roughly the same size as the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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Ukrainian billionaire and oligarch Rinat Akhmetov purchased a luxury apartment in Monaco valued at $550 million in one of the most expensive residential property deals in history, Bloomberg reported April 21.
