Ukraine’s business police, known as the Bureau of Economic Security, searched and confiscated products from e-cigarette sellers in 12 regions, including Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Zakarpattia, Pavlo Buzdyhan, the bureau’s deputy director, told the Kyiv Independent.
"The end of the war in Ukraine... I really think it's getting very close," U.S. President Donald Trump said.
Although the target of the attack was not immediately clear, Volna, located just east of Crimea's Kerch Peninsula, is home to an oil terminal that has previously been the subject of Ukrainian strikes.
The number includes 1,130 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a presidential decree on May 12 imposing sanctions against 32 Russian companies and 34 nationals involved in supplying materials in support of Russia’s military-industrial complex.
A massive fire reportedly broke out at a tourist complex in Moscow overnight on May 13, Russian Telegram media channels reported.
Two people were killed and four others injured, including a 9-month-old girl hospitalized in critical condition, local authorities said.
The Kyiv Independent’s Business Desk covers the biggest news in business, economics, and tech from Ukraine, as well as global developments that shape the economy of the region.
Who is winning? Since the launch of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the information space around the war has been obsessed with this deceptively simple question, and the constant new iterations of answers to it. In the hands of those fighting the narrative war, from officials on both sides, online cheerleaders, armchair generals, and a certain world leader who likes to talk about who has the cards, the answers differ radically, but all are delivered with consistent venom, emotion, and
