Kyiv will have to improve its revenue collection and how efficiently it spends money, the European Commission said in a press release on May 20, if it wants to access more than $8 billion of the loan.
The ministers agreed to hold a second round of consultations on the Hungarian minority in Ukraine next week.
The number includes 880 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
Ukraine first began conducting regular strikes on Russian oil refineries in 2023, with strikes growing in both magnitude and frequency since. In the first five months of 2026, Kyiv has recorded 32 strikes, nearly surpassing the total number of refinery strikes recorded in 2024 at 34, the outlet noted.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States will send more troops to Poland, saying the decision was based on his relationship with Polish President Karol Nawrocki.
The annual award, named in honor of the late investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze, recognizes journalists committed to independent and principled reporting.
For millions of Europeans, the era of Russian domination over the nations east of the former Iron Curtain remains a vivid, living memory. But while the Kremlin's tide receded across most of Central and Eastern Europe, others remain stuck within Russia's borders, yearning for the freedom of national expression that has yet to materialize. European history is littered with tales of one nation's brutality towards another, but very few nations have experienced what can truly be called a genocide —
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Kyiv will have to improve its revenue collection and how efficiently it spends money, the European Commission said in a press release on May 20, if it wants to access more than $8 billion of the loan.
