EU institutions and investment banks signed agreements on loans, guarantees, and grants across a range of sectors at the EU-Ukraine Business Summit held in Brussels on April 22–23.
A Ukrainian economic watchdog has urged the European Union to sanction exports of raw glycerin to Russia after a Kyiv Independent investigation found that European suppliers continued shipping the chemical, which can be used to produce explosives, to companies connected to Russia's military industrial complex. The recommendation was submitted on March 11 by the Economic Security Council of Ukraine, or ESCU, an independent Kyiv-based organization that said it based its proposal on the Kyiv Indep
Ukrainian forces used FP-2 drones manufactured by the Ukrainian defense company Fire Point and designed for medium-range strikes, with a payload of 60 to 100 kilograms.
President Zelensky said the loan will "strengthen our army, make Ukraine more resilient, and enable us to fulfill our social obligations to Ukrainians."
Russia is drawing new Russian buyers to occupied Mariupol with subsidized mortgages while thousands of Ukrainians whose homes were destroyed or seized remain without housing.
Combustion byproducts were released into the atmosphere and fell with rain on April 22, leaving a black coating on surfaces, the Krasnodar Krai Emergency Response Headquarters said.
According to investigators, Russian operatives gave teenagers step-by-step instructions on preparing attacks.
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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.
