Turkish officials told Bloomberg that while they don't expect Trump to visit Istanbul, they are not ruling it out, and preparations for any scenario are underway.
Melkonyants was arrested in August 2023 in connection with the activities of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO), which was co-founded by Golos's legal predecessor, the Golos association.
Ukraine's underground storage facilities are currently using 19.4% of their capacity. Almost 32%, or 2.79 bcm, less gas is available in the storages than in the previous year, according to the estimates.
The majority of Ukrainians, 71%, do not support holding elections before a full peace deal, even in the case of a ceasefire and security guarantees, according to a poll published by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) on May 14.
"He'd like me to be there, and that's a possibility. ... I don't know that he would be there if I'm not there. We're going to find out," U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One while traveling to Qatar, Reuters reported.
Trump has long demanded that NATO allies increase their military spending, previously calling for the alliance to raise its benchmark from 2% to 5% of GDP.
More than 1,000 Russian government entities and 1,200 private companies are involved in the economy of occupied Mariupol, a major southeastern city occupied by Russia after it invaded Ukraine in 2022, according to a research paper published on May 14.
The measures target almost 200 ships of Russia's "shadow fleet," 30 companies involved in sanctions evasion, 75 sanctions on entities and individuals linked to the Russian military-industrial complex, and more.
The government has approved "reform roadmaps in the rule of law, public administration, and democratic institutions, as well as Ukraine’s negotiation position," Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
The statement did not name the ex-official by name, but details of the case indicate it relates to Oleh Hladkovsky, a former deputy secretary of Ukraine's top security body who has been wanted since mid-April.
Roman Ihnatov, head of the High Qualification Commission of Judges (the High Qualification Commission's site).
The High Qualification Commission, one of Ukraine's key judicial bodies, approved on March 27 the request of its chair Roman Ihnatov to be dismissed from the commission.
Ihnatov said he wrote the letter of his resignation as both the head and a member of the commission without "any influence or coercion."
Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service alleged last December that the official has Russian citizenship, a claim that Ihnatov denied. The allegations were also contested by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Schemes investigative project, which previously uncovered the Russian passports of several other judges.
A working group of the High Qualification Commission issued a report in February saying that Ihnatov studied in Russia's Saratov between 1991 and 1995 under a temporary residence permit, but there is no evidence of him ever acquiring a Russian passport.
"(Ihnatov's) Russian citizenship is impossible to confirm due to the lack of diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation," a member of the working group concluded.
The official also reportedly came under investigation by the State Bureau of Investigation. According to Ihnatov, the bureau opened a treason case against him in connection with his visit to Russian-occupied Luhansk in November 2014.
Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He was also volunteering as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukraïner. Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.
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