Turkey: 3 ships carrying grain to leave Ukrainian ports on Aug. 5.

A massive fire reportedly broke out at a tourist complex in Moscow overnight on May 13, Russian Telegram media channels reported.

U.S. President Donald Trump said May 12 that he believes Russia's war against Ukraine is nearing an end and that Moscow and Kyiv are moving closer to a settlement.

Two people were killed and four others injured, including a 9-month-old girl hospitalized in critical condition, local authorities said.

Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat, expressed "frustration" over the slow pace of the bloc's defense industry production, drawing a stark contrast with Ukraine's growth.

The attacks come after the three-day Victory Day ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia ended.

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.

Months later, Russians responsible for acts of genocide against Ukrainian children find themselves added to Western sanctions lists.

Anastasiia Chvylova says Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, later wanted by the International Criminal Court, told abducted Ukrainian children they were Russian and pushed them toward Russian education and youth programs.

Ukraine struck Russian military targets in occupied Donetsk Oblast after renewed Russian attacks following the end of a three-day Victory Day ceasefire.

"The president of Ukraine did not and does not appear within the framework of this pre-trial investigation," said Semen Kryvonos, director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau.

According to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, those charged are a former deputy prime minister, an alleged ringleader of the Energoatom corruption scheme, and four others.

"Russia itself chose to end the partial silence that had lasted for several days," President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X on May 12.