The United States embassy in Kyiv on May 9 issued a warning that Russia could launch "a potentially significant" attack in the coming days, despite Putin's self-declared Victory Day "truce."
The sanctioned oil tankers have transported over $24 billion in cargo since 2024, according to Downing Street. The U.K. has now sanctioned more shadow fleet vessels than any other country.
The sanctions list includes 58 individuals and 74 companies, with 67 Russian enterprises related to military technology.
Washington and its partners are considering additional sanctions if the parties do not observe a ceasefire, with political and technical negotiations between Europe and the U.S. intensifying since last week, Reuters' source said.
Despite the Kremlin's announcement of a May 8–11 truce, heavy fighting continued in multiple regions throughout the front line.
Putin has done in Russia everything that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had been against in Brazil.
The Kyiv Independent’s contributor Ignatius Ivlev-Yorke spent a day with a mobile team from the State Emergency Service in Nikopol in the south of Ukraine as they responded to relentless drone, artillery, and mortar strikes from Russian forces just across the Dnipro River. Nikopol is located across from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Enerhodar.
Peter Szijjarto's announcement came after Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) allegedly dismantled a Hungarian military intelligence network operating in Zakarpattia Oblast.
Moscow and Washington discuss the potential resumption of Russian gas supplies to Europe, among other issues related to the peaceful settlement of Russia's war in Ukraine, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov confirmed to the Russian state-run Interfax news agency.
Ukraine's agriculture industry has lost $80 billion due to Russian invasion, minister says
Ukraine's agricultural sector has suffered around $80 billion in losses due to Russia's full-scale invasion, Agriculture Minister Vitalii Koval said on Feb. 25 during a World Bank report presentation.
This figure includes not only direct damage but also indirect damage caused by disrupted logistics, increased fertilizer and fuel costs, expenses for land reclamation and demining, and occupied territories, the minister added.
"I'm convinced that the restoration of the agricultural sector must begin today," Koval said. "A key priority is helping farmers in front-line territories."
The agricultural sector plays a vital role in Ukraine's economy, comprising approximately 20% of the country's GDP, Koval said earlier.
After Russia's full-scale invasion broke out in 2022, Ukraine's previously dominant share of non-agricultural exports declined significantly.
According to a study by the German-Ukrainian Agricultural Policy Dialogue project, after Russia’s full-scale invasion began, Ukraine’s non-agricultural exports have declined significantly, while agricultural food exports have remained relatively stable, providing vital support to the Ukrainian economy.
Koval previously said that farmers, together with agro-processors, produce about 60% of export revenues, playing a key role in the Ukrainian economy amid the full-scale war.
Throughout the full-scale war, Moscow has attempted to obstruct Ukraine's agricultural exports by blockading the Black Sea and trying to replace Ukrainian products in global markets with its own, including grain looted from occupied territories.
Despite these challenges, Ukraine reopened a maritime trade corridor in 2023, enabling the revival of its agricultural exports. In 2024, Ukraine's agricultural exports reached $24.5 billion, approaching pre-war levels and achieving the second-highest record after 2021's $27.7 billion. Last year, agricultural exports accounted for 59% of the country's total exports.
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