EU ministers approve providing $5 billion loan to Ukraine.

Dombrovskis reminded that the EU’s Ukraine Support Loan is structured so that Ukraine only repays if Russia pays Ukraine reparations. “(This), of course, invites a question: what happens if Russia does not pay reparations?” he said.

The site was used to bury residents who died during the Russian siege of the city in 2022, according to Ukraine’s Center for the Study of Occupation.

"We are more concerned that money is increasing more rapidly than (weapons) production. It creates some kind of inflationary pressure," EU's Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius explained.

The SBU said it detained the suspect while he was planting the explosives.

"Where we (Europeans) have a problem, which is Ukraine, we are alone," Kaja Kallas said.

"The beaches will now become minefields," Vladyslav Voloshyn, spokesperson for Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces, told the Kyiv Independent.

"Our Ukrainian friends need to understand that repeatedly portraying the Baltic states as Russia's possible next victim... does not create or reinforce a narrative that would help Ukraine itself or others in pushing back against Russian war-driven imperialism," Marko Mihkelson, chairman of the Estonian parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Kyiv Independent.

"Ukraine has completed repair work on the section of the Druzhba oil pipeline that was damaged by a Russian strike," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

On April 21, the Kyiv Independent launches a new merchandise collection, "No News is Bad News," dedicated to protecting journalists covering Russia’s war against Ukraine. th

According to the Transport Ministry, the new bridge for cars and trucks will be the first of its kind linking Russia and North Korea by land.

Four draft officers were detained in Odesa after allegedly abducting a man, beating him, and demanding $30,000, as military authorities suspended two recruitment office chiefs.