Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov rejected the idea of a 30-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, claiming in an interview with ABC News on May 10 that it would be "an advantage" for Ukraine.
"Our involvement in the war was justifiable, and this belongs to our sovereign rights," North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un said. "I regard this as part of the sacred mission we must execute for our brothers and comrades-in-arms."
"We have a plan B and a plan C. But our focus is plan A, the essence of which is to get everyone's support" for Ukraine's accession, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.
"(T)he presence at the Victory Parade of a country that bombs cities, hospitals, and daycares, and which has caused the deaths and injuries of over a million people over three years, is a shame," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
"According to the participants of the performances, their goal is to remind the civilized world of the barbaric actions of Moscow, which for many years and decades has systematically violated international law," a source in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR) told the Kyiv Independent.
"I have great hope that an agreement for a ceasefire in Ukraine will be reached this weekend," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on May 9, shortly before traveling to Kyiv alongside the leaders of France, Poland, and the U.K.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will arrive in Kyiv early on May 10.
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.
A view on the South Nuclear Power Plant in Yuzhnoukrainsk, Ukraine, on August 7, 2023. (Serhii Korovayny/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Ukraine's state nuclear energy agency Energoatom on Sept. 4 denied reports of an accident at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant in Mykolaiv Oblast, but said "issues" had been discovered at one of its power units.
In a post on Telegram, Energoatom added that the operating capacity of the unit in question had been reduced, and the issue was caused by Russian attacks on the wider energy infrastructure network which caused "significant fluctuations in the parameters of the network."
The denial came after Oleksandr Kharchenko, the managing director of the Energy Industry Research Center, said in a post on Facebook there had been an accident at the plant, citing "two independent sources."
Energoatom said the denial was made in order to "stop the spread of yet more unreliable information."
This is not the first time the plant has been at the center of conflicting reports.
An incident damaged energy equipment earlier this year, lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak said on July 25, citing a response to an official request for information he had sent to the authorities after Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko denied earlier reports.
Reports emerged on July 18 that two transformers had burned down days earlier, leading to one of the reactors being disconnected from the energy network.
The country is preparing to resume the construction of the previously abandoned Chyhyryn plant in Cherkasy Oblast, Energoatom said on Aug. 27.
"The Energoatom team is actively working to find new construction sites. The most promising of them is Chyhyryn, near the town of Orbita in Cherkasy Oblast," said Energoatom.
According to Energoatom, the plant will be equipped with AP1000 reactors built by U.S. company Westinghouse.
The members of the Chyhyryn City Council voted to grant Energoatom permission to resume construction of the plant. "The first steps have been taken," said Energoatom.
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Andrea Januta
