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.
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.
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.
Photo for illustrative purposes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the Ukrainian Parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine on Dec. 28, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, approved the appointment of eight more ministers amid a major government reshuffle on Sept. 5.
The new personnel changes follow the resignation of Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and the appointment of his successor, Kuleba's deputy Andrii Sybiha.
Olha Stefanishynawasre-appointed as the deputy prime minister responsible for European integration and was also appointed justice minister.
Svitlana Hrynchuk was approved as ecology minister, replacing Ruslan Strilets.
Matviy Bidnyi, who has been acting sports and youth minister, was officially appointed to the job.
Mykola Tochytskyi, a long-serving diplomat and deputy head of the Presidential Office, was appointed as culture and information policy minister.
"At this stage, we need to strengthen the fight against disinformation, and we need a candidate with international experience for this task," David Arakhamia, head of President Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People faction in parliament, said on Sept. 4.
Deputy Defense Minister Natalia Kalmykova became minister of veterans' affairs, and Herman Smetanin, head of the state-owned defense company Ukroboronprom, replaced Alexander Kamyshin as strategic industries minister.
Vitaliy Koval, who had spentone year as head of the State Property Fund, was approved for the position of agriculture minister.
The lawmakers also approved the candidacy of Oleksii Kuleba, a former deputy head of the Presidential Office, as deputy prime minister for the restoration of Ukraine and minister for the development of communities and territories.
The parliament also approved the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk with 255 votes. She is moving to the President’s Office, where she will be deputy head of the office.
Kateryna Denisova works as a News Editor at the Kyiv Independent. She previously worked as a news editor at the NV media outlet for four years, covering mainly Ukrainian and international politics. Kateryna holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. She also was a fellow at journalism schools in the Czech Republic and Germany.
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