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.
A Ukrainian doctor (C) stands amid the rubble of the destroyed building of the Okhmatdyt children's hospital after a Russian missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 8, 2024. (Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainians have raised Hr 300 million (around $7 million) to rebuild the Okhmatdyt children's hospital hit by a Russian missile on July 8, the fundraising platform United24 reported on July 10.
The Okhmatdyt hospital, Ukraine's largest children's medical center, was struck with Kh-101 cruise missile during a Russian mass aerial attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.
The attack against the medical facility killed two people, including a doctor, and wounded 32 others. The strike also destroyed one building and damaged four others in the hospital.
United24 and Monobank, Ukraine's largest mobile-only bank, launched a fundraising campaign for Hr 100 million (nearly $2.5 million). Within 22 hours, Ukrainians had collected Hr 250 million (nearly $6 million).
The collection amount reached 300 million (around $7 million) at around 10 a.m. local time on July 10, according to United24. The funds were raised within 41 hours.
Some 320,000 Ukrainians from 55 countries joined the fundraising campaign, Oleh Horokhovskyi, Monobank's co-founder and CEO, said.
The largest one-time donation was worth Hr 20 million (nearly $500,000), he added.
In total, Russia's missile attack on the capital on July 8 killed 33 and injured 121 others.
Search and rescue operations related to this attack concluded on July 10. In total, emergency workers rescued 11 people in the aftermath of the attack.
Kateryna Hodunova is a News Editor at the Kyiv Independent. She previously worked as a sports journalist in several Ukrainian outlets and was the deputy chief editor at Suspilne Sport. Kateryna covered the 2022 Olympics in Beijing and was included in the Special Mentions list at the AIPS Sport Media Awards. She holds a bachelor's degree in political journalism from Taras Shevchenko University and a master's degree in political science from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
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