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.
The White House is seen in Washington, DC on March 09, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
U.S. Secret Service officers opened fire on an armed man near the White House in Washington on March 9, the Secret Service reported.
At the time of the incident, U.S. President Donald Trump was at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, according to CBS News.
Local police shared they received information about a "suicidal individual" possibly traveling from Indiana, in the northeast of the country.
The Secret Service members spotted a man and his car not far from the White House around midnight. As the officers approached, he brandished a firearm. An "armed confrontation" followed, with the suspect being shot by Secret Service.
He was taken to a local hospital and his condition is unknown. No casualties among the Secret Service employees were reported.
Trump was previously targeted in an assassination attempt on July 13 during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Later in the fall, the U.S. Secret Service opened fire after seeing an armed individual at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, while Trump was playing golf. Trump was unharmed, and the FBI launched the investigation into the incident as another assassination attempt against him.
Kateryna Denisova
