At the intersection of Vasylkivska and Sumska streets in Kyiv, traffic is hampered in the direction of Vasylkivska Square due to an accident.
Five people were killed in a Russian missile attack on Odesa, leading to a day of mourning in Odesa region.
President Zelenskyy congratulated Ukrainian border guards on their professional holiday, praising them for protecting the state and the people along with other security agencies and expressing confidence that they will soon be working peacefully on all sovereign borders.
Russians shelled several settlements in Sumy region with mortars, MLRS, artillery and UAVs, causing 13 explosions.
U. S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war largely depends on Russia's readiness to negotiate, and as soon as Russia demonstrates a sincere desire to negotiate, the United States and Ukraine will be there.
A 42-year-old man was seriously injured and hospitalized after Russian forces shelled Kharkiv, damaging residential buildings, and about 20 settlements in the region were shelled with aircraft, artillery and mortars, damaging homes and injuring civilians.
Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit France, Serbia, and Hungary in May, and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are expected to be the main topics of discussion during his state visit to France on May 6-7.
U. S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken criticized China for supplying the Russian defense industry, saying it undermines China's efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine and improve Sino-European relations.
The Council of the European Union has approved a mandate for negotiations with Ukraine on the extension of the Agreement on the Liberalization of Freight Transport, which will allow Ukraine to continue freight transportation without permits until at least June 2025.
Telegram temporarily disabled official Ukrainian government bots due to a "false positive", but later restored them without providing further details.
Ukraine and NATO have reached the highest level of relations since Ukraine's independence, but not the highest possible level, as President Zelenskyy and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg discussed during Stoltenberg's visit to Ukraine.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited Kyiv and met with President Zelenskyy, assuring him that support for Ukraine would grow and reaffirming NATO's commitment to putting Ukraine on an irreversible path to membership.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made an unannounced visit to Kyiv and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The G7 energy ministers are discussing setting a common target date of 2035 for the closure of coal-fired power plants, a significant step toward the phase-out of fossil fuels.
A Czech police investigation confirmed that the 2014 Vrbetice military depot bombings were organized by agents of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency, the same ones behind the Salisbury assassination attempt in the UK, but the case was shelved because the suspects cannot be prosecuted while on Russian territory.
A bus crash on the outskirts of Mexico City killed 18 people and injured 32 others when it overturned on a highway en route from Guanajuato to Chalma.
Tesla has overcome key obstacles to the introduction of its fully autonomous driving system in China by partnering with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions, and by meeting data security requirements following an unannounced visit by Elon Musk.
The Ukrainian government has allocated UAH 60. 5 billion for pension payments, UAH 5.3 billion for housing subsidies and benefits, and UAH 2,655.8 million for insurance payments, including UAH 1,491.7 million for sick leave payments for April 2024.
Ukraine's power system remains in short supply during certain hours due to damage from Russian missile strikes.
Polish protesters unblocked the border with Ukraine after the talks, and the next meeting of the Ukrainian and Polish agriculture ministers is scheduled for May 7.
A train traveling from Firmini to Lyon collided with rocks due to a slope subsidence caused by heavy rains, evacuating about 200 passengers and leaving two people with minor injuries.
Over the weekend, Baltic ministers warned of the risk of an air disaster due to GPS jamming blamed on Russia, after two Finnish flights were forced to turn around midway due to interference with navigation signals.
Truck traffic has resumed at the Rava-Ruska-Hrebenne checkpoint on the Polish-Ukrainian border, with the exception of trucks transporting grain crops, which are banned from entering Poland.
Due to grid restrictions and hostile attacks on energy facilities in eastern Ukraine, power outages occurred in Kharkiv region and Kryvyi Rih, while Ukraine provided emergency assistance by transferring excess electricity to the Polish grid.
Two children born in 2021 and 2018 were hospitalized due to carbon monoxide poisoning in their apartment in Uzhhorod, probably due to clogged ventilation.
China's intelligence chief promises a "powerful offensive" to combat espionage and eliminate traitors amid a barrage of espionage accusations from Europe and the United States.
The official Ukrainian bots of the special services and the Ministry of Digital Transformation, previously blocked on Telegram, have resumed their work to help fight Russian aggression.
Over the past day, three civilians were wounded in seven localities in Donetsk region as a result of Russian shelling, and 15 civilian objects were damaged, including 10 residential buildings and educational institutions.
Harvey Weinstein, the former movie mogul, was hospitalized at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan for a series of tests after returning to New York following an appeals court ruling that overturned his 2020 rape conviction.
Russian troops shelled the border of Chernihiv region 11 times with various types of weapons, causing 59 explosions, but no casualties were reported.
