Lilia Podolyak
China is pushing ahead with plans to build floating nuclear reactors that could power military installations in the disputed South China Sea, raising concerns from the United States about undermining regional security and stability.
Estonian MP Kristo Ann Vaga cycled 1,700 kilometers from Tallinn to Kyiv, raising €30,000 for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to purchase cars and drones.
The NBU introduced the largest package of currency restrictions since the beginning of the full-scale war, allowing businesses to enter new markets, repatriate dividends, transfer funds abroad under leasing/rental agreements, repay foreign loans and interest on them, and ease restrictions on representative offices, which aims to improve the business environment, support economic recovery and facilitate new investments.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine recommends that Ukrainian citizens avoid visiting crowded places and participating in protests in Tbilisi due to the ongoing mass demonstrations in the city.
Ukraine has won the ІВ division of the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship and will be promoted to the IA division for the first time in 7 years.
Every year, Christians await the symbolic descent of the Holy Fire, a ceremony. UNN has collected interesting information about this sacrament, which traditionally takes place on the last Saturday before Easter.
Olena Sosedka, co-founder of the Dobrodiy Charity Exchange, received the Cross of Honor from the Defense Ministry for helping the army.
As a result of the recent Russian attacks on Odesa from April 29 to May 1 16 people are still in hospital, 5 of them in serious condition, including a 4-year-old girl.
In April, the DobroDiy Charity Exchange helped 15 seriously ill children, including 11-year-old Yulia, who had undergone a complex spinal surgery.
According to the deputy head of the Main Military Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Russia could invade the Baltic states in 7 days, while NATO's response would take 10 days, putting the Baltic states at risk if Ukraine's allies do not increase defense production to help Kyiv.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said that Ukraine has the right to strike targets in Russia with weapons supplied by the UK because Russia is attacking Ukrainian territory.
Over the past day, 134 combat engagements took place in various parts of the frontline, and the enemy launched numerous missile, air and artillery strikes at Ukrainian positions and localities.
Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops have lost approximately 472,140 personnel and 7,354 tanks.
Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian aviation conducted 12 strikes against Russian troops, hitting the places of concentration of personnel and anti-aircraft missile systems.
Russian occupants conducted 349 attacks on 8 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region, including air strikes, drone attacks, MLRS and artillery shelling, which destroyed residential buildings, but no civilian casualties were recorded.
The United States and Japan will jointly develop a new missile defense system worth about $3 billion to intercept hypersonic weapons by 2030.
The United States plans to impose new sanctions on organizations that facilitate arms and oil trade between Russia and North Korea by the end of the month, in coordination with allies such as the EU, the UK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea.
The two galaxies NGC 3314 in the Hubble image appear to be intersecting, but in fact they are separated by tens of millions of light years and moving in different directions.
Russia may be preparing an offensive against the Kharkiv and Sumy regions of Ukraine in late May or early June with up to 70,000 troops.
29 people have been killed and 60 are still missing following devastating floods caused by storms in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, forcing more than 10,000 people to evacuate and leaving 300,000 without power.
Ukraine has strengthened its defensive positions on the battlefield thanks to U. S. military assistance.
Russian troops entered the US military base in Niger after the Nigerian junta expelled US troops from the country.
The United Nations accuses Russia of deliberately bombing a hospital in opposition-controlled northern Syria in 2019, killing relatives of a Syrian who filed a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee.
NASA has successfully deployed an 80-square-meter solar sail system in space using RocketLab's Electron rocket, which could be seen from Earth as brightly as the star Sirius.
The Italian government is seeking compensation from the EU for the losses suffered by Italian firms due to Russian sanctions, including the idea of allowing companies whose assets have been seized by Moscow to apply for frozen European assets belonging to Russian business entities.
The massive flowering of the narrow-leaved daffodil has begun in the Narcissus Valley, a unique protected area near Khust in Zakarpattia, Ukraine, and will continue until the end of the week.
Two people, including a 12-year-old child, were killed and two others injured as a result of a Russian Grad rocket attack on the village of Memryka in Donetsk region.
Ukraine's loss of the Chasiv Yar high-altitude fortification is only a matter of time, opening the way for Russia to capture the last major cities in Donetsk region, says the deputy head of Ukraine's military intelligence.
TikTok briefly became available again in Russia, but then was partially blocked again, and users could not post videos or go live.
A sinkhole has formed on General Naumov Street in Kyiv, partially obstructing traffic, and the patrol police have notified the relevant services to ensure road safety.