Olga Rozgon
UNESCO has approved an emergency assistance program to monitor and address the environmental damage caused by Russia's destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine, mobilizing more than $66 million to restore Ukraine's cultural heritage, education and science affected by Russian aggression.
Kyrgyz citizens, including underage children, are being recruited through social networks and dating sites to commit terrorist acts in Russia, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Labor reports.
The Kia EV9 electric crossover has been named the World's Best Car of 2024 at the World Car Awards announced at the New York International Auto Show.
Ukrainian partisans have recorded the arrival of a new batch of Russian military equipment at the Ostryakovo railway station in occupied Crimea, and some of the equipment may be inoperable.
Officials of a state forestry enterprise organized the illegal felling of 185 oak trees over 100 years old on the territory of the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, causing damage worth over UAH 59 million.
Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 537 children have been killed and more than 1,269 injured, with one child killed and four injured in the last day as a result of Russian shelling.
Russia is planning to create a "Dnipro River Flotilla" and a brigade of boats to protect the waterways and islands separating Russian-occupied territories from Ukrainian-controlled Kherson, but it is likely to be vulnerable to Ukrainian drones.
Two Russian soldiers are sentenced to life imprisonment for the shooting of four civilians in Chernihiv region.
Berlin plans to build 16 new centers for refugees with containerized housing for more than 6,000 people and expand the former Tegel Airport center by 1,000 beds.
Two contractors misappropriated UAH 3. 7 million allocated for the restoration of energy infrastructure in Odesa region damaged by enemy shelling by forging documents on transportation costs.
A 60-year-old resident of Zakarpattia was detained for trying to smuggle a 30-year-old Lviv resident of military age across the Ukrainian-Slovak border for $2,000.
A truck fire in Boyarka, Kyiv region, killed the driver and damaged two other vehicles.
NATO should create more strategic difficulties for Russia to put an end to its irresponsible actions and aggression against Ukraine, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Bilstrom said.
Russian propaganda channels are spreading fake information about the alleged deportation of more than 813,000 Ukrainians from the EU due to mass protests, but this claim is not true, and the screenshot used to confirm it is fabricated.
Latvia is planning to auction off a land plot in Riga and the Moscow House located on it, which previously belonged to the government of the Russian capital, and use the proceeds to support Ukraine.
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces in Zaporizhzhia sector discover and destroy a Russian BUK SAM using HIMARS.
Additional fortifications are being built on the border with Belarus in the Zhytomyr region to strengthen the defense system with anti-tank ditches, minefields, and concrete structures.
The High Court in London has decided to postpone the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States until the appeal is completed.
Law enforcers shut down an international drug supply channel to Europe, detaining a group of seven criminals in Kyiv and Zaporizzhia who were smuggling methadone from Ukraine to the EU.
Russians are conducting an information operation in the occupied territories to discredit the Ukrainian underground, spreading fake correspondence about recruiting teenagers for terrorist attacks.
In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, the occupiers began checking Tajik citizens, sending additional FSB groups to conduct "preventive conversations" because of fears of possible unrest after the mass shootings of Russians in Moscow.
Japan has relaxed its arms export rules to allow the sale of next-generation fighter jets developed jointly with the UK and Italy, removing a major obstacle to the trilateral project.
The head of the Ovidiopol freelance military medical commission was caught selling fake certificates with fictitious diseases, which helped people illegally cross the border of Ukraine for money.
High water levels on the rivers of Chernihiv Oblast could cause flooding of floodplains and roads, disrupting transportation links to some villages.
Russia does not have enough soldiers to form new military districts because its troops are involved in the war in Ukraine.
Turkish President Erdogan plans to visit Washington in early May to meet with US President Biden to discuss bilateral relations, the Russian-Ukrainian war, and the situation in Gaza.
A new batch of Russian soldiers and equipment from the Komi Republic and Yakutia arrived in occupied Dzhankoy, turning it into a logistics center for Russian troops in the Kherson direction.
Three Russian nationals, two of whom have Russian citizenship, were arrested as suspects in the Crocus City Hall attack for assisting the attackers.
Netanyahu canceled the visit of the Israeli delegation to the United States after the UN approved a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda appoints Laurinas Kasciunas as the new Minister of National Defense.