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During the meeting, Zelensky and Berbok separately discussed Ukraine's movement towards EU membership and the organization of the International Conference on the restoration of Ukraine (URC 2024), which will be held in Berlin in June, and coordinated steps to fill it with specific projects.

Deliveries of IRIS-t, Skynex, and Gepard air defense systems from Germany to Ukraine continue, and Germany is working with other countries to ensure that they also transfer their air defense systems to Ukraine.

More than 1 million Ukrainians have successfully logged in and updated their military data using the Reserve+ Program, and users from abroad, including Poland, Germany and Canada, are among the leading markets.

Western partners are providing technical assistance, equipment components, and spare parts from decommissioned power plants to help Ukraine repair and rebuild the electricity sector that has been affected by Russian attacks.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock arrives in Kyiv on an unannounced visit to assure Ukraine of Germany's continued support despite the escalation of hostilities and to prepare for the Berlin conference on Ukraine's recovery.

Germany agrees to support a U. S. plan to use frozen Russian assets, mostly in Europe, to provide $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.

Ten people were injured, four of them seriously, when lightning struck a group on the banks of the Elbe River in Dresden, Germany, during a severe thunderstorm, with two men suffering cardiac arrest.

NATO partners support Germany's initiative to provide Ukraine with air defense systems through financial and technical contributions.

The G7 allies are set on a US plan to freeze Russian assets for Ukraine even before a potential Trump presidency, the FT reports.

Almost 300 foreign-made microelectronics components were found in North Korean missiles by KFI specialists, said Oleksandr Ruvin.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas claims that the training of NATO soldiers in Ukraine will not automatically escalate the war with Russia and will not trigger Article 5 of the NATO Mutual Defense Treaty.

The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo prevented a coup attempt by arresting those responsible for the failed attempt to overthrow President Felix Tshisekedi.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius demands that his government provide an additional €3. 8 billion in military aid to Ukraine in the current fiscal year, in addition to the €7.1 billion already provided.

On May 18, Ukraine commemorates the victims of the genocide of Crimean Tatars through forced deportation in 1944, when up to 425,000 people were deported and up to 42% of them died.

Lithuania will provide Ukraine with 6 Amber-1800 radars to strengthen its air defense as part of Germany's initiative to strengthen Ukraine's air defense.

On the 80th anniversary of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people, Ukraine honored its victims by raising the Crimean Tatar flag with a mourning ribbon on the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, attended by government officials and Crimean Tatar leaders who condemned the ongoing repression and forced deportation of Crimean Tatars by Russia.

The chairmen of the foreign affairs committees of the US, EU, Ukraine and other countries have condemned Georgia's controversial "foreign agents" law, saying it undermines democracy and contradicts Georgia's goal of Western integration.

An armed man is shot dead by French police after attempting to set fire to a synagogue in Rouen.

A 48-year-old Ukrainian man was brutally murdered, his body dismembered and burned in an outbuilding of an agricultural enterprise in the Polish town of Rokiciny, and three suspects were arrested.

Russia has declared the British Defense Attaché in Moscow "persona non grata" in response to the UK's expulsion of the Russian Defense Attaché from London.

Head coach of the national team of Ukraine Serhiy Rebrov named the preliminary application of the national football team of Ukraine for the European Championship - 2024.

A monument to the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people through mass deportation in 1944 will be unveiled in Ukraine in the first half of this year.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 2652 companies have been founded by foreigners, with the most active investors being citizens of Turkey, Uzbekistan, Poland, and the United States.

Switzerland is seeking to relax its arms export rules to allow exceptions in the interest of foreign policy or national security, but maintains a ban on arms sales to Ukraine.

Today, on the third Thursday of May, all Ukrainians, representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora abroad, and people who honor our national and cultural traditions join the celebration of World Vyshyvanka Day, which was launched in 2006 by a group of students from Chernivtsi National University.

France and the Netherlands propose that the EU impose sanctions on any financial institution worldwide that helps the Russian military obtain prohibited goods or dual-use technology.

Diplomats are trying to secure the participation of the Global South in the Peace Summit for Ukraine by focusing on a narrow set of goals. More than 160 countries have been invited to the Summit, which will take place on June 15-16.

Hungary opposes the EU's new package of sanctions on Russian gas, vowing to block any measures that could raise energy prices in Europe.

Russia has openly launched a campaign of terror against Western countries aimed at undermining unity through subversion, support for radical movements, and attempts to influence political decisions.

Russians fired 13 times at 8 settlements in Sumy region, recording 78 explosions from MLRS, cannon artillery and mortars.