Poland

The Verkhovna Rada supported in the first reading a bill that will allow displaced persons to receive compensation for destroyed property located in the occupied territory.

The United Kingdom and Latvia have announced a tender for the purchase of drones from Western manufacturers for supply to Ukraine as part of the coalition to create the capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles.

43% of Ukrainians believe that the situation with democracy has worsened during the presidency of Vladimir Zelensky. In addition, 49% of respondents believe that the state of the economy has also worsened.

President Biden is expected to issue a new executive order allowing the rapid deportation of migrants entering the United States illegally without considering their asylum requests once the daily threshold aimed at restricting the arrival of migrants at the U. S.-Mexico border is reached.

The Verkhovna Rada supported in the first reading a bill that provides for a gradual increase in the excise tax on fuel, bringing the rate to 359 euros per 1,000 liters for gasoline, 330 euros for diesel fuel and 70 euros for gas until 2028.

In southern Germany, the death toll from large-scale flooding rose to five after rescuers found the body of a woman in a flooded car.

Criminal proceedings have been initiated on the fact of a conflict between a girl and two men in the Obolonsky District of the capital.

NATO is developing several "land corridors" for the transfer of American troops and armored vehicles to the front line in the event of a major European ground war with russia.

The Ukrainian delegation presented President Zelensky's formula for peace, in particular paragraph 2 on food security, and demonstrated Ukraine's agricultural capabilities to the Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community.

Georgia's ruling party plans to introduce bills restricting LGBT rights, including banning same-sex marriage, adoption of children by non-heterosexual couples, sex reassignment surgery, and "LGBT propaganda" in education and the media.

As noted in the WSJ article, despite Western sanctions, Russia continues to import important foreign components for its weapons used against Ukraine.

Emergency power outages were introduced in many regions of Ukraine.

The Verkhovna Rada supported in the first reading the bill on raising excise taxes on tobacco products, while the excise tax on cigarettes is tied to the euro exchange rate and should increase by 23% in 2025, then by 5% annually in 2026-2028, in order to reach the EU minimum level by 2028.

The Ukrainian military repelled numerous enemy attacks on several fronts, and the highest intensity of enemy attacks was observed in the Pokrovsky direction.

Bank of America believes that the growth of the semiconductor market will continue until mid-2026. Analysts also predict that chip stocks will not reach their peak until then, due to the development of artificial intelligence.

More than 11 thousand people were evacuated from the frontline cities of the Kharkiv region and temporarily placed in dormitories, another 10 thousand places were reserved so that evacuees could be accommodated.

Four people were injured as a result of Russian shelling of the village of Belozerka in the Kherson region.

The enemy continues to destroy civilian infrastructure in the Kharkiv region, firing 30 guided aerial bombs on the area during the day.

The Verkhovna Rada has changed the composition of the temporary special commission for the construction of fortifications and the purchase of unmanned aerial vehicles.

The new draft law officially establishes the status of English as one of the languages of international communication in Ukraine and defines positions where candidates are required to speak English. In addition, the document regulates the specifics of the use of English in the work of government agencies.

In the Kiev region, 130 children were killed or wounded as a result of Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine.

In the Kherson region, Russian troops killed an elderly woman in the village of Veletenskoye and shelled the village of Belozerka, wounding two women and damaging buildings and a car.

С 15 мая более 1000 российских пользователей получили свой отзыв на международные сервисы Microsoft, такие как Visio Online, Project Online и Power BI.

Protesters at the Rava-Rus'ka-Hrebenne checkpoint block the exit of trucks from Ukraine, restricting the entry of trucks and other vehicles.

With his message in social networks, Hetmantsev can put pressure on the court and disclose the secret of the investigation, the lawyer believes.

the Russians carried out 6 strikes on the Sumy region, while 26 explosions were recorded, including drone strikes and artillery attacks on several settlements.

The deficit in Ukraine's energy system is slightly larger than the day before, due to increased consumption of air conditioners, reduced solar energy generation and electricity imports from Europe.

The United Nations is expected to be represented at the peace summit in Ukraine, which will be held on June 15-16 in Switzerland.

Over the past 4 days, at least 9 representatives of the Russian military forces were injured; 8 pieces of equipment of the Russian Defense Ministry were damaged in the Kursk and Belgorod regions.

The Ministry of Defense stated that currently there are no grounds for extending the period for updating military ID cards, since each person liable for military service can update their data through the Reserve+ application, but the period can be extended in case of force majeure.