Ukraine

The United States is preparing a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $400 million.

The inauguration of the newly elected president of Russia will take place on May 7, followed by the appointment of the prime minister on May 8.

Russia has introduced a bill to invalidate the 1954 transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in an attempt to legitimize its illegal occupation, but Ukraine has condemned it as a desperate propaganda move that will not change the internationally recognized reality that Crimea is Ukraine.

Two men from Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions were rescued by border guards in Zakarpattia after they got lost while trying to illegally cross the border with Romania through the mountains.

The U. S. Treasury Department demands that Austrian bank Raiffeisen Bank International leave the russian market. The bank is trying to stall for time, hoping to dispose of its assets profitably.

Prices for essential goods are rising, and salaries for local residents of the russian-occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region are delayed for up to two months due to unemployment.

Ukraine ranks first among the countries with the highest proportion of people with depression.

Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 17 of 22 Russian kamikaze drones during a night attack on March 12. Some of the drones were destroyed by soldiers of the South Air Command.

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has not received any information from the Polish side that protesters in Poland are restricting or blocking bus traffic, but cannot rule out that buses may be hampered by the blockade.

Without additional military assistance from the United States, Ukraine will face new challenges on the battlefield and will gradually lose more and more territory to Russia, according to senior U. S. intelligence officials.

Polish farmers continue to block truck traffic at 5 checkpoints, not allowing any truck to go to Poland in Shehyny, Yahodyna, Uhryniv and Ustyluh. Due to the blockade, 1500 trucks are waiting in line.

In Kyiv, a criminal organization engaged in information sabotage in favor of the FSB was neutralized. More than 15 members, including the rector of the Kyiv church of the UOC (MP), were detained for spreading pro-Kremlin narratives, inciting religious hatred and justifying Russia's war against Ukraine.

Yusov commented on the nighttime explosions in Russia, indicating that such actions are gaining momentum and will continue.

The Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate is currently checking information about the alleged downing of a russian Su-27 fighter jet over the Belgorod region.

Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, noted that Russian special services have repeatedly resorted to provocations and terrorist attacks against their own civilian population, suggesting that the threat of terrorist attacks in Moscow could be a scenario orchestrated by the Kremlin itself.

According to the Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine, Ihor Kuzin, despite not reaching the WHO-recommended vaccination rate, COVID-19 is becoming a seasonal disease in Ukraine, with annual outbreaks expected in the fall and winter.

GUR representative Yusov commented on the breakthrough of Russian volunteers in Russia, pointing out that a joint operation is underway in several areas, and it is quite successful.

The Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany emphasized that TAURUS long-range cruise missiles can help the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroy russian munitions depots and supply routes, which is crucial for Ukraine's victory in the war.

In Belarus, exercises under the guidance of Russian instructors, including mercenaries from the Wagner PMC, have begun to test the combat readiness of military units, but this is not supported by the Belarusian military.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Swiss Ambassador Christina Marti Lang and protested to her over the decision of the Swiss parliament on the mechanism of confiscation of Russian assets.

EU leaders will support a change in the European Investment Bank's lending policy to allow financing of defense projects to boost European defense production after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Most Ukrainians favor the complete elimination of the russian language from official communication after a full-scale russian invasion in February 2022.

Ukraine needs Soviet-style ammunition, which can be purchased more cheaply from Balkan countries that have stockpiles, but they refuse to supply directly, so the US and EU can help Ukraine buy it from them.

The National Agency for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes receives almost USD 1 million of seized funds of the former head of the High Commission in Chernihiv region.

European Union leaders are ready to impose significant new sanctions on Iran amid reports that Tehran has provided ballistic missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine.

Tax officials, like termites, are gnawing holes in the Ukrainian economy, business, and the pockets of ordinary Ukrainians, says entrepreneur and volunteer Yana Matviychuk.

The Security Service blocked new schemes to evade mobilization and illegally travel abroad by men of military age, detaining three officials of medical institutions, a lawyer and others involved in the sale of forged documents and certificates. The cost of forgery was up to USD 16 thousand.

Ukraine has a "living" plan for a just peace, which envisages holding an inaugural peace summit with leaders of civilized states in Switzerland this spring to develop decisive steps to end the war with Russia.

Since the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion, 1,000 air raid alarms have been sounded in Kyiv, totaling 1,165 hours and 26 minutes of continuous alarms.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has once again explicitly refused to supply Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles.