Ukraine
On May 8, Lviv honored the memory of those who died in World War II at the site of the Stalag-328 concentration camp for prisoners of war, marking the first time in Ukraine that the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II was celebrated.
EU ambassadors agree on Ukraine's reform plan to receive EU financial assistance until 2027 under the Ukraine Facility.
In Kirovohrad region, experts inspected about 60 yards and received the same number of complaints from residents after the Russian missile attack on the community of Svitlovodsk.
EU ambassadors approve €30 million in non-lethal military aid to Georgia from the European Peace Fund.
Like Hitler's Nazism, Putin's Nazism wants its borders to end nowhere, seeking to dominate and subjugate the world through violence and propaganda. According to Zelenskyy, he will be stopped by the courage and determination of those who stand up to evil and defend life.
The Council called for the recognition of the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars as genocide, increased support for Ukraine against Russian aggression, a response to human rights violations in occupied Crimea, and the establishment of a tribunal on Russian aggression against Ukraine, and demanded that Russia lift restrictions on Crimean Tatar institutions.
The Verkhovna Rada passed a law allowing for the early release of prisoners for military service during mobilization or martial law, with the exception of those convicted of corruption, premeditated murder, crimes against national security, or sexual violence.
Favorable weather allows for active solar power generation, but in some regions, such as Kharkiv, hourly restrictions on electricity supply to industry may be imposed due to grid problems caused by Russian missile attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
Up to 50,000 households were left without electricity due to the shelling, but were quickly reconnected, although evening power outages for industrial consumers are possible due to limited capacity.
The NATO Summit will be held in Washington, DC on July 9-11, 2024. The celebration of NATO's 75th anniversary is expected to take place on July 9 in the afternoon.
The head of Kirovohrad RSA, Andriy Raykovych, said that specialists are inspecting the damage caused by enemy rocket fire in the Oleksandriya district, power engineers will repair the damaged lines, and calls for economical electricity consumption due to the difficult situation in the Ukrainian power grid.
According to British intelligence, Russia has modified its X-101 air-launched cruise missile, equipping it with a second warhead, which increased its lethality but halved its range.
Due to Russia's massive missile strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, electricity consumption restrictions for industrial consumers may be imposed from 18:00 to 23:00, while household consumers may face blackouts only in Kharkiv region.
Cooperation between business and the state is a lightweight option for putting the economy on a war footing, where business works to win, says WhiteBIT CEO Volodymyr Nosov.
The number of victims of the Russian rocket attack on Odesa on April 29 increased to 7 after another man who was wounded in the attack died in hospital.
The Parliament plans to consider a draft law to increase the salaries of civil servants of certain courts by applying appropriate regional coefficients based on the population of the locality where the court is located.
The Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise should be involved in the formation of the Register of Equipment for the Production of Tobacco Products in order to effectively combat the illegal tobacco market.
The speaker of the Ukrainian parliament has signed a decree allowing journalists to cover the activities of the parliament directly in its premises during martial law.
On the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism on May 8, 2024, Ukrposhta issued a postage stamp "Russian Navy - to the bottom!" or "Ship for 3". The stamp was dedicated to the destroyed ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
During the massive attack, Russia used a wide range of weapons against Ukraine, including cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles such as Kinzhal, Iskander-M, Kalibr, X-101, X-555, Shahid drones, and others.
A 41-year-old Russian soldier deserted from the front in Ukraine and was detained in Poland after illegally crossing the Belarusian border to try to get to Europe.
Germany is sending two warships to the Indo-Pacific region amid rising tensions between China and Taiwan over freedom of navigation and trade routes.
Due to the massive attack of Russian missiles and drones on energy facilities in several regions, power outages are possible across the country from 18:00 to 23:00.
Ukraine has lost more than 8 GW of energy capacity due to systematic Russian attacks on energy infrastructure since March.
russia attacks Ukrainian gas storage facilities to demonstrate the vulnerability of the Ukrainian gas transportation system as gas transit from Russia comes to an end.
On May 7, passenger and vehicle traffic on Ukraine's western border increased compared to the previous day: 66,000 people and 15,000 vehicles crossed the borders with the EU and Moldova, with 38,000 people leaving Ukraine and 28,000 entering.
Russian troops massively attacked the energy infrastructure in Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava regions and Kryvyi Rih, damaging power generation and transmission facilities.
Since the beginning of 2024, Euroclear, the European depository, has received €1. 6 billion in interest income from more than €200 billion of frozen Russian assets.
The WOG filling station network is expanding the availability of the popular ZAVZHDYKAVA project. Decaffeinated coffee is already available at 112 major city and highway filling stations in 16 regions of Ukraine.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonite says she is ready to send Lithuanian troops to Ukraine for a training mission.