Czech law enforcers believe enough evidence has been collected proving Russia’s intelligence agency has masterminded the explosions at an ammunition depot in Vrbetice, aiming to undermine defense assistance to Ukraine.
According to Financial Times estimates, the seven largest Western banks remaining in Russia paid more than EUR 800 million in taxes to Russia last year.
Col Ants Kiviselg, commander of the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) Intelligence Center, has said that Russia is intensifying its attacks on Ukraine to try and take advantage of the last "window of opportunity" before Western military equipment and ammunition arrives.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia has purchased at least 6,000 Shahed 136 suicide drones, manufactured by Iranian company Sahara Thunder. Now, the U.S. is demanding that its assets be frozen
The reports about the alleged "first face-to-face negotiations" between Ukraine and Russia regarding the exchange of children do not correspond to reality.
There can be no negotiations with Russia regarding Crimea so Ukraine continues to work within the framework of the Crimea Platform so that the problem of the temporary occupation of the peninsula remains on the radar of the international community.
The resumed U.S. defense aid to Ukraine will not be enough to defeat Russia as the West must realize that the era of peace in Europe is over and unite with Ukraine in a single front.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine says Russia has designed a concrete plan to disrupt the Global Peace Summit set to be held in Switzerland in June.
The Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, together with the Ukrainian Child Rights Network, has returned 17-year-old Myroslava, who was forced to go to Russia to study, from Russia.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo have discussed the tightening of sanctions against Russia, particularly in the field of high technologies.
After the Russian missile strike on Chernihiv, which caused numerous casualties and destruction, the European Union's Ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Mathernova, said that Russia must pay for these war crimes.
British intelligence notes that Ukraine's attack on the Shahed kamikaze drone production facility in the remote region of Tatarstan demonstrates the ability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to penetrate deep into Russia.