Canada's Defence Minister Bill Blair announced on Friday that the country is allocating 76 million Canadian dollars (55.7 million US dollars) to a German-led initiative aimed at rapidly delivering air defence systems to Ukraine to repel Russian attacks.
On 9 May, Europe Day, Kyiv hosted the EuroSummit of NGOs, whose participants worked out a common vector of work in the process of Ukraine's membership in the European Union.
According to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, at least 129 civilians were killed and 574 others were injured in April as a result of hostilities.
Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, believes that the critical phase of the war will come in the next two months.
Most Ukrainians believe that Ukraine is a democratic state, but compared to previous years they have changed their opinion and think that a democratic system is more important to Ukraine than a strong leader.
Russian troops attempted to break through the defense line in the Vovchansk direction - all attacks were repelled, and fighting of varying intensity continues.
The number of injured as a result of the detonation of a Russian shell in Kyselivka, Kherson region, has increased to two, as authorities reported another victim.