Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky instructed the prime minister, defense and foreign ministers and the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to work with partners to speed up the delivery of weapons to the front.
The number of children injured in a Russian strike on Derhachi, Kharkiv region, has increased to eight, all of whom were in a sports club at the time of the attack.
The Russian forces launched an attack on the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson, damaging a store, smashing windows in an educational institution and a residential building.
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that preventing Russia from winning the war is a strategic security goal, and under certain circumstances, he does not rule out sending European ground troops to Ukraine.
Strengthening cooperation in defense production and further integration of the EU and Ukrainian defense industries will be the main topics of the EU-Ukraine Defense Industry Forum to be held on May 6 in Brussels.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili called on citizens to make an "existential" choice between Russia and Europe, commenting on the law on "foreign agents."
The pace of recovery in Mykolaiv region has slowed down somewhat due to the redistribution of personal income tax and the focus of foreign partners on the production of weapons for the Armed Forces.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has welcomed the decision of the United States to impose additional restrictive measures against Russia related to the aggressor state's unleashing a full-scale war against Ukraine and the use of chemical weapons.
The Swiss government said on Thursday that "at this stage" Russia is not among the dozens of countries invited to talks to be held in Switzerland in mid-June aimed at helping bring about peace between Moscow and Ukraine.
In April alone, the Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with more than 300 missiles of different types, almost the same number of Shahed kamikaze drones and more than 3,200 guided aerial bombs.