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Our troops have regained control of Odradne and the surrounding area in the Dvorichanskyi district of the Kharkiv region.
Serhiy Rebrov, the former head coach of the Ukrainian national football team, has paid 30 million hryvnias in bail for Andriy Yermak, the former head of the President’s Office. The total amount paid so far stands at around 44.5 million hryvnias.
On Friday, 15 May, the Council of Europe adopted a key decision regarding the establishment of a Special Tribunal on the Russian Federation’s crime of aggression against Ukraine — it approved an agreement on the creation of a steering committee.
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the amounts of the one-off cash payments to mark Ukraine’s Independence Day. The payments are due to be made by 24 August.
Over the past 24 hours, the Russian army has lost a further 1,150 troops in the war against Ukraine. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, total Russian personnel losses since the start of the full-scale invasion have exceeded 1.34 million.
In the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv, 24 people, including three children, were killed as a result of a Russian strike. Rescue workers are continuing search and rescue operations at the site of the destroyed building.
Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil, sparking protests in the capital, Havana.
Hungary’s new Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, has lifted the state of emergency imposed by Viktor Orbán due to the threat of war.
The Russian Ministry of Defence has come up with a cynical excuse for its protracted combined attack on Ukraine, claiming that it has allegedly carried out a "retaliatory strike".
Law enforcement officers have concluded their investigation into members of a drug trafficking organisation who, according to the investigation, organised the large-scale distribution of methadone across various regions of Ukraine. An indictment against eight suspects has already been submitted to the court.
Ukraine, which just a few years ago was asking its allies for long-range missiles, may now itself become a supplier of such systems to Europe. Italy is considering purchasing Ukrainian missiles and attack drones due to a lack of its own modern long-range weaponry.
As part of a UNICEF programme, 50 million hryvnia has already been allocated to support children with disabilities in subgroup A from nine frontline regions of Ukraine.
