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An altercation took place in Odessa involving businessman Valery Tverdovsky, the owner of the Palladium and Itaka clubs. According to the businessman, members of the Traffic Police used pepper spray against him when he tried to intervene following a road traffic accident involving an acquaintance of his.
Ihor Negulevskyi, a Member of Parliament for the “Servant of the People” party, who was notified by NABU and the SAPO in late 2025 that he was under investigation in a case concerning the payment of MPs for their votes, had recently begun renting an estate of almost 800 square metres in Kozin. Journalists found an advertisement for the rental of this house for $5,000 a month.
On 21 May, Vyshyvanka Day, Ukrainians are being urged to take part in a new campaign called ‘The Embroidered Ribbon of Remembrance’. Its aim is to honour the defenders who gave their lives for Ukraine.
On 7 May, according to the new church calendar, Ukraine celebrates the Lyubets Icon of the Mother of God – one of the oldest sacred sites in the Chernihiv region. Locally, this day is known as Kupalnytsia and is associated with water, gardening, omens regarding the harvest, and prohibitions against quarrelling, gossip and fortune-telling.
Ukrzaliznytsia is deploying over 800 modular shelters across the country in response to the increasing number of attacks on railway infrastructure. One such shelter in the Kharkiv region has already saved the life of a train conductor following an attack by an enemy drone.
In Prague, thousands of people gathered in Old Town Square to show their support for public media and to protest against changes to the funding of public broadcasters. The protesters view the government’s proposal as a threat to the independence of Czech Television and Czech Radio.
The 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano caused an unexpected cooling of the stratosphere instead of the predicted warming. Scientists attribute this effect to the enormous volume of water vapour that the eruption ejected into the upper atmosphere.
In its ruling of 29 April 2026 in case No. 520/14746/25, the Supreme Court ruled that, when a member of the armed forces is discharged on family grounds, it is not only the formal existence of relatives that matters, but also their actual ability to care for a person with a disability.
After his position was overrun, Ukrainian soldier Vadym Letunov accidentally ended up in a Russian dugout, thinking his comrades were there. He spent two weeks alongside an armed Russian soldier, survived, and made his way back to his own lines, accompanied by a prisoner of war.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has released details of four individuals who have been served with notices of suspicion in connection with the case involving the abduction, torture and sexual assault of a Ukrainian volunteer in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region. According to the investigation, the crime took place in 2014 in Antratsyt.
Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada’s Commissioner for Human Rights, has stated that the systematic militarisation of Ukrainian children in the temporarily occupied territories should be recognised as a crime against humanity. According to him, Russia has for years been turning education into a tool for propaganda, instilling fear and preparing children for war.
MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak stated that during the vote on the 2026 state budget, some parliamentary factions and groups allegedly demanded that restrictions be placed on the mechanism for imposing sanctions against Ukrainian citizens. According to him, the amendment was ultimately not put to a vote following a promise not to use this instrument for political purposes.
