# Emergency events
Passengers are being evacuated from a cruise ship off the coast of Tenerife due to the hantavirus
On 10 May, Spain began evacuating passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius, on board which an outbreak of hantavirus had been detected. The ship is currently anchored off the coast of Tenerife.
In Lviv, a man armed with a knife took a child hostage
In Lviv, police have arrested a man who took a 13-year-old girl hostage and threatened her with a knife. The girl was freed within minutes and was unharmed
On 9 May in Kharkiv, a Russian drone struck a high-rise building: there are casualties
On 9 May in Kharkiv, a Russian drone struck the service floor of a nine-storey residential building in the Industrial District. As a result of the attack, the number of casualties rose to five
Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship: EU prepares large-scale evacuation
Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands are sending planes to evacuate their citizens from the cruise ship MV Hondius, on board which an outbreak of hantavirus has been detected. The ship is heading for the Spanish island of Tenerife
A Russian citizen is suspected of being involved in the death of a 22-year-old man from Kyiv
In the capital, police have arrested a 22-year-old Russian national suspected of attempting to murder a Kyiv resident. The incident took place in the Obolon district on 8 May 2026
Firefighters have rescued an endangered moose calf from the Chernobyl forest, where a fire is still raging (photo)
Staff from the State Emergency Service rescued a red-listed moose calf in the Chernobyl Forest, where a large-scale fire had broken out.
A Ukrainian Magura V5 marine drone has been spotted in Greek territorial waters
A Ukrainian Magura V5 marine drone has been discovered off the coast of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea. According to preliminary reports, the drone was equipped with detonators, but contained no explosives.
In the Netherlands, an unknown person threw a firecracker into the headquarters of the Prime Minister’s party
On the evening of 7 May, an explosion occurred at the offices of the D66 political party, led by Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten. An event was taking place there at the time. No one was injured, and a suspect has already been arrested.
Passengers from the Hondius are being sought in various countries following an outbreak of the disease; a map of the hantavirus
Health authorities in several countries are tracking passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius who disembarked before the outbreak of hantavirus was officially confirmed.
A large-scale forest fire in the Chernihiv region has spread to over 4,000 hectares
A large-scale forest fire is raging on the outskirts of Chernihiv Oblast, having been sparked by Russian shelling. Over the past 24 hours, the area affected by the fire has almost doubled.
Over 1,100 hectares of forest are on fire in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Efforts to bring a large-scale forest fire under control are continuing in the exclusion zone. Due to strong winds and dry weather, the fire is spreading rapidly to new areas of the forest.
23 passengers on the Hondius cruise ship, who were infected with the Hantavirus, had travelled around the world before the quarantine was imposed
Some of the passengers on the cruise ship MV Hondius disembarked back in April and have since returned to their normal lives. According to eyewitnesses, some of them had not received any updates from the medical services for a long time.
