Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said that Ukraine will go after Russia’s shadow grain fleet and its enablers across all geographic areas.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the approval of new Ukrainian operations aimed at increasing pressure on Russia and forcing it toward diplomacy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump, said that Russia was ready to declare a ceasefire on May 9.

In the Mykolaiv region, five people were injured as a result of an attack by Russian Shahed-type drones.

In the Kyiv region, 81 distributed gas generation units with a total capacity of 103 MW are currently in operation, while an additional roughly 150 MW is in the process of being installed.

Deputy Prime Minister for Recovery and Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksii Kuleba noted that in the process of implementing thermal decentralization, attention is being focused on Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Dnipro—large urban areas that rely on centralized heating systems.

Two people were killed and another was injured in the Dnipropetrovsk region as a result of Russian attacks.

The final operation to save the whale is being closely followed, after the failure of earlier attempts.

Malagasy prosecuters used a Whatsapp group as evidence for the detained individuals alleged crimes.

In the Kherson region, seven residents of the regional capital were injured during the day as a result of shelling; all of them were struck by enemy drones.