Denys Shmyhal

Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on Friday that the country has obtained a 1.5 billion US dollar tranche from the World Bank program. This funding aims to address budgetary and social expenses amidst the ongoing Russian invasion, as reported by Reuters.

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, currently under Russian control, is facing an increasingly precarious situation, with safety conditions worsening each day, according to Ukraine's Energy Minister.

In a bid to bolster their defense capabilities and foster deeper strategic ties, Bulgaria and Ukraine have announced a significant expansion of their cooperation in the military industry.

As he stated, he ended up in the shelter because of the air raid alarms that went off all over Kyiv.
''Starting my morning in the shelter as air alarms are sounding across Kyiv. This is the daily reality of the brave Ukrainian people, since Russia launched its illegal aggression'', Borrell posted on X platform.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa visited Ukraine on Sunday to meet with her counterpart Dmytro Kuleba to show Tokyo's continued support, a ministry official said.

The unannounced visit was a change to her original two-week tour plan of visiting Poland, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Germany and Türkiye from Friday.

Day 653 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

ZAGREB -The Belgrade-based company Millennium Team will take part in a Zagreb international donors' conference on humanitarian demining in Ukraine on Thursday and Friday.

At least 16 people were killed today in a Russian attack on Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine, said the adviser to the Ukrainian president, Mykhailo Podolyak.

He gave no other details about the attack on the industrial city in Donetsk region, which is close to the front lines.

Local media described the attack as a rocket attack.

Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob paid an unannounced visit to Ukraine on 31 March, his first to the war-torn country. Talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal focused on Slovenia's potential participation in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine and the country's progress towards EU and NATO membership.

"When we rebuild Ukraine, it will be carried out in accordance with the goal of Ukraine's entry into the EU," Scholz said at the opening of the German-Ukrainian economic forum in Berlin.
In his opinion, the traffic infrastructure as well as the transport sector must be renewed so that it will enable a smooth connection to the EU infrastructure.