Euromaidan Press Staff

The Kapotnya refinery took its second strike in three days as an SBU unit said the capital's sense of security is eroding.

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On the diplomatic front, Britain signed a $282 million deal to supply enriched uranium to Ukrainian reactors.

Meanwhile, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas declared the Lavra strike a war crime and unveiled a new sanctions package targeting 34 individuals and 47 entities, including two Chinese drone-component suppliers.

The EU formally opened the first cluster of accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova, ending years of delays and vetoes, while Kyiv confirmed strikes on two Tatarstan refineries and a rocket-fuel rubber plant.

From a wedding camera to a war machine: Ukraine's drone forces mark one year, claim every third Russian casualty.

The IAEA meanwhile warned that military activity has been documented near every one of Ukraine's nuclear sites, calling the situation unacceptable.

May was Ukraine's deadliest civilian month since 2022, the UN told the Security Council, even as Russia confirmed its Kalibrs again rely on foreign electronics and began moving gasoline to the front in sedan trunks.

Britain, France, and Germany have thrown their weight behind Ukraine's peace terms after meeting President Zelenskyy in London, setting out five conditions for a lasting settlement and pressing Putin to agree to a ceasefire.

A Russian drone damaged a nuclear fuel storage facility in the Chornobyl exclusion zone, while Ukrainian Special Forces struck a fuel depot and maritime terminal in occupied Crimea as part of an "asymmetric" campaign to disrupt Russian logistics.

Ukraine's "Logistics Lockdown" pushed further into Russia's transport network in May, while a fresh US aid package hands Kyiv a win.

Zelenskyy issued an open letter telling Putin the war is his personal choice, as Germany, France, and the UK sketched a plan to bring Moscow to the negotiating table — with Kyiv holding the final say. On the battlefield, Ukraine claimed "fire control" over occupied Donetsk Airport, closing out its heaviest deep-strike month of the year. Sweden and France seized Russian shadow-fleet assets, while the IAEA reported fresh attacks on power infrastructure tied to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

A 24-country summit in Kyiv on 26 May produced the first in-person handshake between Belarus's exiled leader Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine's drone forces commander said the first 500 targets are already marked should Belarus enter the war. The diplomats Russia told to evacuate stayed.

The same day, Russia warned diplomats to leave Kyiv and threatened a new wave of systemic missile strikes, a day after launching an Oreshnik on Bila Tserkva.