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Thursday, 21 May 2026, 01:14
20 May 2026
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov stated that a meeting of the Staff discussed the implementation of controlled exports of Ukrainian defense products and further steps under the political agreements of the Drone Deal.
Ukraine and the European Union have finalized negotiations on a Memorandum of Understanding for EUR 8.35 billion in macro-financial assistance under an EU loan program, with European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity Valdis Dombrovskis signing the document on Wednesday morning.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury will extend for one more month the sanctions exemption allowing the sale of Russian oil already loaded onto tankers.
A risk of a large-scale gasoline shortage is emerging in Russia due to problems at oil refineries.
19 May 2026
Despite widespread claims on social media about an alleged massive influx of labor migrants from Asian and African countries, the real figures indicate the opposite: the number of foreigners coming to work in Ukraine is currently significantly lower than it was before Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Germany has already provided more than EUR 1.2 billion in emergency support to Ukraine's energy sector, making it the largest bilateral donor in this field.
On the morning of May 19, Russian forces struck several gas infrastructure facilities in the Chernihiv region.
As of the morning of May 19, consumers in the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions were left without electricity due to new Russian attacks.
At the 18th annual meeting of the TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission, Ukraine signed an agreement introducing a unified electronic document for international road freight transport across the territories of member states of the Europe–Caucasus–Asia corridor.
18 May 2026
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that in the first five months of this year, Russia's budget deficit turned out to be significantly higher than what the Russian authorities had planned for the entire year, and that a large number of regions in the aggressor state are already in a state of bankruptcy.
Kyiv and Warsaw should jointly develop a major export corridor connecting Europe with the Middle East.
Poland is ready to establish joint ventures with Ukraine in the defense industry sector, including the production of dual-use goods.
Hungarian authorities have revoked the March 6 decisions targeting Oschadbank cash collection employees, including the ban on their entry into the Schengen Area.
According to Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Russia is reducing the number of active oil wells, while oil refining in the country has already declined by 10% in 2026.
The share of troubled assets in Russia’s banking sector has exceeded 10%, a threshold considered the beginning of a systemic crisis, according to Ukrainian intelligence.
17 May 2026
No electricity restrictions are planned for Monday.
The administration of the U.S. President Donald Trump has not renewed the license permitting temporary transactions involving the sale of Russian oil.
Major shipping companies, including MSC, Maersk, and CMA CGM, have found a partial workaround to the effectively closed Strait of Hormuz amid the U.S. war against Iran.
No electricity consumption restrictions are planned in Ukraine on Sunday, May 17.
16 May 2026
More than UAH 30 billion in additional grants are planned in 2026 to support communities in frontline territories, where over 6.6 million people currently live.
In Ukraine on Sunday, May 17, no electricity consumption restrictions are planned.
According to a statement by China's Ministry of Commerce, China and the United States have agreed to reduce tariffs on certain goods in order to promote bilateral trade.
15 May 2026
Since the beginning of the year, Ukrainian drones have struck at least 16 Russian oil refineries, leading to reduced refining capacity, lower exports of petroleum products, and additional pressure on Russia’s oil revenues.
As of May 15 morning, users in six regions are without power due to new Russian attacks.
Ukraine is steadily developing a new defense industry ecosystem that encompasses not only finished products but also the components and subcomponents that support them.
Since the beginning of 2026, more than 120 criminal proceedings have been launched in the Dnipropetrovsk region in the budgetary sphere.
14 May 2026
Due to a massive Russian attack that has been ongoing since May 13, users in Kyiv and eleven regions are left without power.
13 May 2026
Twenty-three strikes have been recorded as a result of the Russian attack on railway infrastructure facilities.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, 24 criminal proceedings are being investigated regarding cooperation between companies and the aggressor state in circumvention of sanctions.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed hope that the European support package worth EUR 90 billion will become operational no later than the beginning of June, with the first tranche allocated to drone production.