According to Ukrinform, the Prosecutor General's Office reported this on Facebook "Under the procedural guidance of the Lubny District Prosecutor's Office two individuals -- residents of Lubny and Poltava -- have been notified of their charges," the statement said One suspect is accused of obstructing the lawful activities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during a special period and the theft of a firearm involving violence (Part 1 of Article 114-1 and Part 3 of Article 262 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) The second suspect is charged with aiding in obstructing the lawful activities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during a special period (Part 5 of Article 27 Part 1 of Article 114-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) a resident of Poltava was traveling to a military training unit accompanied by servicemen from the Poltava District Territorial Recruitment Center he repeatedly called an acquaintance from Lubny When the bus stopped at a gas station in Pyriatyn opened fire on one of the accompanying officers He then seized the victim's assault rifle and fled the scene with his accomplice law enforcement officers found two grenade casings and other items in the possession of the Lubny resident The seized evidence has been sent for forensic examination The stolen assault rifle was later discovered in a forested area where the suspects had abandoned it and authorities are deciding on preventive measures for the suspects While citing and using any materials on the Internet links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and the website of a foreign media outlet Materials marked as "Advertisement" or with a disclaimer reading "The material has been posted in accordance with Part 3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" No 1996 and the Law of Ukraine "On the Media" No 2023 and on the basis of an agreement/invoice Online media entity; Media identifier - R40-01421 This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page (Updated: May 6, 2025 6:22 am)Ukraine's drones target Moscow second night in a row, Russian official claims. Debris from one of the drones reportedly fell on the Kashirskoye Highway The reported attack comes just days before Russia's Victory Day parade and three-day "truce." A Russian drone attack on Odesa Oblast on May 5 killed one and caused damage to local infrastructure "We appreciate that Germany plays a pivotal role in supporting Ukraine throughout the years of war Ukraine is also grateful for your personal commitment," President Volodymyr Zelensky said MPs will be able to ask questions and learn more about the details of the agreement in meetings with Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko May 6-7 MP Serhii Sobolev told the news outlet Suspilne The ratification vote is scheduled for May 8 Attacks against the border villages of Bilopillia and Vorozhba damaged civilian infrastructure and triggered emergency evacuations the regional military administration reported "I look forward to working with President Erdogan on getting the ridiculous war between Russia and Ukraine ended — now!" U.S Putin's Victory Day truce "doesn't sound like much if you know where we started from," Trump told reporters at the White House on May 5 Far-right Euroskeptic candidate George Simion head of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan placed second with 20.99% of the vote and the candidate from the ruling coalition "It requires the continuation of contacts between Moscow and Washington which have been launched and are now ongoing," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said set to operate within the Council of Europe will focus on Russia's political and military leaders up to 20 Russian soldiers were killed and their equipment destroyed by Martin FornusekArchive photo: People walk in a park on May 18 (Pierre Crom/Getty Images)Three out of the five residents of Ukraine's Poltava Oblast injured in a mass Russian attack on Aug Russia launched what Ukraine's Air Force called the largest attack on Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion on Aug seven civilians had been killed and over 40 injured across Ukraine The five Poltava Oblast residents were injured early on Aug. 26 when Russia targeted an industrial facility in the region drone debris damaged a house in the Lubny district Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press He was also volunteering as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukraïner Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies On the night of Thursday, January 30, the Russian army attacked Ukraine with kamikaze drones. The destruction was recorded in the Poltava region, according to the Poltava Regional Military Administration. A stable was destroyed as a result of the fall of a Russian Geran-2 drone No damage to civilian or critical infrastructure was reported The Russian army attacked Poltava region on the night of January 25 5 private houses and a fence were partially damaged as a result of a Geran-2 drone falling into an open area the Russian army traditionally launched attack drones into Ukraine An air raid alert was announced in many regions However, Russia struck one of the high-rise buildings in the city of Sumy According to the Poltava Regional Military Administration the number of victims of the Russian night attack increased to four Another 9 people sustained injuries of varying severity were rounded up and later massacred in October 1941 by Germans and their collaborators This photo was taken by German Wehrmacht photographer Johannes Hähle for his private use The story of their nation is forever linked to the 1.5 million Jews who were killed in the region during the Holocaust and millions of other Ukrainian civilians who died in the war Russian President Vladimir Putin has twisted that history to justify an invasion falsely claiming to be waging war against Nazism and genocide Join us to learn the history of this land and people including Holocaust survivors who are under threat once again Deanie and Jay Stein Director of International Affairs Watch live at facebook.com/holocaustmuseum. You do not need a Facebook account to view our program. After the live broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on the Museum’s Facebook and YouTube pages SS and German police units and their auxiliaries perpetrated one of the largest massacres of World War II It took place at a ravine called Babyn Yar (Babi Yar) just outside the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv Hitler and the National Socialists saw the lands of the Soviet Union as prime settlement area for future long-term expansion of the German "race." They also defined the Soviet system as the political expression of the expansion of the Jewish "race." From the founding of the Nazi movement in Germany the Soviet Union was portrayed as an enemy with which a showdown was inevitable The Museum strongly condemns Russia’s outrageous attack on Ukraine and is deeply concerned about threats to civilians and loss of life Vladimir Putin has misrepresented and misappropriated Holocaust history by claiming falsely that democratic Ukraine needs to be “denazified.” With a heavy share of more than 11 percent of the GDP correlated to the intensive transport-demand structure of the economy transport was (and still is) critical to Ukraine’s development While the sector had been relying heavily on rail and pipelines for heavy freight and long haulage road transport demand has been growing steadily over the past decades the road network was starting to show traffic capacity bottlenecks compounded by insufficient budget allocations that led to significant network deterioration was affecting average speed and increasing transport costs more than half of the national road network had excessive roughness and close to 40 percent presented structural problems with fatality rates of about 10/10,000 vehicles more than double those found in the best performing European countries. Click here to open a larger map In close coordination with interventions from international funding stakeholders in other regions this World Bank-funded project was designed to address some capacity concerns and safety issues on the M-03 national road a major road corridor linking the capital Kiev to industrial regions in Eastern Ukraine by rehabilitating and duplicating about 120 kilometers of the road It also aimed to address road safety by supporting the elimination of a number of black spots on the country’s road network as well as at contributing to improved efficiency in the management of the sector through institutional strengthening Although the project enabled the introduction of best practices in construction quality assurance and contract management in Ukraine the black spot elimination strategy was revised toward a corridor approach as the affected areas were too geographically scattered to be operational. Engineers estimate the newly reconstructed highway could last for about 20 years without major rehabilitation Workers have widened the road from two to four lanes of which an International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) loan financed US$400 million complemented by counterpart financing provided by the Government of Ukraine Two additional activities supporting the project including a road technical audit and an assessment by the European Road Assessment Program were financed by two Trust Funds for a total amount estimated at US$1.5 million The World Bank coordinated its efforts with other international funding institutions active in the roads sector in Ukraine While the EC and EIB concentrated on the main international corridors EBRD focused on improving the roads in Western Ukraine and financing the first road rehabilitation and maintenance performance-based contracts designed by World Bank-financed technical assistance Road condition and safety improvements under the project have allowed the M-03 road’s capacity concerns to be addressed in a sustainable manner and brought good practices to the road sector the second Road and Safety Improvement Project was prepared in 2012 and aims at expanding the rehabilitation and improvement of the M-03 between Kyiv-Kharkiv-Dovzhansky further to the East The direct beneficiaries are the people who live in the vicinity of the M-03 locations where the black spots have been resolved or eliminated and areas near the Simferopol and Alushta road this represents approximately 180,000 inhabitants the habitual and occasional users of these roads (traffic volume on the M-03 is about 15,000 vehicle per day) are also the direct beneficiaries of the project. 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Your feedback is very helpful to us as we work to improve the site functionality on worldbank.org. 2018 10:59 AM EDTGoogle honored Women’s World Chess Champion Lyudmila Rudenko with a 1960’s graphic art-inspired Google Doodle Ukraine—became a chess champion at just 24 years old during the 1928 Moscow Women’s Chess Championship Rudenko was first introduced to chess by her father at just 10-years-old, according to Rudenko’s Google Doodle page chess wasn’t Rudenko’s initial interest Rudenko won a local competition for the 400-yard breast stroke in Ukraine before moving to Moscow in 1925 where she began to focus on her chess skills Rudenko became the second woman to ever hold the Women’s World Chess Championship (while the championship started in 1927 Vera Menchik dominated the chess competition until her death) Rudenko held the Women’s World Chess Championship title until 1953 and was named Women’s Grandmaster in 1976 She passed away 10 years later at age the age of 81 in Saint Petersburg Rudenko was inducted to the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2015 Google said despite her groundbreaking accomplishments in chess she considered organizing the evacuation of children during the Siege of Leningrad in World War II as her greatest feat Gooogle said their doodle is in celebration of Rudenko is inspired by 1960 graphic art posters and “reimagines a focused Rudenko’s determination during the world championship game.” Write to Gina Martinez at gina.martinez@time.com David Brennan is Newsweek's Diplomatic Correspondent covering world politics and conflicts from London with a focus on NATO David joined Newsweek in 2018 and has since reported from key locations and summits across Europe and the South Caucasus This includes extensive reporting from the Baltic David graduated from the University of Cambridge having specialized in the history of empires and revolutions You can contact David at d.brennan@newsweek.com and follow him on Twitter @DavidBrennan100 either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content Google has commemorated Lyudmila Rudenko with its latest Doodle the legendary Soviet chess player who held the title of women's world champion between 1950 and 1953 A trailblazer for women in sport, Rudenko is also remembered as the savior of many children during World War II when she organized their evacuation from the besieged city of Leningrad Rudenko was born on July 27, 1904, in Lubny. The city was then part of the Russian Empire, but today is located in central Ukraine Though her father began teaching Rudenko to play chess from the age of 10 she was more interested in swimming as a child she went on to college in Odessa to study economics where she became swimming champion in the 400m breastroke and by 1925 Rudenko was the swimming vice-champion of Ukraine in her chosen stroke After graduation, she began a career as an economic planner in Moscow her talent led her to the tournament chess scene and Rudenko won her first competition in 1928 at the Moscow women's championship where she met her husband Lev Davidovich Goldstein with whom she had a son in 1931 Rudenko continued to refine her chess skills and trained with chess master Peter Romanovsky and Rudenko won the Leningrad women's championship three times By this time, the dark clouds of war were gathering over Europe. Rudenko had come of age during the tumultuous years that spawned the USSR Leningrad was to become one of the most infamous settings of World War II as the city was subjected to a 900-day siege by invading German forces The siege is known as one of the most gruesome in human history The Nazi campaign to take Leningrad resulted in more than 3 million Soviet and more than 500,000 German casualties More than 1 million civilians would also perish whether trapped inside the city or while attempting to flee With winter temperatures as low as -22 degrees Fahrenheit The armament factory Rudenko was working in was evacuated ahead of the advancing Germans. However, many of the children of the workers were left behind. Rudenko was put in charge of rescuing these children as the siege began She organized a special train to save the children just before the German ring of steel clamped down around the city's outskirts Rudenko always considered this her proudest and most important achievement In the winter of 1949-1950, the World Chess Federation held a tournament in Moscow to find its new women's champion, the previous victor having been killed in an air raid on London in 1944. Rudenko bested the other 15 competitors to claim the title The top four spots all went to Soviet women Rudenko was awarded the title of International Master and in 1976 the status of Woman Grandmaster She held the Women's World Championship title until 1953 when she lost it to fellow Russian Elisaveta Bykova Rudenko finished the tournament with a record of five wins Rudenko died in Leningrad on March 4, 1986, aged 81. She was inducted into the Chess Hall of Fame in 2015 The commemorative Doodle depicts Rudenko leaning on a chess board showing what Google describes as "a focused Rudenko's determination during the world championship game." Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground Newsletters in your inbox See all a 2022 Ukrainian film which brought much-needed levity to an event overshadowed by the ongoing war in the country Written and directed by Antonio Lukich and starring Ukrainian twins Amil and Ramil Nasirov Luxembourg had a room full of non-Ukrainian speakers laughing at witty dialogue and physical comedy What’s astounding is how deftly Luxembourg Luxembourg – from its opening scenes - managed to bring back a sense of light-heartedness which also screened at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and La Biennale di Venezia follows twins in the Ukrainian city of Lubny Shortly after the collapse of communism in the early 1990s their mother had gone shopping in the Balkans and had come back with a Serbian husband involved in organised crime whom they hadn’t seen since they were children is a police officer and regards his with indifference at best Luxembourg establishes its comedic tone early on: subtle body language and voice overs by Kolya admittedly give the film’s comedy a slightly dark hue although it takes care to never forsake meaningful family drama for a cheap laugh Within the first few minutes of the film’s premiere at Neumünster a formerly sombre crowd was howling at the constant humiliations faced by the leading twins in-between getting into trouble at work and failing to attract women suddenly gets a phone call from the Ukrainian consulate in Luxembourg and Kolya asks his brother to go with him to the Grand Duchy sick of his delinquent twin and not interested in seeing his uncaring father But through a series of comedic failures - be they in relationships or via family - the pair suddenly find it in their best interest to leave Lubny to see their dying father Luxembourg through body language and subtitles alone delivered moments of uproar from the crowd Via a video message, Ukraine's Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko addressed the festival directly, emphasising the continued importance of art and film and cultural cooperation between Ukraine and EU countries. “Ukraine, despite the terrible context of the war is rightfully returning to the European cultural space to which it mentally and historically belongs,” Tkachenko said. The relieving sense of levity which Luxembourg, Luxembourg brought to CinEast’s opening ceremony would have been no easy feat. But by the time the twins made their way to the Grand Duchy to visit their father and audience members started recognising landmarks, the film had managed to turn the atmosphere from one overshadowed by war to one where the room sometimes reached near-hysteric levels of laughter. Luxembourg, Luxembourg will be screened for the last time on CinEast’s final day on 23 October at Neumünster. Luxembourg, Luxembourg, in my view, is one of this year’s festival’s highlights. 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