- A strategic bridge in Luhansk Oblast has been destroyed, with some claiming it was blown up in an act of sabotage, and others saying it simply collapsed due to lack of maintenance.
- The Ukrainian parliament’s legal policy and justice committee on May 21 approved sending President Petro Poroshenko’s bill on setting up an anti-corruption court for second reading – the last legislative hurdle before it can be signed by the president.
- Three fighters from the Russian-led forces in the Donbas have been taken prisoner by Ukrainian troops, the Joint Forces Operation press center reported early on May 21.
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke by telephone on May 21 about Merkel’s recent visit to Russia, efforts to implement the Minsk agreement and gas transit through Ukraine.
- Mineral fertilizer company EuroChem has sold its Ukrainian subsidiary, Agrocenter EuroChem-Ukraine, after the country’s government imposed an embargo on the import of Russian fertilizer
- New raids and arrests in Crimea by Russian occupation authorites are “large-scale provocations” and “attempts to discredit the Mejlis,” according to the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov
- Two children have been taken to intensive care and 34 more are under the supervision of doctors after an unknown substance was sprayed in a school in Mykolaiv. It’s the second mysterious apparent poisoning at a school in Ukraine in recent days.
- In the wake of a public scandal over the poor condition of the country’s veterans care program, a new crowdfunding project has been launched to collect money to support Ukrainian veterans of Russia’s war on Ukraine in the Donbas.
- Accommodation-starved Kyiv just gained another 310 hotel rooms with the official opening on May 18 of Aloft Kyiv, the first hotel managed by Marriott International in Ukraine.
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