In national news:
- President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reinstated the Ukrainian citizenship of Mikheil Saakashvili, former president of Georgia who served as Odesa governor. Saakashvili announced he would return to Kyiv on May 29, after nearly two years in exile.
- Former Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk was appointed as secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
- President Zelenskiy made his first visit to the Donbas war zone. He checked the living conditions of soldiers: housing, toilets, bathrooms, meals, and equipment supplies. Unlike his predecessor, Zelenskiy didn’t don military uniform.
- President Zelenskiy met with the IMF officials. They agreed to prepare a new aid program to be ready after a parliamentary election in July, Reuters reported.
- In Kyiv, a human rights event on anti-Roma violence was disrupted by several men who introduced themselves as members of far-right group Unknown Patriot. One man even brought an ax and two knives “for demonstration purposes.” No one was hurt.
- US envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker: Zelenskiy’s success in election signals ‘high expectations’
- Residents in the government-controlled part of Donetsk Oblast were left without water supply after a local energy company shut down electricity at Bakhmut water filtration plant over debts.
In business news:
- Dragon Capital sells Chumak, Ukraine’s leading producer of ketchup, sauces, and pasta, to a subsidiary of Singapore-based Wilmar International.
- Chinese company Skywell will manufacture electric buses in Ukraine
- Oleg Ustenko, executive director at the Bleyzer Foundation, became an adviser to President Zelenskiy.
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