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Ukraine’s very long weekend continued with Labor Day on May 1. But the news never stops. Here’s the latest from Ukraine and beyond.
- A company in Ukraine’s UkrOboronProm defense complex has come to an agreement with a Turkish state company to produce guided missiles for Turkish tanks.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree fast-tracking Russian citizenship for even more residents of Ukraine and other countries. Now Ukrainians living in Russia-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts aren’t the only ones eligible for simplified citizenship procedures. Ukrainians who lived in Crimea before Russia annexed it in 2014; Ukrainians who currently have residency rights in Russia; and citizens of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen who were born in Soviet Russia are also eligible.
- Putin’s initial decree on simplifying citizenship procedures for people in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk obasts on April 24 was condemned by both President Petro Poroshenko and President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Many members of the UN Security Council also criticized the move.
- Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukraine’s next president, bought a luxury apartment in Crimea for less than half the market rate from business tycoon Oleksandr Buryak, Reuters reports.
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