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Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that the IMF had agreed during talks in Washington that the ⁠introduction of VAT tax on self-employed individuals was “not-constructive” due to the sensitivity of the issue in Ukraine.

The tax was ⁠part of a ​raft ⁠of reforms agreed with the Fund as conditions for an $8bn loan approved in February. Ukrainian ​officials ⁠have since warned ‌that its introduction would prove highly unpopular and it lacked the required ‌support in parliament.

“During the Spring ‌Meetings, we found understanding from our partners that this is indeed a sensitive ⁠topic and a not-constructive idea,” Svyrydenko said on the Telegram app, adding she had held consultations with both IMF and European officials.

“We will continue to work together on the necessary decisions ‌and explore other alternative measures ​to ensure the revenue part ‌of the budget ⁠for 2027.”

Several Ukrainian legislators ⁠suggested on social media on Sunday that a ‌decision regarding ​the tax had ‌only been postponed, not ​cancelled.

Ukrainian military is working to procure 25,000 ground robotic systems to send in the warzone against invading Russian forces in the first half of this year, its defence ministry said.

Defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov said Ukraine will double the total procured robotic systems throughout 2025.

“Our goal — 100 per cent of frontline logistics should be performed by robotic systems,” he said, adding that the expansion follows a meeting with domestic manufacturers of unmanned ground systems, where the ministry outlined its goal of scaling robotic support across the battlefield.

This comes just days after president Volodymyr Zelensky announced that in a rare historic battlefield first, Ukraine’s ground robotic systems of drones and ammunitions were able to recapture land from the Russian forces and saved 22,000 lives in the process.

Ukrainian forces carried out more than 9,000 logistics and evacuation missions using ground robots in March alone, and approximately 21,500 missions during the first quarter of 2026, according to the government.

One man has died and another ⁠injured in a “massive” Ukrainian drone ⁠attack ​on Russia’s ⁠Black Sea port ⁠of Tuapse, ​which ⁠has been ‌set ablaze, local governor Veniamin ‌Kondratiev said ‌this morning citing preliminary ⁠information.

He also said debris from drones damaged several buildings in the city, ‌including a ​kindergarten, ‌primary ⁠school, church ⁠and residential apartment block.

Tuapse is one of Russia’s major southern ports, ⁠serving as an oil product export hub and ​also ⁠handles dry bulk ‌cargo such as coal and fertiliser. It is also home to a major oil ‌refinery of the same name owned ‌by Rosneft, Russia’s biggest oil producer.

Ukraine has increasingly attacked the facility in the past week, with the last attack on Thursday, killing two.

Ukraine drone strikes targeted industrial areas in Novokuibyshevsk and Syzran in Russia’s Samara region, local governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said on Saturday.

He did not give further details, but the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said in a statement that it had hit major oil refineries in both cities.

It also said that its attacks had sparked fires at the Vystosk oil terminal in Russia’s northwestern Leningrad region and an oil refinery in the southern Krasnodar region, with the blazes later confirmed by Russian officials.

Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Russian oil facilities in the past, but the strategy has gained more attention since the Trump administration gave Russian oil a temporary waiver from sanctions to ease supply constraints.

The US treasury department extended its pause on sanctions on Russian oil shipments on Friday, despite complaints from Kyiv officials that Russia will use the additional revenue on new weapons to hit Ukraine harder.

The so-called general license means US sanctions will not apply for 30 days on deliveries of Russian oil that has been loaded on tankers as of Friday. It extended a similar 30-day license issued in March for Russian oil that had been loaded by 11 March.

Hungary’s ​incoming prime minister Peter Magyar has announced talks with EU officials in Budapest, saying there is no time to waste in his efforts to unblock ⁠funds frozen by the bloc over disputes with his predecessor.

Magyar, whose landslide victory in the 12 April election spelled the end of nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule, said he would kickstart the discussions by setting out points where he and the ⁠EU already agreed.

“I expect a constructive ​negotiation. ⁠It will not be easy because we have very little time,” he told a news conference.

He said the chief of ⁠staff of European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen would arrive at ​around ⁠5pm local time as part ‌of a high-level delegation.

“The aim is… to map out before the new government is formed what we agree on and what are ‌the conditions that the next parliament can pass ‌as a law and comply with European conditions,” Magyar said.

The clearance of the funds will also pave for a critical loan for Ukraine, earlier blocked by Orban.

Markets have rallied on ‌Magyar’s victory with hopes that the EU will unblock billions ​of euros of funds and help an economy at near-stagnation.

Yevhen Zhukov, ⁠the head of Ukraine’s Patrol Police – a division of the national police service whose duty is to patrol the streets – resigned yesterday after social media circulated a video showing patrol officers running away after hearing gunfire, leaving civilians without protection.

At least six people were killed and eight people, including a child, remain hospitalised in Kyiv after being wounded in a shooting, mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

“The police officers acted unprofessionally and disgracefully. As police officers, they should have been helping and rescuing our citizens. But they failed to assess the situation properly and left civilians in danger,” online media outlet RBC Ukraine quoted Zhukov as saying.

“As a combat officer, I have decided to submit my resignation from the position I ‌currently hold,” Zhukov added.

Earlier yesterday, interior minister Ihor Klymenko said the officers’ behaviour was “a disgrace to the ​entire system”. An investigation has been launched and decisions will be made regarding their superiors.

Russia has lost at least 1,318,220 troops in Ukraine since the invasion in February 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said over the weekend.

These include 1,070 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Russia has also lost 11,882 tanks, 24,420 armoured combat vehicles, 90,397 vehicles and fuel tanks, 40,324 artillery systems, 1,748 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,349 air defence systems, 435 aircraft, 350 helicopters, 247,131 drones, 33 ships and boats, and two submarines, the Ukrainian military said in its daily update.

Ukraine is holding discussions with several European nations about the creation of a new defence ​system against ballistic weapons, president Volodymyr Zelensky said.

“I believe, and my idea is ​that ⁠we should have a ‌European anti-ballistic missile defence system. We are in talks with several countries and are working in this ‌direction,” Zelensky told the national TV channel, ‌Marathon.

“We need to build our own anti-ballistic missile defence system within a year,” he added.

Zelensky said the task ⁠is extremely difficult but realistic, and added that he had already discussed it with key European countries, though he did not name them.

Defence against ballistic missiles is one of Ukraine’s biggest challenges in the war with Russia, since only certain types of missiles used by the American Patriot system ⁠are capable of intercepting Russian ​ballistic ⁠missiles.

Russia uses ballistic missiles to attack Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, destroying thermal power generation and electricity ⁠transmission systems.

Fire Point, maker of Ukraine’s Flamingo cruise missile, told Reuters this month that it was ‌in talks with European companies to launch a ​new air defence system by next year, ‌creating a low-cost alternative ⁠to the increasingly hard-to-get Patriot system.

Patriot missiles ⁠are in short supply amid extensive deployment in the Gulf ‌against Iranian ​attacks. And Europe’s only anti-ballistic ‌system, the Italo-French SAMP/T, ​is produced in relatively small numbers.