The European Commissioner for EU Enlargement, Marta Kos, has recorded a video greeting in Ukrainian to mark Vyshyvanka Day.

France has pledged €10 million to the Chernobyl Shelter Fund of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to finance repairs to the protective shelter over Unit No 4 at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), damaged by a Russian drone.

Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, has outlined the next steps on Kyiv's path to EU membership after the country completed internal procedures needed to open the first cluster in accession negotiations.

The Ukrainian government has today (14 May) approved the roadmaps necessary to open the first cluster in the pre-accession negotiations between Ukraine and the EU.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reported that he is scheduled to meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara on Thursday, but if Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin agrees to fly to Istanbul, he and Erdoğan are prepared to travel there instead.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated on Tuesday that the European Union is prepared to impose tougher sanctions on Russia if there is no progress this week in ending the war in Ukraine.

The European Union is discussing ways to prevent Hungary from disrupting the actual start of negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU.

Andrii Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, has said that if Russian ruler Vladimir Putin refuses to hold talks in Türkiye, this will indicate that Russia does not want to end the war.

A protest of Polish hauliers began near the Dorohusk checkpoint on the Polish-Ukrainian border at 16:00 Kyiv time on Monday 12 May.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that in the afternoon of 12 May he would speak with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European counterparts amid a demand for Russia to observe a 30-day ceasefire.

In response to Germany's promise to impose additional sanctions against Russia together with its European allies if a ceasefire is not introduced on 12 May, the Kremlin has said that Russia can’t be spoken to in the language of ultimatums.

Restrictions introduced by Germany’s new government on disclosing arms deliveries to Ukraine will also apply to potential supplies of long-range Taurus missiles, if such a decision is made.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on Monday discussed "strong steps" regarding Russia, including new sanctions, with the foreign ministers of the largest European states.

German government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius has stated that if a 30-day ceasefire is not established in Ukraine by the end of Monday, Berlin, together with its European partners, will begin preparing new sanctions against Russia.

Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has accused Russia of "playing games" and said that a ceasefire must be established before any negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine begin.