The European Parliament's Committee on International Trade has approved a 50% increase in duties on certain Russian and Belarusian agricultural goods.

Russia is amassing forces on the front line for a possible new offensive to seize additional Ukrainian territory.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has reported that no meeting between Russia and Ukraine has been organised as of yet in response to the Russian Federation's claims that talks were scheduled for this morning but were subsequently postponed until the afternoon.

The next steps in Ukraine's negotiations with the Russian delegation in Türkiye will be determined after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

US President Donald Trump has said he is ready to come to Istanbul on Friday 16 May, for talks on the Russia-Ukraine war.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the United States is open to almost "any mechanism" to achieve peace in Ukraine.

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.