International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva intends to visit Ukraine at a time that has not yet been determined, an IMF spokesperson said on Wednesday. Georgieva visited Ukraine in February 2023 and plans to visit again,

The International Monetary Fund’s chief plans to travel to Ukraine in a show of support for the war-battered nation, bolstering Kyiv’s ambition to secure a new loan package in the fourth year of Russia’s war.

Here are the key events from day 1,328 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

A Ukrainian travel agent has set up her own business through the Travel Trust Association (TTA) after gaining experience in an independent shop in Somerset. Olena Barabolia, who moved from Odessa to the UK through the Homes for Ukraine scheme in May 2022, founded Grand Horizons Travel in April.

Thousands of Cubans have been recruited to travel to Russia—and many have ended up fighting in Ukraine, possibly under false pretenses. A 41-year-old, multi-lingual travel agent from Russian provincial city is among those involved in a shady recruitment network,

Vladimir Putin should only be allowed to travel to the European Union if he agrees to an unconditional ceasefire, France has said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit Hungary in the very near future, where he will meet United States counterpart Donald Trump for a second summit on ending the war in Ukraine. The first – in Alaska in August – failed to result in any agreement.

Ukraine’s military has said it used British-made Storm Shadow missiles to strike a key Russian weapons facility. The Bryansk chemical plant, which produces gunpowder, explosives and rocket fuel, was hit in a combined missile and air strike.

The sanctions against oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil followed months of calls from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to hit Russia with harder sanctions on its oil industry.