This is the fourth tranche of an 18 billion euro package, aiming to help Ukraine pay for essential public services, maintain macroeconomic stability, and restore critical infrastructure destroyed by Russian attacks.

⚡️Swiss bank freezes some accounts of Russian, Belarusian clients.

One of the largest Swiss banks Julius Baer began freezing the investment accounts of its Russian and Belarusian clients at the request of the central securities depository Euroclear, Forbes Russia reported.

Euroclear, a Belgium-based financial company that provides depository services, submitted the request to the bank in order to comply with the sanctions against Russia and Belarus, according to the publication.

Julius Baer moved to freeze all operations related to Russian and Belarusian investment accounts and isolate them from other assets of the affected clients, Forbes Russia wrote with a confirmation from the bank.

⚡️Russia claims 'defeating' Belgorod incursion without providing any footage.

Russian Defense Ministry said it stopped an alleged attack on Russia's Belgorod Oblast. The Defense Ministry provided no footage backing their claim.

⚡️Russian forces shell Kherson Oblast, killing a woman.

Russian forces shelled the village of Kozatske on May 23, killing one woman, the Kherson Oblast Prosecutor General's Office reported.

James Hetfield, the lead singer of the rock band @Metallica, visited wounded Ukrainian defenders who are currently receiving treatment in a hospital in the United States.

📷: Kelli Rohrig / Limbs for Liberty https://t.co/EmGE2Y4JH3

⚡️Russian parliament adopts bill allowing foreign passport confiscation of military personnel.

Russia's State Duma adopted a bill on May 23 that grants authorities the power in certain cases to confiscate Russian citizens' foreign passports or declare them invalid, according to… https://t.co/CDgK8TcPUC

⚡️France 'prepared' to provide security guarantees for Ukraine.

France is "prepared to enter into agreements with Ukraine aimed at providing it with security guarantees," according to a statement published by the French Foreign Ministry on May 23.

⚡️Air Force denies start of F-16 training, says preparations underway.

Ukraine's Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat refuted reports that Ukrainian pilots were already learning to fly F-16 fighter jets, saying the preparation for the program is still ongoing.

The Air Force representatives are now in those countries ready to provide the training to "study how the process will go," but pilots themselves have not arrived yet, Ihnat said on May 23, as cited by Ukrainska Pravda.

Earlier the same day, the European Union's chief diplomat Josep Borrell said several countries, including Poland, had started training Ukrainian pilots to use U.S.-built F-16 jets.

⚡️Russian state media: Gershkovich's detention extended until Aug 30.

A Moscow court extended Wall Street Journalist reporter Evan Gershkovich's detention until Aug. 30, Russian state media RIA Novosti reported on May 23.

The Kyiv Independent will publish the next part of the "Ukraine's True History" project today, May 23. The episode will talk about Crimea and why Russia doesn't have a "historical right" to annex the Ukrainian peninsula.

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⚡️'Counter-terrorist operation' in Russia's Belgorod region canceled.

Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia's Belgorod Oblast, reported calling off the "counter-terrorist operation" shortly after Russian Defense Ministry announced a defeat of the Belgorod incursion.

Gladkov didn't say what the current situation in the region was and whether residents who fled their homes could return.

The "counter-terrorist operation" was announced a day before amid reports of combat clashes with Russian partisans in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine.

Contrary to the Russian Defense Ministry's claim, the Free Russia Legion that has purportedly crossed into Russia posted several videos alleging that the fight was ongoing.

“With NATO’s mid-July summit in Vilnius fast approaching, the question on everyone’s mind is how to avoid another debacle concerning Ukraine’s prospective membership in the alliance,” writes @carlbildt. https://t.co/GLHI0lrU7l