Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Ukraine restarts gas distribution stations, supplies in Kharkiv

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and a delegation of GOP senators are due to visit Helsinki on Monday for talks with Finland’s president as the previously neutral Nordic nation bordering Russia seeks NATO membership. Meanwhile, Finland will apply for membership in the NATO military alliance, the country’s president, Sauli Niinisto, confirmed on Sunday, in a […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Missile hits military infrastructure in Ukraine’s Lviv region

The Ukrainian general staff said troops had managed to push Russian forces out of Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv in the northeast — a priority target for Moscow. Meanwhile, Russia dismissed Ukraine’s claim it had damaged a modern navy logistics ship in the Black Sea and showed photos of what it said was the vessel […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | U.S. House approves $40 billion in Ukraine aid, beefing up Biden request

Russia pummeled the vital port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said on May 10, in an apparent effort to disrupt supply lines and Western weapons shipments critical to Kyiv’s defence. The Italian Foreign Ministry says 63 Ukrainian orphans will be flown today from Krakow, Poland to Trapani, Sicily. The transport was organised by the Pope John […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Russia fires hypersonic missiles at Odesa after holiday pomp

 The Ukrainian military said Russian forces fired seven missiles from the air at Odesa on Monday night, hitting a shopping center and a warehouse. Washington sought to portray a united front against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan measure to reboot the World War II-era “lend-lease” program that […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Zelenskyy describes lack of medical access

Russia was still ready to provide safe passage for the civilians from the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Ukraine’s Mariupol as told by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in a phone call on Thursday, the Kremlin said. France will increase its financial aid to Ukraine this year to $2 billion from […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Russia using ‘missile terrorism’ in wide attacks, says Ukraine

The commander of the main defending force at the Azovstal steel mill in the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol says Russian troops have broken into the territory of the mill, where limited evacuations of besieged civilians occurred last week. Air raid sirens sounded in cities across Ukraine on Wednesday night and missile fire followed […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Civilians rescued from Mariupol steel plant head for safety

A senior U.S. official says the United States believed Russia is planning this month to annex large portions of eastern Ukraine and recognize the southern city of Kherson as an independent republic. Authorities say a Russian missile attack struck the Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday evening. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scheduled […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Russia not seeking to end Ukraine war by May 9: Russian Foreign Minister

Around 100 civilians evacuated from the ruined Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol were due to arrive in a Ukrainian-held city on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, after U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a surprise visit to Kyiv. Russia’s military has turned its focus to Ukraine’s south and east after failing to capture Kyiv in the […]

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