Moscow and Hanoi agreed to negotiate and sign agreements to construct nuclear power plants in Vietnam, the two countries said in a joint statement on May 11.
The sanctions appear to be in response to Russia's rejection of a 30-day ceasefire that the U.K., alongside Ukraine, France, Germany, and Poland, demanded during a visit to Kyiv on May 10.
"We now know for sure that the great fire of the Marywilska shopping centre in Warsaw was caused by arson ordered by the Russian special services," Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on X. "Some of the perpetrators have already been detained, all the others are identified and searched for."
The publications' latest report covers the period of February 24, 2022 to May 8, 2025. Since it was last updated at the end of April, 2,857 additional Russian military personnel have been confirmed killed.
Hungary cancelled a meeting planned for May 12 with a Ukrainian delegation on the rights of national minorities, Hungary's Deputy Foreign Minister said on May 11, amid a deepening spying scandal between the two countries.
Three were injured in Russia's Kursk Oblast when the town of Rylsk was allegedly struck by a missile attack on May 11, local governor Alexander Khinshtein claimed.
This week, the world watched in anticipation for Russia’s Victory Day parade after President Volodymyr Zelensky commented that he could not guarantee the safety of those attending. Meanwhile, the European Union moves one step forward to banning Russian gas from the European continent. It is also revealed this week that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fallen out of step with the White House.
"(Russian) President (Vladimir) Putin... doesn't want to have a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, but rather wants to meet on Thursday, in Turkey, to negotiate a possible end to the bloodbath. Ukraine should agree to this, immediately," U.S. President Donald Trump said.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to to Antalya, Turkey, for a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting from May 14–16, where he is expected to address the war in Ukraine and push for stronger Allied defense commitments.
The aftermath of the Russian strike against Donetsk Oblast on July 11, 2023. (Source: Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko/Telegram)
Russian forces attacked 11 oblasts over the past day, injuring at least 10 people, local officials reported on July 11.
The oblasts of Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia came under attack.
In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, one person was injured, Governor Serhii Lysak reported.
As a result of Russian strikes against the Mezhova community in the Synelnykove district, a 58-year-old man was injured by a Tornado-S rocket, Lysak wrote on Telegram.
Russian artillery also targeted the Marhanets community and Nikopol but left no causalities, he added.
In Donetsk Oblast, Russian attacks injured at least five residents, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
Two people were hurt in Avdiivka, one in Toretsk, one in Soloviove, and one in Velyka Novosilka, the governor reported on Telegram.
Russian strikes also damaged multiple private houses and infrastructure objects across the oblast, he added.
One person was injured in the attacks on Kharkiv Oblast, Governor Oleh Syniehubov informed.
A 64-year-old man was injured in the village of Dvorichna in the Kupiansk district, the governor reported. Multiple private houses, farm buildings, and other objects of civilian infrastructure were also damaged across the oblast, Syniehubov added.
In Kherson Oblast, Russian strikes injured three people, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.
Russia launched 52 attacks and 297 projectiles against the oblast, targeting mainly residential areas, he added.
According to Prokudin's report, Russian troops struck an apartment building in the village of Inzhenerne, injuring elderly residents of the building.
Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He was also volunteering as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukraïner. Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.
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