Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport en-route to Kuala Lumpur International Airport on July 17, 2014. Three hours into the flight, the Boeing-777 was shot down by Russian proxy forces using a Buk surface-to-air missile above Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
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Monday, May 12
"I am grateful for the support and the readiness at the highest level to promote diplomacy," President Volodymyr Zelensky said of the phone conservation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "We share the same view on the need for a ceasefire."
The convictions mark a significant development in Britain's efforts to counter Russian intelligence operations amid heightened tensions stemming from Moscow's war against Ukraine and repeated Kremlin threats toward Kyiv's allies.
The deepening labor shortage reflects growing strain on Russia's workforce as the Kremlin aggressively recruits men for its war against Ukraine.
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"The clock is ticking — we still have twelve hours until the end of this day," German government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius reportedly said.
According to the Verkhovna Rada's website, Ukraine completed the ratification of the U.S.-Ukraine minerals agreement on May 12. President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the deal.
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"I believe both leaders are going to be there," U.S. President Donald Trump said.
"I myself have heard relatives talking: our village is being attacked, let's roll the car out of the garage, maybe they will shell it — at least we will get money. The car is old, we can't sell it," Belgorod Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
The new tranche brings total recent EU defense support for Ukraine to 3.3 billion euros ($3.6 billion), marking a significant expansion of European efforts to boost Kyiv's defense industry.
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"There is no point in prolonging the killings. And I will wait for Putin on Thursday in Turkey," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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"Russia is ready for negotiations without any preconditions," Putin claimed in an address marking the end of the three-day Victory Day ceasefire. He invited Ukraine to begin talks in Istanbul on May 15.
U.S. senators from both parties urged U.S. President Joe Biden's administration to share evidence of Russian war crimes with the International Criminal Court in a letter on March 24.
Six senators who signed the letter acknowledged the role of the ICC in investigating Russian war crimes against Ukraine.
Cooperating with international investigations is crucial so that "(Russian President Vladimir) Putin and others around him know in no uncertain terms that accountability and justice for their crimes are forthcoming," the senators wrote.
"Putin's brutality is matched only by the resilience of the Ukrainian people. Just as they need our weapons, humanitarian assistance, and support for their government, they also need American leadership on accountability for those who have perpetrated atrocities against them," the letter reads.
The Pentagon is reportedly blocking the Biden administration from sharing evidence with the ICC in the Hague gathered by American intelligence agencies about Russian atrocities in Ukraine, the New York Times reported on March 8, citing current and former unnamed officials familiar with the matter.
"American military leaders oppose helping the court investigate Russians because they fear setting a precedent that might help pave the way for it to prosecute Americans," the New York Times wrote.
According to the officials, the rest of the administration, including intelligence agencies and the State and Justice Departments, favors giving the evidence to the court.
On March 17, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian official allegedly overseeing the forced deportations of over 16,000 Ukrainian children to Russia.
According to the ICC decision, Putin and Lvova-Belova can be arrested in one of the 123 countries that are members of the ICC.
A recent UN report published on March 16 showed that Russia’s war crimes include the willful killings of unarmed civilians, as well as torture, unlawful confinement, rape, and other forms of sexual violence.
Speaking at a justice conference in Lviv on March 3, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv has registered "over 70,000 Russian war crimes" committed in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin and all his accomplices must receive lawful and fair sentences," he added.
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