Ukrainian investigative outlet ZN.UA reported on May 10 that their law enforcement sources confirmed an ongoing probe by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau into suspected embezzlement, money laundering and bribery.
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Iran is preparing to send Russia Fath-360 short-range ballistic missile launchers, Reuters reported on May 9, citing Western security and regional officials familiar with the matter.
"Ukraine and all allies are ready for a complete unconditional ceasefire on land, in the air, and at sea for at least 30 days, starting as early as Monday," Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote.
U.S. President Donald Trump has acknowledged in private that Russia is difficult to negotiate with because they "want the whole thing," referring to Ukraine, the WSJ reported, citing sources familiar with the comments.
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The visit marks Merz’s first trip to Ukraine, and the first time all four leaders have travelled there together.
A notice about the airspace closure was published on the U.S. Defense Department's NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) website on May 10, as cited by Ukrainian defense news outlet Militarnyi.
"As in the past, it is now for Russia to show its willingness to achieve peace," the EU's statement reads.
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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov rejected the idea of a 30-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, claiming in an interview with ABC News on May 10 that it would be "an advantage" for Ukraine.
"Our involvement in the war was justifiable, and this belongs to our sovereign rights," North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un said. "I regard this as part of the sacred mission we must execute for our brothers and comrades-in-arms."
The number includes 1,310 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
"We have a plan B and a plan C. But our focus is plan A, the essence of which is to get everyone's support" for Ukraine's accession, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.
"(T)he presence at the Victory Parade of a country that bombs cities, hospitals, and daycares, and which has caused the deaths and injuries of over a million people over three years, is a shame," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
"According to the participants of the performances, their goal is to remind the civilized world of the barbaric actions of Moscow, which for many years and decades has systematically violated international law," a source in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR) told the Kyiv Independent.
A frame-by-frame analysis of a video taken at the location of the attack that killed 33-year-old U.S. volunteer aid worker Pete Reed in the front-line city of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, shows Reed was unarmed and killed by a guided missile almost certainly fired by Russian forces, the New York Times reported.
Reed was killed while rendering aid to a wounded woman in Bakhmut, Global Response Medicine, the humanitarian aid group Reed founded, confirmed on Feb. 3.
At the time of the attack, the exact circumstances of Reed's death were not specified but were believed to have been the result of indiscriminate shelling.
The video of the attack shows Reed and fellow aid workers helping the wounded woman beside a white van that they were using to transport humanitarian supplies. A missile then flies close to the ground and squarely hits the van, destroying it. The explosion killed Reed and wounded the others.
While it is not clear if the Russian troops knew they were targeting aid workers, the convoy around the white van that was targeted had markings that clearly signaled they were humanitarian vehicles. One vehicle had a red cross clearly painted on it, the New York Times article mentions. Laser-guided anti-tank missiles are also usually fired when a specific target has been identified.
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Russian regular forces, along with Kremlin-controlled mercenary group Wagner, have been attempting to capture Bakhmut for months as Russia tries to consolidate its grip over the entirety of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Oblast, around half of which it currently controls.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, said on Feb. 15 that Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast could be surrounded in March or April, Russian state-controlled news outlet Ria Novosti reported.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Feb. 3 that Ukraine has no intention of giving up Bakhmut.
“No one will surrender Bakhmut. We will fight as long as we can,” Zelensky said at a press conference following a historic Ukraine-EU summit in Kyiv.
Russia has launched its new offensive in Bakhmut, according to multiple sources, having consolidated its forces there.
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