"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.
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"I have great hope that an agreement for a ceasefire in Ukraine will be reached this weekend," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on May 9, shortly before traveling to Kyiv alongside the leaders of France, Poland, and the U.K.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will arrive in Kyiv early on May 10.
The United States embassy in Kyiv on May 9 issued a warning that Russia could launch "a potentially significant" attack in the coming days, despite Putin's self-declared Victory Day "truce."
The sanctioned oil tankers have transported over $24 billion in cargo since 2024, according to Downing Street. The U.K. has now sanctioned more shadow fleet vessels than any other country.
(Updated: )Victory Day
The sanctions list includes 58 individuals and 74 companies, with 67 Russian enterprises related to military technology.
Washington and its partners are considering additional sanctions if the parties do not observe a ceasefire, with political and technical negotiations between Europe and the U.S. intensifying since last week, Reuters' source said.
Despite the Kremlin's announcement of a May 8–11 truce, heavy fighting continued in multiple regions throughout the front line.
Putin has done in Russia everything that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had been against in Brazil.
The Kyiv Independent’s contributor Ignatius Ivlev-Yorke spent a day with a mobile team from the State Emergency Service in Nikopol in the south of Ukraine as they responded to relentless drone, artillery, and mortar strikes from Russian forces just across the Dnipro River. Nikopol is located across from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Enerhodar.
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Russian propaganda accuses Azov of killing daughter of Russian ultra-nationalist, Ukraine denies involvement
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The Azov Regiment denied its involvement in the Moscow assassination of Daira Dugina after Russian propaganda accused the regiment of being behind the attack.
Daria Dugina, the daughter of Russian imperialist Alexander Dugin, was killed after the car she was driving near Moscow exploded on Aug. 20. Dugin has been credited with coining the term "Russian world" and has been one of the most prominent ideologues of Russian neo-imperialism, calling on the government to invade neighboring countries and kill those who oppose the Kremlin.
In an unprecedently swift statement, Russian authorities said they solved the case within 48 hours. Russia's Interfax news agency quoted the FSB, writing that a woman they call "Natalia Vovk" is behind the attack. According to the FSB, the woman is a Ukrainian citizen, who came to Russia with her underaged daughter and left the country after the alleged assassination.
After the FSB published its statement, Russian propaganda began linking "Natalia Vovk" to Natalia Shaban, who they allege is linked to Ukraine's Azov Regiment.
The Azov Regiment and the National Guard issued a statement saying that a woman with neither of the two names is linked to Ukraine's soldiers. The Ukrainian government also denied involvement in the attack. According to the regiment, the accusations spread by Russia are preparations for a staged “tribunal over (captured members of) the Azov,” by which Russia is planning on proving to its citizens the necessity "of such a trial."
In May, over 2,000 Ukrainian combatants surrendered after defending the Azovstal plant following a months-long battle for Mariupol. Many of them belong to the Azov Regiment, which played an important role in the Battle of Mariupol.
Russia has officially designated Azov as a terrorist group and Russian officials have publicly vowed to execute the Azov combatants.
On July 28, more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in what is believed to be a Russian attack on a prisoner camp in Russian-occupied Donbas.
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