"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 Kremlin said the leaders held a detailed discussion about the Russian initiative and Erdogan expressed full support, reiterating Turkey’s readiness to provide a venue and assist in organizing the negotiations.
Erdogan told Macron that international cooperation is critical for initiating peace negotiations and the "sensitive implementation" of Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction processes, the Turkish Presidency reported.
An Ilyushin Il-76 seen above Moscow, Russia on May 9, 2021. Photo for illustrative purposes. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A Russian Il-76 military transport plane crashed in the central Russian oblast of Ivanovo on March 12, reportedly killing all 15 on board, the Russian state-run media outlet TASS said, citing the country's defense ministry and other sources.
Ivanovo is located around 350 kilometers (155 miles) east of Moscow and close to 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
The confirmation came after Telegram channels shared videos of a plane on fire in the sky. The 112 Telegram channel claimed that all eight crew members and seven passengers died in the crash.
The Russian Telegram channel Baza alleged that the plane's engine had caught fire shortly after take-off.
There is currently no information about whether there was any potential outside interference associated with the plane crash. The claims about possible fatalities have not yet been confirmed, but Russia's Defense Ministry did corroborate the number of crew and passengers on board.
Andrii Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's military intelligence, said on national television that the incidents were the "direct consequence of Russia's military aggression."
Yusov did not claim responsibility, but said that Russia must remove its troops from Ukraine if it wishes to prevent similar episodes in the future.
The Russian domestic airline industry has seen a significant uptick in accidents and emergency landings since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of war and subsequent imposition of Western sanctions.
The sanctions have prohibited the export of aviation-related technology and spare parts and banned the ability of Russian airlines or Russian-owned airplanes to use EU airspace.
The Russian state-controlled media outlet Kommersant reported in May 2023 that 2,000 flights had been recorded by planes using expired parts, according to comments by Viktor Basargin, the head of the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Transport (Rostransnadzor).
Russia's Foreign Ministry officially filed a complaint with the U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in October 2023, saying that the sanctions "jeopardized the safety of international civil aviation."
Nate Ostiller
