The denunciation of the convention will take effect six months after the decision is made.
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Xi Jinping is one of 27 leaders expected to attend the Victory Day parade in the Russian capital on May 9.
Some 2020 medical facilities were partially damaged, while another 305 were completely destroyed, the ministry's statement read.
The number includes 1,200 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
"Everyone in Moscow must know that they have to reckon with us. Europe will support Ukraine," German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said.
Ukraine is considering moving away from the U.S. dollar and closer to the euro as a benchmark for the hryvnia, National Bank Governor Andrii Pyshnyi told Reuters.
The Atesh partisan group claims it disabled communication at several Russian military facilities when it allegedly destroyed equipment at a transformer substation in the village of Mogiltsy in Russia's Moscow Oblast.
When asked if he considers Russian President Vladimir Putin a "war criminal," U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent replied, saying, "Yes."
Thursday, May 8
"The Russians are asking for a certain set of requirements, a certain set of concessions in order to end the conflict. We think they’re asking for too much," U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on May 7, according to Politico.
EU eyes new sanctions over Russian hybrid threats, chemical weapons use in Ukraine, Reuters reports.
EU ambassadors began talks this week on a 17th sanctions package that targets Russia’s military-industrial complex, Moscow’s shadow shipping fleet, and related support networks.
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The repeated drone activity prompted renewed temporary airport closures across the region.
New satellite images, released by Maxar Technologies, show Olenivka prison camp in Donetsk Oblast before and after the explosion or attack that killed at least 50 captive Ukrainian soldiers. The images show that only one section of the prison was destroyed, with no visible damage anywhere around it, including to adjacent buildings.
Ukraine said that, days before the July 28 attack, Russians singled out Ukrainian members of the well-known Azov Regiment, who were captured in Mariupol and were awaiting a prisoner exchange, to the separate part of the prison building – the one that was destroyed.
Ukrainian authorities said that Russia either hit the prison with artillery or blew it up from inside. Russia accused Ukraine of attacking the prison with HIMARS, a high-precision rocket system. The prison is in the part of eastern Ukraine that has been occupied by Russia since 2014, and is under control of Russia's proxies.
Following the attack, a senior Pentagon official warned against trusting Russia's version of events.
"I would ask, you know, as you all look at this, that we apply some caution specifically to what the Russians are telling us, just because we know that they have made several claims in the past that have not been close to correct,” a senior defense official said at a background briefing, the transcript of which was published by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Russia said it will allow United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross experts at the site in Olenivka. Previously the Ukrainian government called on the UN and ICRC to investigate the attack.
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