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.
Alexander Dugin (C) talks to businessman and owner of Tsargrad TV Channel Konstantin Malofeev (L) during a memorial ceremony for his daughter Daria Dugina, on Aug. 23, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. (Contributor/Getty Images)
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) refused to comment on today's Washington Post article linking Ukrainian intelligence services to the killing of high-profile Russian military and pro-war figures in a comment for RBC Ukraine on Oct. 23.
"We do not comment on information received by the media from their sources," the SBU's press service said.
The Security Service added that it would be possible to discuss details regarding its special operations only after Ukraine's victory over Russia.
The Washington Post wrote earlier on Oct. 23, citing undisclosed sources, that the SBU and Ukraine's military intelligence, the HUR, have been responsible for dozens of assassinations against Russian targets since February 2022.
Ukrainian agencies were reportedly behind the killings of Russian Navy officer Stanislav Rzhytskyi in Krasnodar and military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in St. Petersburg.
The SBU was also allegedly responsible for the car bombing that killed Russian propagandist Darya Dugina, while her father, ultranationalist Alexander Dugin, was the intended target, the Post said.
"All targets hit by the SBU are completely legal," the Security Service's Head Vasyl Maliuk told the Washington Post, without referring to any concrete cases.
He nevertheless added that Ukraine "does everything to ensure that fair punishment will 'catch up' with all traitors, war criminals, and collaborators."
Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He was also volunteering as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukraïner. Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.
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