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Luxury Moscow tower reportedly hit by Ukrainian drone strike ahead of Kremlin's Victory Day Parade
The attack appears to mark one of the deepest strikes into central Moscow's residential core, having occurred approximately seven kilometers west of the city's central Red Square and three kilometers from the Russian Defense Ministry building. The Mosfilm Tower is situated in an elite neighborhood within the city, close to nearby embassies and diplomatic residences.
Pro-Russian member of EU parliament invites other lawmakers to St Petersburg
Kartheiser, a Luxembourgish politician, said on Facebook that he and "other MEPs" met with the head of the Russian Duma's International Affairs Committee, Leonid Slutsky, and other Russian politicians in Istanbul.
At least 8 killed, 86 injured in Russian attacks over previous day
On the morning of May 4, Russian forces struck the town of Merefa in Kharkiv Oblast with missiles, killing at least four people and injuring another 18.
Zelensky arrives in Yerevan for European Political Community Summit, his first visit to Armenia
President Volodymyr Zelensky held bilateral meetings with the prime ministers of the U.K., Norway, Finland, and the Czech Republic.
Helsinki raises concerns with Ukraine over drones straying into Finnish airspace
Finland's authorities reported two unidentified drones briefly entering the country's airspace near the Finnish-Russian border early on May 3. The incident coincided with an alleged Ukrainian drone strike against Russia's Leningrad Oblast.
The main problem with Ukraine's corruption prevention watchdog
Viktor Pavlushchyk, head of Ukraine's National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP), was praised for his work as an anti-corruption investigator. After his promotion, Pavlushchyk is in the hot seat. He was appointed to his current job by a commission including independent foreign experts as part of Ukraine's anti-corruption reforms in 2024 in a contest that was widely applauded. The National Agency for Corruption Prevention, set up in 2015, has a broad mandate, including determining the go
About Crimea
Russia invaded Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in February 2014 amid the deadliest days of the EuroMaidan Revolution. Around 30,000 Russian troops crossed into Crimea, taking hold of the peninsula by early March 2014. Russia has continued to occupy Crimea ever since. Crimea covers an area of around 27,000 square kilometers (10,400 square miles), roughly the same size as the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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