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EU ambassadors back new compensation mechanism for victims of Russia's war
Aside from Ukraine itself, no country has so far ratified the International Claims Commission, the body that will handle compensation requests from the war's victims.
Pussy Riot, Femen storm Russian pavilion at Venice Biennale
Police on the premises tackled members from the feminist protest groups who were able to make it inside the building, according to a joint press release.
Ukraine Business Roundup — On corruption in Ukraine
Editor's note: The following is the May 6, 2026 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. You wouldn't know it from Western media outlets — but the corruption scandal that prompted Ukraine's first wartime protests last summer continues to unfold. Last week, Ukraine’s leading outlet Ukrainska Pravda (meaning "Ukrainian Truth") published two videos presenting leaked transcripts of w
Breaking: Ukraine rejects Russia's 'Victory Day' truce after Moscow violates Kyiv's ceasefire
"We just don't see the point (to follow it) for the parade," a senior Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent.
'Putin only cares about parades' — Russia violated Kyiv-proposed May 6 ceasefire 1,820 times, Ukraine says
Moscow has also accused Kyiv of breaching its own ceasefire, with Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik saying that Ukraine had launched attacks on Russian-occupied Crimea and Russia's Bryansk Oblast, Kremlin-controlled news agency TASS cited him as saying on May 6.
Russian attacks kill 26 civilians, injure at least 118 over past day, as Zelensky's proposed ceasefire kicked off
Russian forces attacked Ukraine with two ballistic missiles, a Kh-31 air-to-surface missile, and 108 drones of various types, including Shahed-type drones, overnight, the Air Force said on May 6.
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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.
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