The sanctions appear to be in response to Russia's rejection of a 30-day ceasefire that the U.K., alongside Ukraine, France, Germany, and Poland, demanded during a visit to Kyiv on May 10.
"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.
Close up of the NYPD logo on a police car. (Tim Drivas Photography via Getty Images)
One Russian-Tajik national and two Russian-Canadians have been arrested in New York on suspicion of directing a "massive sanctions evasion and export control scheme," the U.S. Attorney's Office reported on Oct. 31.
The three allegedly circumvented sanctions to export dual-use electronic components, semi-conductors, and circuits to Russia, where they had a "critical role" in producing advanced weapons systems, the U.S. Department of Commerce said.
Over the course of a year, they sent over 300 shipments of components worth in total around $10 million "to the Russian battlefield," said Ivan J. Arvelo, the special agent in charge of Homeland Security investigations in New York.
Investigators believe the suspects used front companies based in New York City to buy the electronic components from U.S. manufacturers and ship them.
Some components with same make, model, and part number as those shipped by the front companies "have been found in seized Russian weapons platforms and signals intelligence equipment in Ukraine," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
These include Ka-52 helicopters, Orlan-10 reconnaissance drones, Izdeliye 305E guided missiles, and T-72B3 battle tanks.
One of the suspects, Salimdzhon Nasriddinov, is "a Brooklyn resident and dual citizen of Russia and Tajikistan," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
He was arrested in Brooklyn on Oct. 31, along with Nikolay Goltsev and Kristina Puzyreva, two Russian-Canadian nationals who were visiting Nasriddinov.
Investigators believe that Puzyreva was in charge of the scheme's finances.
Goltsev's role was act as the intermediary between U.S. manufacturers and contacts in the Russian defense and technology sectors, who needed a particular component.
Together with Nasriddinov, he would buy the components and ship the items to Russia via "intermediary corporations located in other countries, including Turkey, Hong Kong, India, China and the United Arab Emirates."
There is evidence that the three "were aware that the electronics being exported had potential military applications," U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Nasriddinov sent a message to Goltsev on February 23, 2023, which congratulated him on the Russian military holiday Defender of the Fatherland Day.
"Happy holiday to you too my friend, we are defending it in the way that we can," Goltsev replied.
The arrests signal the disruption of "a sophisticated procurement network," said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
Elsa Court is the audience development manager at the Kyiv Independence. She previously worked as a news editor at the Kyiv Independent and was previously an intern at the Kyiv Post. She has a Master’s in Conflict Studies and Human Rights from Utrecht University. Elsa is originally from the UK.
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