Military intelligence denies Russia's claim that Ukrainian pilot defected

The report describes the trend as a "deeply troubling trajectory in the war," finding a sustained pattern in which responders are repeatedly targeted while carrying out rescue operations, including after arriving at strike sites.

"Half of the FSB building is completely gone," the Crimean Wind Telegram channel wrote.

"We just don't see the point (to follow it) for the parade," a senior Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent.

"This decision by the authorities is based on security considerations," Crimea's head of Russian occupation authorities, Sergey Aksyonov, said.

The Kyiv Independent’s Martin Fornusek speaks with U.S. Congressman Mike Levin about shifting American support for Ukraine, internal political divisions in Washington, and the future of transatlantic alliances.

"I am grateful to Hungary for its constructive approach," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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.

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.

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 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.

The figure includes 1,050 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Russia launched attacks on Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast and Zaporizhzhia in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on May 5, killing at least 17 people and injuring 56 others, local authorities said.