The smoke, a traditional sign of a successful papal conclave vote, appeared after a round of balloting by the College of Cardinals on May 8.
Despite the Kremlin’s announcement of a May 8–11 truce, heavy fighting continued in multiple regions throughout the day.
The shooting occurred around 3:22 p.m. local time in Sofiivska Borshchahivka, a residential area in Bucha district, according to the Kyiv regional police.
Lawmakers urged the EU and its member states to step up efforts to hold Moscow accountable through international courts and support for Ukraine’s campaign to bring its children home.
The Kyiv Independent’s Chris York sat down with author, historian, and Russia’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9, which mark the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazi Germany in World War II, are one of the country’s biggest public events of the year. President of the Ukrainian Society of Switzerland Andrej Lushnycky who sheds some light on the things Putin would rather you didn’t know about World War II.
Washington’s involvement may also help mitigate political opposition in Europe, while giving the U.S. strategic visibility over future Russian energy flows, sources told Reuters.
This is the fourth such tranche from the bloc, which is secured by proceeds from frozen Russian assets.
At least 19 children were killed and 78 injured in April, the highest verified monthly number of child casualties since June 2022.
The agreement, signed on April 30, establishes a joint investment fund between Kyiv and Washington and grants the U.S. special access to projects developing Ukraine's natural resources.
Three women in Kharkiv, believing the truce was in effect, were injured by a Russian drone while gardening.
US opposed Ukraine's UN resolution to avoid 'antagonizing' Russia, Rubio says
Washington voted against a UN resolution condemning Russian aggression against Ukraine because it contradicted U.S. efforts to bring both sides to the negotiating table, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Breitbart News on Feb. 24.
"We didn't feel it was conducive, frankly, to have something out there at the UN that’s antagonistic to either side," Rubio said.
He defended a separate U.S.-led resolution that avoided blaming Russia directly, calling it
"very fair language" that states that "war is a terrible thing."
Rubio's comments come after the UN General Assembly vote on Kyiv's resolution on Feb. 24, the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, with 93 countries voting in favor and 18 against.
The resolution, drafted by Kyiv and supported by all EU states except Hungary, reaffirms Ukraine's territorial integrity and explicitly names Russia as the aggressor.
The U.S., Israel, Hungary, Russia, and Belarus voted against it.
On the same day, the UN Security Council passed a U.S.-drafted resolution, which calls for a swift end to the "Russia-Ukraine conflict" and avoids any criticism of Moscow's war of aggression. Out of the 15 members of the Security Council, 10 voted in favor, while the U.K., France, Denmark, Greece, and Slovenia abstained.
Suspilne earlier reported that Washington sent letters to UN member states urging them to support the softer U.S. resolution, aligning with broader U.S. efforts to tone down language on Russia in international statements.
The shift in tone comes as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes for a peace deal with Russia while increasingly criticizing Ukraine.
Trump has called President Volodymyr Zelensky a "dictator" and falsely claimed that Ukraine started the war — before later acknowledging that "Russia attacked, but they shouldn't have let him attack."
The Financial Times earlier reported that the U.S. also opposed referring to Russia as the aggressor in a G7 statement marking the war's anniversary.
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