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Dutch PM to discuss defence of Ukraine with Brazil's Lula

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he will lay out the need to defend Ukraine in the war with Russia on Tuesday when he meets Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, who has been critical of arming the Ukrainians.

Reuters

Prize-winning AP team served as world's eyes in Mariupol

Instincts about the strategic significance of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol led a team of Associated Press journalists there just as Russians were about to lay siege

The Independent UK

Leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan to meet May 14 in Brussels -EU

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are to meet next week in Brussels, the European Union said on Monday, the latest attempt to secure a durable peace accord and resolve longstanding differences over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Putin touts 'sacred' battle with West in Ukraine as Russia marks pared back Victory Day

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russians were united in a "sacred" fight with the West over Ukraine but the strains of war were evident at one of the most pared back anniversaries of the victory over Nazi Germany in decades.

Reuters

US to provide Ukraine $1.2 billion in long-term security aid

U.S. officials say the United States will provide $1.2 billion more in long-term military aid to Ukraine to further bolster its air defenses as Russia continues to pound Ukraine with drones, rockets and surface-to-air missiles

The Independent UK

Russia launches mass drone attacks on Ukraine ahead of Victory Day holiday

‘Evil that modern Russia is bringing back will be defeated, just as Nazism was defeated’ says Zelensky

The Independent UK

The West's uphill battle to sanction Russian diamonds

Russia counts diamonds as one of its top 10 non-energy exports by value.

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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 439 of the invasion

Red Cross warehouse destroyed in Odesa as Russia launches another major assault on Ukraine; 100,000 Russian soldiers have died in the battle to capture Bakhmut, says Ukraine general

The Guardian - UK

Iran hangs two men for blasphemy amid ‘alarming’ surge in executions

Yousef Mehrdad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare were hanged at Arak Prison in central Iran

The Independent UK

Four killed in Russian air attacks ahead of Victory Day: Ukraine

New wave of attacks launched ahead of Russian holiday commemorating Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine civilians injured as Russia launches wave of missile and drone strikes

Air raid sirens and explosions were heard in Kyiv and in the western city of Odesa, officials have said, just a day before Russia's Victory Day on Tuesday, May 9

Daily Mirror

Breakaway Moldovan region suggests Russia deploy more peacekeepers -RIA

Moldova's unrecognised breakaway region of Transdniestria said on Monday it wanted Moscow to bulk up its small contingent of peacekeepers because of what it called growing security risks, Russia's RIA news agency reported.

Reuters

Syria's Assad boosted by return to Arab fold

President Bashar al-Assad always saw time as an ally in Syria's civil war, alongside the Russian and Iranian firepower he turned on his foes, sources familiar with his thinking say.

Reuters

Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Wave of attacks on cities before Victory Day holiday

Russia launched its biggest swarm of drones for months against Ukraine on the eve of Russia's May 9 holiday celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, striking the capital Kyiv, the Black Sea city of Odesa and shelling other cities.

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Ukraine farms lose workers to war, complicating a tough harvest

Dutchman Kees Huizinga has faced many challenges in the two decades he has spent as a farmer in Ukraine. Russia's invasion has thrown up one challenge he never expected.

Al Jazeera

Uzbekistan’s leader calls for snap presidential election in July

New poll ordered a week after voters approve constitutional amendments allowing president to run for two more terms.

The Guardian - UK

Slovakia PM quits and is replaced by caretaker as political crisis deepens

Central bank governor takes over months before election likely to be won by a Moscow-friendly party

The Guardian - UK

As the Ukraine war grinds on, Russia is becoming a cultural wasteland

Putin once saw advantage in giving writers a degree of freedom, even to be critical. Those days are long gone, and Russia’s artists are fleeing, says writer William Fear

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The Independent UK

Ukraine shoots down 35 drones over Kyiv as attacks kill 3

Ukrainian air defenses have shot down 35 Iranian-made drones over Kyiv in Russia’s latest nighttime assault

Daily Mirror

Humanitarian crisis grows as chaotic evacuation continues near Ukraine nuke plant

Russia's evacuation has prompted an announcement from the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, who expressed growing concern about the safety of the Zaporizhzhia power station

Reuters

Ukraine moves day to mark Nazi surrender in shift towards West

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy moved on Monday to formalise the day that Ukraine marks the allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two as May 8, aligning it with Western nations in a repudiation of the Soviet past quickly condemned by Moscow.

France 24

'Fierce fighting' underway in Bakhmut as Wagner receives ammunition

Bakhmut saw fierce fighting Monday, with the Wagner group saying that they are finally starting to receive ammunition from Moscow. Earlier today, Russian forces launched a large-scale wave of strikes across Ukraine ahead of the annual Victory Day celebrations, killing four and injuring five. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meanwhile vowed…

The Independent UK

War shadows Victory Day, Russia's integral holiday

Victory Day is Russia’s most important secular holiday, and it lauds two tenets that are central to the country’s identity: military might and moral rectitude

The Independent UK

Ukraine says whole of Russia will ‘panic’ when counteroffensive begins: ‘They will suffer the consequences’

Exclusive: No one believed Ukraine would last a month against Russia. Now, Kyiv is preparing to win the war on the ground before the year is out, deputy defence minister Volodymyr Havrylov tells Arpan Rai

The Independent UK

UN urges Afghanistan's Taliban to end floggings, executions

A U.N. report has strongly criticized Afghanistan's Taliban rulers for carrying out public executions, lashings, stonings and other types of punishments since taking power almost two years ago

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