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Putin orders troops not to storm last Mariupol stronghold but declares success

SVIATOHIRSK, Ukraine — Russia claimed victory over the battered southern Ukrainian port of Mariupol on Thursday, with President Vladimir Putin saying he had ordered his forces not to attack the city’s last holdouts sheltering in a vast steelworks but to blockade the compound so tightly that “not even a fly…

Los Angeles Times

New satellite images reveal ‘mass graves’ near Mariupol as Russia ‘attempts to storm’ steel plant

Russian troops buried civilians in mass graves to cover up their own ‘military crimes,’ mayor says

The Independent UK

Inside Ukraine's underground city: No showers, no sunlight and no peace from Putin's rockets

Kharkiv is under an intensifying assault, which has left bodies of civilians in the streets where residents are trapped without power and water, and with little food.

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Marine Le Pen seen as Putin's puppet with French voters branding election 'depressing'

Elderly voters like Denis Benoest and Grognier Huguette want to oust Emmanuel Macron from the Elysee Palace in Paris and put in his place Marine Le Pen as they welcome her controversial policies

Daily Mirror

U.S. understands Ukrainian forces still holding ground in Mariupol - State Department

The United States understands that Ukrainian forces still hold ground in Mariupol and Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim to have liberated the city is disinformation, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.

Reuters

Emmanuel Macron may be the de facto leader of Europe, but could he lose the French presidency to rival Marine Le Pen?

Emmanuel Macron's status as Europe's de facto leader, which has been cemented by the current crisis in Ukraine, certainly aligns with his ambitions. But could it cost him the French presidency?

ABC News

Prospect of Russia using nuclear arms in Ukraine fuels Finland’s Nato debate

Foreign minister Pekka Haavisto says Finns ‘on the streets’ are concerned with nuclear question

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Russia could still win in Ukraine, west warns as officials prepare for months more fighting

Putin has ‘failed’ to meet his original objectives ‘but is still in position to win,’ official says

The Independent UK

Marine Le Pen, the Rassemblement National and Russia: history of a strategic alliance

Days before the second round of the French presidential elections, far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National, RN) spelled out some of her foreign policy priorities: limit military support to Ukraine and steer clear from voting new sanctions against Russia; leave NATO’s integrated command; and relaunch a “strategic rapprochement…

The Conversation

Failure to end Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol ‘hampering Russian advance’

Western officials said President Putin may want to score a military success ahead of May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow.

The Independent UK

Putin orders army to blockade Mariupol steel plant 'so that not even a fly can escape'

Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to block off the industrial area of Mariupol so that nobody could escape. He claimed his decision was being made to safeguard the lives of Russian soldiers

Daily Mirror

EXPLAINER: Why the battle for Mariupol's steel mill matters

Russian President Vladimir Putin is claiming control over Ukraine’s seaside city of Mariupol even as its defenders are holding out inside a massive steel mill near the water

The Independent UK

Biden announces heavy artillery, other weapons for Ukraine

The aid, Biden said, will be sent “directly to the front lines of freedom.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Slash speed limit on UK motorways to save fuel and help beat Putin, Richard Branson says

Virgin Group founder calls on businesses and individuals to do their bit to reduce west’s reliance on Russian energy amid war in Ukraine

The Independent UK

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Bars Entry to US VP, Other Officials and Figures

Russia on Thursday expanded an entry ban on US officials to include US Vice-President Kamala Harris and 28 other American officials, businesspeople and journalists. The sanctions list, published by the Russian foreign ministry, included Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby, among others.…

The Guardian - UK

Russia’s Rublev accuses Wimbledon of ‘complete discrimination’ over ban

The world No 8, Andrey Rublev, says Wimbledon’s reasons for banning Russian and Belarussian players are ‘not logical’

The Conversation

Ukraine recap: why words are important – and truth must triumph over propaganda

It’s eight weeks since the Russian military rolled across the border into Ukraine, telling the world that this was just a “special military operation” aiming to free an oppressed people from what Vladimir Putin called a “gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis”.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mystery remains around Brittney Griner’s case in Russia

As extraordinary as her circumstances are, the details surrounding Griner’s case remain mostly unknown as a crucial court date approaches next month. Russian prosecutors have offered little clarity and the U.S. government has made only measured statements.

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Al Jazeera

US unveils new sponsorship programme for Ukrainian refugees

At same time, Biden administration discourages Ukrainians from trying to enter US through southern border with Mexico.

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin’s troops being ‘ritually humiliated’ in Ukraine, say western officials

Vladimir Putin’s troops are being “ritually humiliated” in Ukraine after his “strategic blunder” to invade the country, western officials said on Thursday.

Daily Mirror

Putin could still 'win' Ukraine war as troops battle in the Donbas

Western officials believe the Russian President may be able to claim victory as Kremlin troops fight Ukrainian soldiers in the east of the country

The Guardian - UK

Russian forces accused of secret burials of Mariupol civilians in mass graves

Mayor says corpses thrown into mass grave which appears to be visible on newly released satellite images

Daily Mirror

Inside Ukraine factory SURROUNDED by Russians as fears thousands may starve to death

The Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in the southern port city of Mariupol is one of the last standing Ukrainian strongholds in the city but is now totally surrounded by Russian forces

The Conversation

How Russia's fixation on the Second World War helps explain its Ukraine invasion

Russian media references to the “de-Nazification” of Ukraine to justify its invasion have placed Russia'a fascination with the Second World War in the public eye.

Reuters

Western officials say Russia can still win in Ukraine despite setbacks

Russian President Vladimir Putin could still win in Ukraine despite failing in his pre-war objectives, Western officials said on Thursday, adding that Russia had addressed some of the issues that had hindered it earlier on in the invasion.

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