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Nato will announce ‘historic’ Ukraine aid package – but hospital attack shows it’s not enough

Members have put forward hard-fought aid package but as Russia resumes large-scale attacks it may not satisfy Kyiv

The Guardian - US

Neutral Austria under pressure to get tougher on Russia

Neutral Austria has come under heavy criticism for granting visas that will allow sanctioned Russian lawmakers to attend a Vienna meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

The Independent UK

Live: EU ramps up military aid to Ukraine as diplomatic efforts intensify

The EU pledged an additional €500 million in military aid to Ukraine at a meeting of G7 nations on Friday while diplomatic efforts intensified with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin both calling on their Russian counterparts to agree to an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.…

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Russia-Ukraine war: Joe Biden expresses support for right of Finland and Sweden to join Nato– as it happened

Ukraine president ready to speak to Putin ‘but only to him’; electricity supplier RAO Nordic says decision to suspend Finnish supply is ‘exceptional’

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 79 of the invasion

UK says failed Russian crossing of river shows pressure on troops; first war crimes trial begins in Kyiv

The Guardian - AU

‘A second Afghanistan’: Doubts over Russia’s war prosecution

Russia’s lack of progress in its war against Ukraine has been noted by analysts since it launched a second phase.

Al Jazeera

US: Russia plans to annex separatist statelets in Ukraine

Moscow may annex Luhansk and Donetsk ‘republics’ mid-May and turn Kherson into proxy state, US ambassador to OSCE says.

Al Jazeera

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US Official: Russia Plans to Annex Parts of Eastern Ukraine

Russia plans to annex much of eastern Ukraine later this month, a senior US official warned, and the Mariupol steel mill that is the city’s last stronghold of resistance came under renewed assault a day after the first evacuation of civilians from the plant. Michael Carpenter, US ambassador to the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Putin has ‘significantly weakened’ Russia’s forces with his invasion of Ukraine, says UK

British defence chiefs said Russia has not succeeded in ‘translating numerical strength into decisive advantage’

Evening Standard

Scores of civilians reach safety as Russia renews assault on Mariupol plant

Ukraine say Russian forces have launched a "powerful assault" on the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, where more than 200 civilians are still holed up with Ukrainian fighters, according to the city's mayor. Humanitarian workers say around 100 civilians have successfully been evacuated from the plant and are now in…

France 24

US official: Russia plans to annex parts of eastern Ukraine

A senior U.S. official is warning that Russia plans to annex large portions of eastern Ukraine later this month

The Independent UK

Macron declines to follow Biden and call Russian acts in Ukraine ‘genocide’

Biden had accused Moscow of genocide but French president says ‘escalation of words’ will not bring peace

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