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In Miami, NATO official says only Ukraine can decide what ‘just and lasting peace’ would look like

Even as several countries have offered to mediate in the search for a political solution to the war in Ukraine, including several in Latin America, a high-ranking North Atlantic Treaty Organization official insists that only the Ukrainian government can determine what it will consider “a just and lasting peace.”

Miami Herald

Putin's energy blackmail of Europe has failed, commissioner says

Russian President Vladimir Putin's attempt to blackmail Europe using energy resources has failed, but next year will still be challenging, the European Commissioner for Energy, Kadri Simson, said on Thursday.

Reuters

Factbox-Who are the three Russian scientists accused of state treason?

Three Russian scientists who have worked on hypersonic missile technology face "very serious accusations" of state treason, the Kremlin says.

Reuters

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Russian-annexed Crimea's return to Ukraine will 'happen for certain': Zelenskiy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy set up a reintegration council on Thursday to advise on the restoration of Ukrainian rule over Crimea, saying liberation of the peninsula, seized by Russia in 2014, will "happen for certain".

Reuters

OPINION - The G7 in Hiroshima is about symbolism — and resilience

If you shudder at the crippled supply chains, energy price shocks and geopolitical instability flowing from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has little on the global consequences of a Chinese attempt to take Taiwan by force.

Evening Standard

Japan, United States to continue Russia sanctions and Ukraine support, Kishida says

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has agreed with U.S. President Joe Biden to continue sanctions against Russia and support of Ukraine, Kishida told reporters as the two leaders met in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Thursday.

Reuters

Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Russian retreats reported

Ukraine's military and Russia's Wagner private army both reported fresh Russian retreats on the outskirts of Bakhmut, as Kyiv pressed on with its biggest advance for six months ahead of a planned major counteroffensive.

Reuters

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Ukraine battles Russia in Bakhmut as Zelenskyy secures more arms

What happened in the 64th week of Russia’s war in Ukraine?

Al Jazeera

World leaders land in Hiroshima for G7, with Ukraine war high on agenda

World leaders landed Thursday for a Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with Russia’s war in Ukraine expected to be high on the agenda.

France 24

Russian forces in retreat near Bakhmut, Ukraine and Wagner say

The Ukrainian military and Russia's Wagner private army both reported further Russian retreats around the city of Bakhmut on Thursday, as Kyiv pressed on with its biggest advance for six months ahead of a planned counteroffensive.

Reuters

Family who named son Putin in honour of Russian president regret it 10 years later

The Dzhurayev family moved to Russia from Tajikistan in the early 2010s and officially renamed their son when he was one-and-a-half years old to Rasul Putin

Daily Mirror

Armenian PM agrees to hold Moscow peace talks with Azeri leader and Putin - Ifax

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday he had agreed to hold peace talks in Moscow on May 25 with Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, with Russian President Vladimir Putin mediating, the Interfax news agency reported.

Reuters

Kyiv residents sleep deprived and angry after escalation of attacks on capital

Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun also said the country is ‘extremely grateful’ to the UK for its support.

The Independent UK

‘Pro-Russian neutrality’: How Ukraine sees China’s emerging role

Russia’s ally signals a desire for peace, but few are convinced that Beijing has either power or pure motivations.

Al Jazeera

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‘It’s like the USSR’: residents on life in Mariupol a year since Russian occupation

People tell Guardian of ‘primitive’ living standards, propaganda in schools and constant risk of arrest

Reuters

Russia accuses Prague of 'illegal' move against its embassy, pledges action

Russia on Thursday said a move by the Czech government to cancel Soviet-era decrees that granted the Russian embassy free use of land in Prague and other cities was illegal and pledged to take measures to defend its own interests.

The Guardian - US

Schiff ‘not backing down’ in face of Republican bid to expel him from Congress

California representative targeted after the release of the Durham report, which investigated FBI inquiry into Trump and Russia

Reuters

Kremlin says it needs to see more progress after Black Sea grain deal renewal

The Kremlin on Thursday confirmed that Russia had renewed the Black Sea grain deal for two months after achieving some results in talks which had given it "certain hopes", but said more progress had to be made to advance its own interests.

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Daily Mirror

Russian train blown off rails by 'sabotage' bomb blast inside occupied Ukraine

Footage showed how the carriages, believed to be carrying grain, were thrown off the track with eight carriages derailed and five overturned close to the village of Chistenkoye in Crimea which is annexed by Russia

The Week

Who are Russia’s allies in Putin’s war against Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin promised African nations that he would write off their debts and provide free grain in an attempt to bolster alliances across the continent at a two-day summit in St Petersburg last month.

Evening Standard

Freight train derailed in Crimea as Russia blames ‘interference by outsiders’

Photos showed carriages lying on their side next to the railway line

Reuters

Polish news websites hit by DDoS attacks

Several Polish news websites were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that the government said could be the action of Russian hacking groups, the digitalisation minister was quoted as saying on Thursday.

Reuters

Russian mercenary boss accuses regular army of leaving Bakhmut's flanks exposed

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, on Thursday accused regular Russian army units of pulling back 570 metres north of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, leaving his own fighters' flanks exposed.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin critic falls ill with fears she's been poisoned by Russian nerve agent

Natalia Arno, head of the Free Russia Foundation, claims she returned to find her hotel door was mysteriously left open and the “smell of cheap perfume” before falling ill

Reuters

Syria's Assad boosted by return to Arab fold

President Bashar al-Assad has always seen time as an ally in the Syrian civil war, along with the Iranian and Russian firepower that helped him defeat his enemies, according to sources familiar with his thinking.

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