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Latest Russia-Ukraine updates: Finland, Sweden to apply to NATO

News from May 15: Finland, Sweden announce decision to apply for NATO membership, setting aside decades of neutrality.

Al Jazeera

Turkey blasts Swedish, Finnish support for rebels at NATO meeting

Turkey’s foreign minister described Swedish and Finnish support for Kurdish rebels as ‘unacceptable and outrageous’.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine appears to drive Russians from Kharkiv; Republicans meet Zelenskyy

LVIV, Ukraine — Russian troops appeared to be drawing back from the outskirts of Ukraine’s second-largest city Saturday even as fighting continued to rage in other parts of the embattled nation and senior Ukrainian officials predicted a “new, long-term phase” of conflict to last through much of the summer.

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How the arrival of the Amadea superyacht wedged Fiji between a Russian oligarch and the United States government

Seizing the opulent superyachts of Vladimir Putin's nearest and dearest is a move designed to cut off the Russian leader from his wealthy friends, but in the case of the Amadea, it's the tiny island nation of Fiji that's wearing the cost.

ABC News

Finland downplays Turkey’s NATO concerns, informs Russia of plan

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto phoned Russian President Vladimir Putin to say the Nordic country plans to seek NATO membership in the near future and downplayed concerns Turkey may block Finland and its Nordic neighbor Sweden from joining the military alliance.

Tribune News Service

‘Things are still not safe’: Locals fear returning to scarred villages of Kharkiv despite Russian retreat

Though Russian forces have been pushed back from Kharkiv, families who fled their villages under threat of rape and death are yet to return, finds Kim Sengupta

The Independent UK

Moscow set to call referendum on Mariupol joining Russia, says Ukraine

Kremlin poised to hold referendum in ruined city in bid to secure grip on the region

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Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for saying GOP visit to Kyiv proves Ukraine isn’t dangerous

Georgia rep has voted down most Ukraine bills

The Independent UK

The Russian bank, the Bruce Willis ad and the $900m sanctions battle

Ministers warned that millions owed after alleged fraud by ex bosses of National Bank Trust could help fund Putin’s war effort

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian gold medallist shooter, 22, warns Putin's forces they 'won't have a chance'

Ukrainian gold medal shooter Kristina Dmitrenko now wants to change her focus and is eyeing a new target after joining forces in the frontline and using her shooting skills against Russia

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin warns Finland that swapping neutrality for NATO is a mistake

Russia's President tells his Finnish counterpart that ditching neutrality and joining NATO would be a mistake that could damage relations between their two countries.

ABC News

Hungary's new president condemns Putin's 'aggression', plans trip to Warsaw

Hungary's President Katalin Novak at her inauguration ceremony on Saturday condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and said her first trip would take her to Poland, in an apparent gesture to mend relations with Warsaw.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin warns Finland joining NATO is a 'mistake' and will be 'security threat'

The two countries said their presidents spoke by phone two days after Finland declared its intention to join NATO with Sweden expected to follow quickly after

Daily Mirror

West must not lift sanctions on Maduro, says Venezuelan opposition

Helping president would hand victory to autocratic alliance led by Russia, warns deputy foreign minister

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Russia’s Black Sea blockade pushing millions towards famine, G7 says

Foreign ministers call for action to allow export of Ukrainian grain, as Kyiv claims Russian withdrawal from second-largest city

Evening Standard

Finland’s president tells Vladimir Putin: We will apply to join Nato

Mr Putin told his Finnish counterpart that ditching neutrality and joining Nato would be a ‘mistake’

Reuters

Putin tells Finland that swapping neutrality for NATO is a mistake

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto on Saturday that ditching neutrality and joining NATO would be a mistake that could damage relations between their two countries, the Kremlin said.

The Independent UK

Finland's president to Putin: we will apply to join NATO

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto has informed his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the militarily non-aligned Nordic country that shares a long border with Russia “will decide to apply for NATO membership in the coming days.”

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Daily Record

Russia threatens to use Satan-2 hypersonic nuclear missile to strike Britain

Aleksey Zhuravlyov's threats came as senior Russian officials appear frustrated at Vladimir Putin's lack of military progress in Ukraine and outraged at Western unity against them.

Reuters

Finland's president tells Russia's Putin about plans to join NATO, Ifax cites Bloomberg as reporting

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto told Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone about Helsinki's plans to join NATO, Interfax news agency cited Bloomberg as saying on Saturday.

The Independent UK

Russia makes new threats over use of Satan-2 hypersonic nuclear missile on Britain

Kremlin official also says it is ‘absolutely legitimate’ for Russia to question existence of Finland

Asharq Al-Awsat

G7 Foreign Ministers Vow to Continue Economic Pressure on Russia

Group of Seven foreign ministers vowed on Saturday to reinforce Russia's economic and political isolation, continue supplying weapons to Ukraine and work to ease global food shortages stemming from the war. After meeting at a 400-year-old castle estate in the Baltic Sea resort of Weissenhaus, senior diplomats from Britain, Canada,…

The Independent UK

G7 warn of Ukraine grain crisis, ask China not to aid Russia

The Group of Seven leading economies have warned that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries

Daily Mirror

'Singing soldier of Azovstal' belts out song as she inspires Ukrainians against Russia

Video footage shows combat medic Kateryna, dubbed the 'Singing Soldier of Azovstal', singing at a march of Ukrainian nationalists has gone viral online

Tribune News Service

Mac Engel: Vladimir Putin has turned the NHL’s Russian tough guys into a roster of meek cowards

FORT WORTH, Texas — His name was Roman Lyashenko, and the ruling was suicide.

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