⚡️ DPR Head says some 400 foreign mercenaries remain at Azovstal in Mariupol

⚡️ US provided Ukraine, neighbouring states with aid worth billions of dollars, Blinken says

📌 The Russian Defence Ministry has briefed the press on the Ukraine operation:

▪️ Russian high-precision long-range air-launched weapons destroyed oil refinery facilities and storage facilities for oil products in Kremenchuk, Ukraine;

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 58 Ukrainian military targets and destroyed up to 160 Ukrainian manpower;

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have carried out 19 strikes destroying four command posts, tree ammunition depots and more than 240 manpower;

▪️ "Pantsir" anti-aircraft missiles shot down one Ukrainian Tochka-U missile and 18 rockets of a multiple-launch rocket system over Chernobaeka;

▪️ Russian air defence shot down 13 Ukrainian drones near the Kharkov and Kherson regions;

▪️ Artillery units carried out 967 fire missions during the day;

▪️ In total, 141 warcraft and 110 helicopters, 566 drones, 265 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,526 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 283 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,096 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,362 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation

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⚡️ Ukraine not planning to remove aspiration to join NATO from constitution, Parliament says

⚡️ Meeting between Russia's Lavrov, Ukraine's Kuleba not being prepared, Foreign Ministry says

An official representative of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) militia describes how Ukrainian forces intentionally fire at the settlement of Novotoshkovskoye and local people from their tanks

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❗️Russian MoD: Russia’s and DPR’s Armed Forces unilaterally stop any hostilities near Azovstal since 11:00am GMT on 25 April

❗️Russia officially declares that there are no obstacles to the exit of civilians from Azovstal - Defence Ministry

Russian MoD: The humanitarian corridor near the Azovstal plant for the evacuation of civilians has been operating for 36 days (since 21 March 2022). The alleged presence of civilians in the underground tunnels of the plant is being publicly announced by the Kiev authorities.

❗️Russian MoD: “If civilians are still at the metallurgical plant, we demand that the Kiev authorities immediately give the appropriate order to the commanders of nationalist formations for their release.”

❗️Russia sees no risks of Transnistria conflict escalation, Moscow says

⚡️ Russian President Putin Participates in Expanded Meeting of Prosecutor-General’s Office Board

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⚡️ NATO to hold extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers on 14-15 May in Berlin, spokesperson says

Members of the Black Sea Cossacks raised Banners of Victory in Kherson region first time since 2014

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❗️ Putin: Russia knows names of CIA curators advising Ukrainian neo-Nazis to carry out crimes

❗️ Biden nominates Bridget Brink as US Ambassador to Ukraine

White House website announces nomination of Bridget Brink

❗️Twitter is in the final stage of talks about selling to Elon Musk, a person familiar with the matter was cited by Bloomberg News as saying. The deal might reportedly be sealed as early as Monday

⚡️ US State Department approves $165 million sale of ammunition to Ukraine, Pentagon says

❗️ Russian journo marked for assassination says murder plot linked 'directly' to Ukraine's Zelensky

A former professor at the universities of Donetsk and Mariupol, Valentina Kravchenko, was forced to live in the basement of a house in Mariupol for two months after her house burned down because of shelling. Because of her sore leg, she was unable to get access to humanitarian aid and was given food by others sheltering with her in the basement.
Now, Kravchenko is said to have been reunited with her closest relations in Donetsk thanks to local activists

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