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🇳🇴🇺🇦 Crown Prince Haakon of Norway has arrived in Ukraine.

🙏 He visited wounded Ukrainian soldiers in rehab and paid tribute to fallen defenders in Moshchun.

🇷🇺 Russia is now using a new 90-kg warhead for its Shahed-136 drones with combined shaped-charge, fragmentation, blast, and incendiary effects—more advanced than the Iranian version. Previously reported variants weighed ~50 kg, Defense Express reports.

On May 20, 2022, the last Ukrainian troops surrendered at Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, a plant in the embattled city of Mariupol where Ukrainian forces held out under constant bombardment for months after the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion.

U.S. President Donald Trump stated that he would not impose additional sanctions on Russia, as he believes in the possibility of reaching agreements and making progress.

Or maybe he just needs to talk less bullshit with a murderer on the phone.

Trump has been back in the White House for four months, and we are no closer to peace in Ukraine than we were when he returned. Putin continues to reject Trump’s ceasefire proposals, while Trump keeps inviting further humiliation

💔 This is Toretsk, another completely destroyed city in the Donetsk region.

❗️Before the full-scale invasion, almost 31 thousand people lived here, and now Toretsk is a dead ghost town.

EU to adopt 17th sanctions package against Russia on May 20; 18th package underway EU ambassadors on May 14 agreed on the bloc's 17th package of sanctions against Russia, primarily targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers.

⚡️EU to adopt 17th sanctions package against Russia on May 20; 18th package underway.

EU ambassadors on May 14 agreed on the bloc's 17th package of sanctions against Russia, primarily targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers.

Update from Perevalne, Crimea 🤩🔥

A Ukrainian FPV drone with a remote-controlled explosive device targets a Russian Ka-52 Alligator helicopter in the Kursk region. While it's unclear if the Ka-52 was actually hit from this footage, the helicopter was claimed to be shot down, allegedly killing one crew member.

🇵🇱 Polish PM Tusk said that Russia did not "demonstrate goodwill" at the talks in Istanbul and there could be "very difficult days" ahead.

🇮🇹 Italian PM Meloni: “In the past few hours, it’s become clear who’s truly ready to take steps toward peace — and who clearly isn’t.”

💥👏 Phoenix warriors are very skillfully destroying the occupiers' equipment in the Belgorod region. They hit 6 trucks, 2 Bukhanka and a car.

@trtworld: Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy arrives in Ankara to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan https://t.co/Y8P7YXmRSm

@BBCBreaking: Russia confirms Vladimir Putin will not attend talks in Turkey today on ending Ukraine war
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Hungary’s last-minute cancellation of talks with Ukraine, after Kyiv’s team was already in Uzhhorod, is cowardly and calculated. Orbán isn’t defending minority rights, he’s abusing them to humiliate Ukraine and stall its EU path. This is blackmail, not diplomacy. 1/2

By sabotaging dialogue, Orbán sides with autocracy over solidarity. His tactics echo Kremlin interests. As António Costa put it: “Hungary is isolated… and 26 are more than one.” Orbán may win points at home, but he erodes Europe’s credibility abroad. 2/2

Hungary has postponed consultations with the Ukrainian delegation on national minorities, originally set for May 12. The talks, expected to be the start of regular negotiations, were planned in Uzhhorod, where the Ukrainian team had already arrived.

Russia has refused a full ceasefire — and we didn’t expect otherwise.
They will continue to stall, present new, unrealistic conditions, and pretend to want peace. This is an old tactic: delay, disinformation, and manipulation.1/2

Trump announced “terrible sanctions” if Russia refused a ceasefire. It’s time to act. Enough with the diplomatic games and selling the “successful process” to everyone. In reality, this delay is costing us lives.

🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Ukraine’s 13th Brigade of Operational Assignment Khartia has liberated the forest area north of Lyptsi, Kharkiv region — which Russian forces had mockingly nicknamed "Berlin."

🔥 Russian media reported a large-scale fire at the main plant of the KAMAZ corporation in Naberezhnye Chelny.

🚗 There were no reports of any strikes. KAMAZ takes an active part in the production of auto equipment for the Russian Armed Forces.

In occupied Kherson’s Kakhovka district, a Russian trailer carrying ammunition for front line troops was blown up.

🏹 Soldiers of the 13th brigade of NGU "Khartiya" liberated the forest massif north of Lyptsi, Kharkiv region.

The russians want to murder Ukrainians so desperately that even their wish for a ceasefire during their bloody parade of pobedobesie can’t stop them from bombing Ukrainians today. These photos are from Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, showing systemic attacks.

🇺🇦🗣️ Zelensky: Tomorrow, the organizer of the mass graves in Bucha will speak about the atrocities of the Nazis. And those who organized the blockade of Mariupol will speak about the blockade of Leningrad. There will be a parade of cynicism.

A parade of bile and lies. As if not dozens of allied states, but Putin personally defeated Nazism. As if he raised the Victory Banner over the Reichstag in Berlin with his own hands. Thank God, Ukraine has escaped from this whole swamp.

Podolsk, Moscow region 🦅👀

🔥 A powerful explosion occurred at a coal preparation plant in Yakutia, Russia. Methane exploded in one of the finished goods warehouses.

'Putin doesn't want peace, he wants Ukraine' — Pence rebukes Trump's stance on Russia Criticizing the White House, former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Putin "only understands power."

⚡️ 'Putin doesn't want peace, he wants Ukraine' — Pence rebukes Trump's stance on Russia.

Criticizing the White House, former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Putin "only understands power."

"Ukraine’s Defense Forces have already repelled Russian attempts to land forces on Dnipro islands near Kherson. Enemy plans to repeat such actions are known — and we’re ready," says Center for Countering Disinformation head Andriy Kovalenko.

🇩🇪🤔 Friedrich Merz failed to secure the absolute majority needed to become Chancellor in the first round of voting in the Bundestag.

❗️He received 310 votes in favor out of the required 316. 307 MPs voted against, and three abstained.