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Reuters: A Russian air attack on Ukraine damaged several facilities in a strike targeting energy infrastructure across the country, Ukraine's military and energy officials said on Wednesday.
POLITICO: Ambassadors from the EU’s 27 member countries will meet today to discuss a new package of sanctions against Russia — and the focus will be on restricting Moscow’s profits from its lucrative liquefied natural gas industry.
AP News: Italy’s president told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can’t be solved by rewarding its aggression and peace can only come when Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are restored.
Bloomberg: The UK stepped up efforts to break Russia’s monopoly over a uranium-fuel market that’s expected to play a key role in a powering a new generation of small, factory-built reactors (archive).
ISW: Russian ultranationalists lauded the start of Putin's fifth term as a historic event and explicitly approved of the autocratic tradition in which Putin is casting himself, with one of them hailing him as "imperator," the formal title of the Russian tsars since the time of Peter the Great.
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Reuters: Ukraine's state security service said it caught two agents for Russia plotting the assassination of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other top officials as "a gift" for Putin as he was sworn in for a new term in the Kremlin on Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: At least six people, including a six-year-old girl and a 91-year-old woman, have been injured during an intense day of Russian strikes in Nikopol, in the south-east of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Reuters: Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday he was open to discussing sending a Patriot missile system to Ukraine after German appeals to European Union and NATO member states to bolster Ukraine's air defences.
POLITICO: A U.S. soldier who is detained in Russia on charges of theft had traveled there through China, and did not get U.S. government approval for his travel plans, according to an Army spokesperson.
RFE/RL: Glimpses of the life of a U.S. soldier arrested in Russia on theft charges were visible in multiple TikTok videos posted by a Russian woman who identified the American serviceman as her “husband.”
Reuters: Britain, the U.S. and Australia have sanctioned and unmasked a senior Russian leader of the notorious cybercrime gang LockBit, the British government said on Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: The Danish Foreign Ministry announced on May 7 a new 250 million kroner ($33.2 million) humanitarian aid package for Ukraine.
Reuters: Around half of the North Korean missiles fired at Ukraine by Russia have malfunctioned and exploded in mid-air, Reuters reported on May 7, citing Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office.
POLITICO: Lithuania on Tuesday announced it is tightening controls to prevent illegal vegetable imports from Russia.
Reuters: Belarus has begun checks on the readiness of its army to deploy tactical nuclear weapons, state media said on Tuesday, simultaneously with preparations for a nuclear drill being carried out by Russia.
Bloomberg: Ukraine warned the Kremlin is expanding its use of TikTok to question the legitimacy of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s presidency and undermine the nation’s morale as Russia presses its advantage in cyberspace as well as on the battlefield (archive).
Reuters: Russia and Ukraine have accused each other at the global chemical weapons watchdog in The Hague of using banned toxins on the battlefield, the organisation said on Tuesday.
Reuters: Two influential Republican U.S. lawmakers have urged President Joe Biden to prevent a French company from working on civil nuclear power projects with Russia's state-owned nuclear company Rosatom, saying doing otherwise would help fund Putin's war in Ukraine.
AFP: Ukraine said on Tuesday that one person was killed by Russian artillery fire in Sumy, an eastern border region that officials in Kyiv have said Russia could try to seize.
Reuters: Norway and Moldova on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to tighten cooperation in the energy sector aimed at securing supply in the eastern European country that is trying to end its long-standing reliance on Russia.
Reuters: Polish security agents have discovered bugging devices in a room where ministers were due to meet on Tuesday, authorities said, without revealing who might have placed them there. As a hub for Western military supplies to Ukraine during the more than two-year war with Russia, Poland has been on heightened alert for spying.
worth mentioning
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China hacked UK’s Ministry of Defence
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