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ABC: A fleet of retired tanks the Albanese government pledged to Ukraine last year remains stuck in Australia, with defence figures in part blaming resistance from the United States for their delayed transfer.

Meduza: A new investigation by Novaya Gazeta Europe reveals that Russia Today, the Kremlin’s global television network, has established a network of covert projects to circumvent sanctions and continue reaching Western audiences.

Euromaidan Press: A representative of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence reported that Russian forces are strengthening their positions in annexed Crimea due to fears of losing control over the peninsula.

AFP: The leaders of Hungary and Slovakia on Monday warned the European Union against changing the bloc's unanimity rule, after some diplomats proposed the measure to circumvent Budapest's opposition to Ukraine's membership bid.

The Kyiv Independent: Putin's personal bodyguard and former commander of the Southern Military District were involved in the illegal border crossing of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, prosecutor Denis Ivanov told Ukrinform on April 28.

Reuters: Trump wants to see a permanent ceasefire to ending Russia's war in Ukraine, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday. Leavitt told reporters that Trump was increasingly frustrated with Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and both needed to come to the negotiating table to end the war.

RFE/RL: The Russian military intelligence agency (GRU) oversaw the recruitment of prisoners into assault units known as "Storm Z." It also funded the units and collected information about casualties, RFE/RL's Systema reports in its investigative documentary.

The Kyiv Independent: More than 95% of the drones used by the Ukrainian forces at the front line are made in Ukraine, Interfax Ukraine reported on April 28, citing Deputy Defense Minister Valerii Churkin.

Reuters: Greek shipowners are returning to Russia's Urals oil market as the price slides below the Western price cap of $60 per barrel, allowing them to provide transport and insurance services while complying with sanctions.

SIPRI: World military expenditure reached $2718 billion in 2024, an increase of 9.4 per cent in real terms from 2023 and the steepest year-on-year rise since at least the end of the cold war.

Defense News: Drone tactics emerging from the war in Ukraine have inspired other European countries to intensify their military-experimentation campaigns, with a new crop of testing facilities designed to test the small aircraft in war-like conditions.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine has launched Brave1 Market, an online marketplace with the latest technologies for the Ukrainian military, Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced on April 28 during the Defense Tech Era conference.

CNN: Putin on Monday declared a unilateral three-day ceasefire in Ukraine next month, a move met with skepticism by Ukrainian officials who demanded the Kremlin leader immediately accept a longer truce proposal from the United States that he has so far rejected.

WSJ: Some 100 miles east of its border with Finland, in the Russian city of Petrozavodsk, military engineers are expanding army bases where the Kremlin plans to create a new army headquarters to oversee tens of thousands of troops over the next several years (archive).

AFP: Johann Wadephul, an experienced pro-Ukraine politician from the conservative CDU, will be Germany's next foreign minister, the party said in a statement Monday.

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