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Reuters: Trump and Putin indicated they would not attend what could be the first direct peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv in three years on Thursday.
Reuters: The Estonian Navy said it attempted on Tuesday to detain a Russia-bound oil tanker under sanction by Britain, saying it sailed illegally without a flag, but did not board it when it refused to cooperate, instead escorting it to Russian waters.
The Kyiv Independent: President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Nariman Dzhelial, deputy chair of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, to the position of ambassador to Turkey in a decree issued May 14.
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The Moscow Times: Putin has appointed a delegation of senior officials to attend this week’s negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul. Presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who led previous rounds of negotiations with Ukraine in 2022, was named head of the Russian delegation. He will be joined by Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin and Igor Kostyukov, the head of Russia’s military intelligence agency (GRU).
Durbin: As Russia continues their unjustified and unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin has introduced legislation to prohibit the United States from recognizing Russia’s claim of sovereignty over Crimea or any other forcibly seized Ukrainian territory.
USA Today: The Trump administration has levied federal smuggling charges against Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova as the Russian national fights for her freedom from immigration detention. In the lawsuit, the government asked U.S. Judge Christina Reiss to dismiss Petrova's case and deport her to her native Russia.
Mediazona: Key figures in Russia’s publishing industry, including a director of one of Russia’s leading publishers, have been detained following a series of targeted raids by law enforcement.
CNN: Severe wildfires raging in a Siberian region of Russia have engulfed more than 600,000 hectares of forest, local authorities have warned.
The Kyiv Independent: The United States is opposing President Volodymyr Zelensky's participation at the upcoming NATO summit in The Hague, Italy's ANSA news agency reported on May 14, citing unnamed diplomatic sources.
Reuters: The EU is weighing a temporary return to its pre-war trade agreement with Ukraine if a renegotiated deal is not ready to take effect when war-related tariff suspensions expire on June 5, EU diplomats said on Wednesday. The Commission proposed this transitional period would last seven months or until a new deal can come into effect.
ERR: Estonia’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian embassy’s top official after a Russian military aircraft violated the Baltic country’s airspace.
Politico: Germany will take more responsibility for Europe's defense by building the strongest army in the EU, conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in a wide-ranging speech in the Bundestag on Wednesday.
AFP: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Wednesday that there must not be any settlement in Ukraine in the form of a "dictated peace" from Moscow.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces attacked the northeastern city of Sumy on May 14 with a missile strike, killing at least three people and injuring nine, the Sumy Oblast military administration reported.
The Moscow Times: Germany has rejected the vast majority of asylum requests submitted by Russian men of draft age since Moscow launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Berliner Morgenpost reported Tuesday.
Reuters: Poland said on Wednesday it had uncovered what could be an attempt to interfere in its presidential election campaign using advertisements on Facebook that may have been financed from abroad, an assertion the social media platform disputed.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine has concluded all domestic procedures needed to launch the first cluster in the EU accession talks, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on May 14.
Reuters: The European Union must focus on a new sanctions package to suffocate Russia's economy and force Putin to end the war in Ukraine, France's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
AFP: The EU on Wednesday approved a fresh package of sanctions on Russia, clamping down on its "shadow" oil fleet, as Europe threatens further punishment if Moscow does not agree to a Ukraine truce.
Reuters: Three Ukrainians have been arrested over a plot to mail exploding parcels from Germany to Ukraine, prosecutors said, putting Europe's cross-border postal network in the spotlight as a target of suspected Russian sabotage.
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