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Reuters: The governor of Russia's Belgorod region said on Tuesday the "counter-terrorism operation" in the region was ongoing, with the defence ministry and law enforcement agencies continuing "to clean up" the territory on the border with Ukraine.
ISW on the Belgorod raid: The Russian information space responded with a similar degree of panic, factionalism, and incoherency as it tends to display when it experiences significant informational shocks.
UK Ministry of Defence on the Belgorod raid: Russia is facing an increasingly serious multi-domain security threat in its border regions, with losses of combat aircraft, improvised explosive device attacks on rail lines, and now direct partisan action. Russia will almost certainly use these incidents to support the official narrative that it is the victim in the war.
AP News: President Joe Biden's decision to allow allies to train Ukrainian forces on how to operate F-16 fighter jets — and eventually to provide the aircraft themselves — seemed like an abrupt change in position but was in fact one that came after months of internal debate and quiet talks with allies.
Bloomberg: The Kremlin is piling pressure on countries like India in a bid to avoid deepening global economic isolation, documents seen by Bloomberg reveal.
AFP: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has arrived in China, Moscow's foreign ministry said, for a visit in which he will meet with President Xi Jinping and ink a series of deals on infrastructure and trade.
BBC: Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has forced the Nato military alliance to focus its efforts on securing its eastern borders. The aim is simple: to deter Russia from invading anywhere else, specifically a Nato country like one of the three Baltic states or Poland.
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NYT: Videos posted online and verified by The New York Times showed the aftermath of an attack on a border post near Grayvoron, a town in the Russian region of Belgorod, north of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Newsweek: Russia has reportedly removed its nuclear munitions from a storage facility in Belgorod following the seizures of settlements by Russian defectors fighting alongside the Ukrainian army.
Politico: Germany and Hungary quarreled Monday during a foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels over the role a controversial Hungarian bank is playing in Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to four diplomats familiar with the exchange.
Reuters: The U.S. State Department on Monday said Russian mercenary force Wagner Group is trying to obscure its efforts to acquire military equipment for use in Ukraine, adding that Washington has been informed that Wagner is seeking to transit material acquisitions to aid Russia in the war through Mali.
AP News: Russian TV went into a full frenzy of celebration as it reported Moscow’s capture of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. There were comparisons to the Red Army liberating Berlin in 1945, congratulations relayed from President Vladimir Putin and announcers emphasizing the victory by using the city’s nearly century-old Soviet name of Artyomovsk.
Meduza: Russian independent news outlet Agentstvo reports at least four suspected poison attacks on Russian oppositionists in the months leading up to and immediately following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The attacks may be linked to Russian intelligence.
The Kyiv Independent: The NATO Parliamentary Assembly has unanimously recognized Russia's crimes against Ukraine as genocide, Yehor Cherniev, the head of Ukraine's delegation at the assembly, said on May 22.
Bloomberg: Russia's crude shipments are 1.2 million barrels a day higher than at the end of 2022, calling into question promised output cuts.
Sky News: Ukraine has said its troops are still advancing on the flanks of the devastated city of Bakhmut, but that the "intensity" of their movement has decreased.
The Moscow Times: Russia has exported almost 20% more coal by sea so far this year than during the run-up and early months of its invasion of Ukraine, the Kommersant business daily reported Monday, citing an unnamed source familiar with the data.
The Insider: Despite earlier apologies, propagandist Krasovsky says he still thinks Ukrainian children should be “drowned and burned”.
Meduza: How Russia’s FSB recruits former ISIS fighters — and tries to plant them in Ukrainian battalions.
AFP: Russian forces targeted the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro overnight with 16 missiles and 20 attack drones, Ukraine's army said Monday.
NBC News: 'Our guys are here somewhere': Meet the Ukrainian unit tasked with finding fallen soldiers. Each day the grisly search becomes more difficult, with spring’s rebirth covering clues and making graves, once easy to spot during the cold, hard winter, much harder to find.
FT: Ukraine’s months-long preparation for its next counteroffensive has allowed Russia to fortify its positions along the almost 1,000km frontline.
Reuters: Ukraine reconnected the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to its external power supply on Monday after a brief outage that had left it reliant on emergency generators.
LRT: After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a number of Russian spies operating under diplomatic cover have been expelled from Lithuania. The LRT Investigation Team, together with international partners, has analysed the Russian intelligence network in Europe, revealing the identities and activities of spies who operated in Lithuania for several years.
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