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FT: Western companies including Avon Products, Air Liquide and Reckitt have remained in Russia despite saying they planned to leave after the invasion of Ukraine, as bureaucratic obstacles increase and consumer activity rebounds (archive).
Bloomberg: Telegram has become a key weapon for pro-Kremlin accounts to spread disinformation aimed at undermining support for Ukraine. More recently, Russian intelligence officers have used it to recruit petty criminals to carry out acts of sabotage across European capitals (archive).
WSJ: Russia is scaling up production of Iranian-designed surveillance and attack drones, drawing on Chinese components and an African workforce (archive).
ISW: Ukrainian forces recently made confirmed advances near Lyptsi in northern Kharkiv Oblast. Russian forces advanced near Svatove in Luhansk Oblast and northwest of Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast.
Reuters: The Russian-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine came under attack twice within three hours early on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a series of strikes near the city. Fires appeared to have broken out in both strikes. Ukraine made no official comment on either incident.
The Kyiv Independent: The Latvian government will invest around 20 million euros in the drone coalition for Ukraine this year, the public broadcaster LSM reported on May 27, citing the country's defense minister, Andris Spruds.
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AFP: Poland is set to buy 677 million euros worth of long-range missiles from the United States to boost its defence capabilities to counter potential Russian threats, Warsaw said Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: NATO allies should lift restrictions that prohibit Ukraine's use of Western-supplied weapons against military targets inside Russia, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly said in a declaration adopted on May 27.
AFP: Ukraine on Monday walked back an announcement that French military instructors would soon arrive in the country, saying that it was still in talks with Paris and other allies on the issue. Kyiv's defence ministry made the "clarification" after army chief Oleksandr Syrsky said that the first French military instructors would soon arrive in the war-battered country.
Reuters: Three people were killed and six wounded in a Russian attack on Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region on Monday, Ukrainian emergencies service and a local official said.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian troops dropped a guided aerial bomb on the city of Kharkiv on May 27, killing a woman and injuring at least 12 other people, local authorities reported.
AFP: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday excluded Russia's participation in an upcoming peace summit in Switzerland, which he said dozens of foreign leaders would attend.
ERR: Finland and Estonia are ready for more Russian hybrid attacks and will request support from the EU and NATO if needed, Presidents Alar Karis and Alexander Stubb said on Monday during an official meeting in Tallinn.
Bloomberg: European Union member states are growing increasingly exasperated by Hungary’s stonewalling of more than €6.5 billion of urgently needed military aid for Ukraine as its military struggles to fend off Russian assaults (archive).
Reuters: Poland will introduce restrictions on the movement of Russian diplomats on its territory due to Moscow's involvement in what it deems a hybrid war against the European Union, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement between the two countries on May 27. Spain has become the 10th country to sign such an agreement, together with the U.K., Germany, France, Denmark, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Finland, and Latvia.
Reuters: European Union foreign ministers decided on Monday to impose sanctions on Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service and on 19 Russians for human rights violations after the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a prison in February.
AP News: A German court convicted a military officer of espionage Monday for passing internal documents to Russia and offering more, and sentenced him to 3 1/2 years in prison.
Meduza: In an effort to bolster the ranks of its military for the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russia is actively recruiting criminal suspects who haven’t even been convicted yet, offering to suspend the criminal case against them if they agree to go to the front.
Reuters: Russia has invited Afghanistan's Taliban to its biggest annual economic forum as Moscow moves to remove a ban on the Islamist movement, a senior Russian diplomat was quoted as saying on Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: The German government will provide Kyiv with an additional 60 million euros in humanitarian assistance, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on May 27.
The Insider: Alexey Zolotarev, whose scrap metal disposal company Translom enjoys an exclusive contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense, has been revealed to be a citizen of the European Union.
AP News: Defense officials in NATO member Poland on Monday presented a plan to strengthen anti-drone surveillance and on-ground military defense through a system of fortifications and barriers along about 700 km of its eastern border with Russia and Russian ally Belarus.
The Kyiv Independent: A long-range drone operated by Ukraine's military intelligence attacked early-warning Voronezh M radar in Russia's Orsk city in Orenburg Oblast on May 26. For the first time since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine attacked facilities in Orsk, some 1,800 km from the drone's launch location.
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