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Reuters: A Russian drone attack overnight on Ukraine's southern city of Odesa killed an elderly married couple and wounded more than a dozen others, Ukrainian officials said on Friday.
AFP, Yahoo News: The United States will invite Putin to a G20 summit in Miami, a US official said Thursday, but Trump said he doubted his counterpart would come.
Reuters: An internal Pentagon email outlines options for the United States to punish NATO allies it believes failed to support U.S. operations in the war with Iran, including suspending Spain from the alliance and reviewing the U.S. position on Britain's claim to the Falkland Islands.
The Guardian: UK oil refinery owner moved Russian loans to offshore subsidiary where sanctions did not apply. MPs call for investigation into Essar Energy, owner of Stanlow refinery, which shifted loans from ‘Putin’s piggy bank’ VTB to Mauritius.
The Kyiv Independent: There are at least seven torture chambers holding staff of the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Roman Koval, head of research at the Ukrainian human rights organization Truth Hounds, said.
Kyiv Post: Days after images of starving Ukrainian soldiers spread widely online, Ukraine’s military has acknowledged serious logistical breakdowns on the Kupiansk front – and removed senior commanders following an internal review.
ISW: The Kremlin continues to set conditions for possible future aggression against Baltic states.
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Reuters: Jurors at the Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition said on Thursday they would not consider artists from countries whose leaders are facing charges at the International Criminal Court, an apparent reference to Russia and Israel.
United24 Media: Authorities in Moscow have оrdered schools and colleges to establish museums dedicated to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Reuters: Ukraine has developed interceptor drones that can be directed from a distance and are capable of hitting targets hundreds or thousands of kilometres away, Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on Thursday.
Politico: Ukraine and Moldova will be able to move forward with the process of joining the EU following Orbán’s election defeat, diplomats and officials said, ending a four-year stalemate over their applications.
Reuters: Four European states accused Russia on Thursday of trying to destroy the memory of Soviet leader Josef Stalin's crimes against his own people after a monument to Russians and other people executed by his secret police was dismantled in Siberia.
The Kyiv Independent: A Ukrainian economic watchdog has urged the European Union to sanction exports of raw glycerin to Russia after a Kyiv Independent investigation found that European suppliers continued shipping the chemical, which can be used to produce explosives, to companies connected to Russia's military industrial complex.
United24 Media: France and Poland are preparing to conduct joint military exercises on NATO’s eastern flank. The maneuvers will take place over the Baltic Sea and northern Poland.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian drones struck a command post of the Russian Federal Security Service in occupied Donetsk on April 22, killing 12 officers and injuring 15 others, Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert "Madyar" Brovdi said.
Reuters: A fire broke out at a Transneft oil-pumping station that delivers crude to Russia's largest export terminal in the Baltic port of Primorsk, after a drone attack on Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: Planned attacks on two schools were prevented in Kirovohrad and Odesa oblasts, involving minors allegedly recruited by Russia, Ukraine's Security Service and police said on April 23.
Reuters: The European Union formally approved on Thursday a 90-billion-euro loan to Ukraine and new sanctions against Russia, ahead of an informal summit of the bloc's leaders in Cyprus which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attended.
Ukrainska Pravda: Launch sites for jet-powered Geran-3/4 and Geran-5 drones have been identified near the village of Tsimbulova in Russia's Oryol Oblast.
Reuters: A woman living in a Russian-controlled part of southern Ukraine has been found guilty of treason and sentenced to 14 years in prison for buying war bonds to support the Ukrainian military, the court that convicted her said on Thursday.
Reuters: Britain's Prince Harry made an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Thursday and called on Putin to end the war - a week after a massive Russian aerial attack on the country - and on Trump to show leadership to help resolve the conflict.
Reuters: Russian billionaires increased their wealth by 11% to a record $696.5 billion over the past year despite the war in Ukraine and the toughest Western sanctions ever imposed on a major economy, Forbes Russia reported.
worth mentioning
“There were supposed to be ten of you, but one is already a corpse”. How the FSB is catching “Ukrainian terrorists”—story of the “Kherson Nine”
'A nightmare' — Russians in Tuapse in disbelief after Ukrainian drones bring the war home
Fitzpatrick leads charge to expose and punish Russia’s religious persecution in Ukraine
EU risks fallout with US over Trump-linked Balkans pipeline plan
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