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The Kyiv Independent: The United States voted against a U.N. General Assembly resolution on cooperation between the U.N. and the Council of Europe because of its language regarding Russia’s war.

AFP: Trump on Thursday said he does not hold Volodymyr Zelensky "responsible" for Russia's invasion of his country but continued to criticize the pro-Western Ukrainian leader.

The Guardian: Senior US, European and Ukrainian diplomats will meet again in London next week, the Elysée palace has said, after what a French official described as an “excellent” day of talks in Paris aimed at reviving stalled ceasefire efforts.

The Kyiv Independent: President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff of spreading Russian propaganda and overstepping his authority by discussing Ukrainian territory in back-channel peace talks with Moscow.

Politico: China is providing weapons to Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, citing information from Ukraine's intelligence and security services.

Reuters: Russian forces are trying out a new tactic of larger-scale assaults involving several hundred troops, as Kyiv girds for a new offensive push from its bigger adversary. The change signals a possible break with the tactics which Russia has leant on for over two years, sending in tiny groups of infantry to seep slowly through Ukrainian lines.

The Moscow Times: Russia’s armed forces attempted to stage a major assault in the southern Zaporizhzhia region overnight, the Ukrainian military said Thursday, adding that its troops managed to repel the attack.

WaPo: Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool artificial intelligence chatbots on key topics, offering a playbook to other bad actors on how to game AI to push content meant to inflame, influence and obfuscate instead of inform (archive).

Bloomberg: Austria’s new finance minister, Markus Marterbauer, signaled support for using frozen Russian central bank assets to provide further help for Ukraine to defend itself (archive).

Reuters: The German parliament has kept the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus off its guest list for a special sitting on May 8 marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe, a spokesperson for the legislature said on Thursday.

The Moscow Times: Moscow’s proposal to transport Russian gas via Kazakhstan as an alternative to the shelved Power of Siberia 2 pipeline has failed to gain traction in Beijing.

The Insider: In 15 years, Russia has registered only 53 criminal cases of slave labor (Article 127.2 of Russia's Criminal Code), but the scale of such exploitation appears to be 17 times as high, according to a new study.

Reuters: Finland's customs authority said on Thursday it was investigating an attempted breach of Russian sanctions in a case involving sensitive documents related to the construction of a nuclear power plant.

BBC: Russian authorities are systematically seizing thousands of homes from Ukrainian residents of Mariupol, a BBC Verify investigation has found as the city marks three years of occupation.

The Kyiv Independent: A French court has authorized the enforcement of a $5 billion arbitration award against Russia for damages caused to Ukraine's state-owned energy company Naftogaz during the occupation of Crimea.

Reuters: The Czech Republic has become fully independent of Russian oil supplies for the first time in its history, government officials said on Thursday, following the completion of capacity upgrades on the TAL pipeline coming from the west.

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