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BBC News: The UK will provide an additional £500m to Kyiv on top of the £2.5bn allocated for this financial year.
POLITICO: Europe won’t take a breather in its efforts to help Kyiv after the U.S. Congress passed a long-awaited $60.8 billion Ukraine aid package, Ursula von der Leyen insisted.
FT: Europe-based multinationals will no longer be able to offer professional services to Russian subsidiaries from June (archive).
Bloomberg: Russia’s “complete embrace” of North Korea could increase Kim Jong Un’s appetite for risk when it comes to threatening South Korea and exporting weapons abroad, as well as helping Pyongyang ignore Washington’s call to return to nuclear talks (archive).
Reuters: The U.S. is drafting sanctions that threaten to cut some Chinese banks off from the global financial system, which officials hope will stop Beijing's commercial support of Russia's military production, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Reuters: Russia said on Monday its forces had taken control of Novomykhailivka in eastern Ukraine- the second advance Moscow has announced in two days - but Ukraine's military fighting there said it was still in control of the village.
POLITICO: The Biden administration is preparing a larger-than-normal package of military aid for Ukraine that will include armored vehicles, in addition to urgently needed artillery and air defenses, according to two U.S. officials.
The Guardian: Flights in and out of Britain are among thousands that have been affected by suspected Russian jamming of GPS systems.
The Kyiv Independent: Poland cannot transfer any Patriot systems to Ukraine as it lacks reserves of its own, but will provide other forms of assistance in terms of air defense, Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters on April 22.
AFP: The United States will act swiftly to provide military assistance to help Kyiv in its battle against Russia's invasion, President Joe Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in a Monday call.
Reuters: A Russian missile strike that broke in half a 240-metre (787-foot) television tower in Kharkiv on Monday is part of a deliberate effort by Moscow to make Ukraine's second largest city uninhabitable, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
The Kyiv Independent: Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson does not rule out sending Ukraine Patriot air defense systems, the Guardian reported on April 22.
Reuters: Germany's domestic spy agency urged Berlin on Monday to give it more powers to monitor financial flows amid growing concerns over potential Russian financing of regional far-right parties ahead of European parliamentary elections.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s worst flooding in decades has submerged Soviet-era uranium mines in the Kurgan region, the investigative news outlet Agentstvo reported Monday, sparking fears that radioactive and chemical pollution could seep into the Tobol River.
Reuters: Russia has a force of 20,000-25,000 troops trying to storm the eastern Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar and surrounding villages, Ukraine's military said on Monday, describing the situation in the area as difficult.
AP News: European Union countries possessing Patriot air defense systems gave no clear signal on Monday whether they might be willing to supply them to Ukraine, which is desperately seeking at least seven of the missile batteries to help fend off Russian air attacks.
Reuters: The World Bank's private investment arm expects to finance $1.9 billion in projects in Ukraine over the next 18 months, an official from the organization told Reuters.
AFP: A Russian military court on Monday sentenced in absentia Meta spokesman Andy Stone to six years behind bars for "justifying terrorism," as part of efforts to restrict Western social media platforms in the country.
Reuters: A Russian man was sentenced to five years' forced labour on Monday for spreading "deliberately false information" about the army in a street interview with U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in which he talked about the war in Ukraine.
The Moscow Times: Two traffic police officers have been killed and one seriously wounded in an armed attack in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, law enforcement authorities said Monday.
Reuters: The European Union's next package of sanctions should include steps against a shadow fleet of tankers moving Russian oil to circumvent sanctions, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
Bloomberg: Russian oil refining is near an 11-month low as flooding hampers operations and repairs to plants affected by drone attacks slow down (archive).
Reuters: Ukraine is poised to send international bondholders a proposed plan to restructure its $20 billion in debt by early May, two sources familiar with the situation said.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine is about to face a "difficult" but "not catastrophic" situation on the front in the near future, starting from mid-May, Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said.
AFP: Poland's president on Monday said his country is ready to host NATO's nuclear arms after Russia reinforced its armaments in neighbouring Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
worth mentioning
Insight: Ukraine launches military charm offensive as conscription flags
Nearly 100 Belarus political prisoners have severe medical problems, rights group says
German building materials firm Knauf to withdraw from Russia
Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov reportedly suffering from pancreatic necrosis
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