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NY Times: After a sobering trip to Kyiv, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is urging the president to lift restrictions on how Ukraine can use American arms (archive).
Norway will further restrict access for Russian tourist travellers due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, blocking almost all entry, the Nordic country's justice ministry said on Thursday.
ISW: The Kremlin appears to be developing a system to legalize the status of Russia's so-called “compatriots abroad,” likely as part of its efforts to set information conditions to justify further aggression and hybrid operations abroad as “protecting” Russia's compatriots.
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The Kyiv Independent: Fifty-four delegations supported Ukraine's statement that Russia is jeopardizing global nuclear and radiation security at the International Atomic Energy Agency Conference on Nuclear Security in Vienna on May 22, the Energy Ministry reported.
RFE/RL: Two pro-Russian paramilitary organizations operating in Bulgaria should be closed because their activities violate the constitution, a district prosecutor’s office said on May 22.
Reuters: Putin has granted American Express Co the right to "voluntary liquidate" its Russian business, according to a decree published on the official website. It is not specified in the decree how and when exactly the "liquidation" process will take place.
The Kyiv Independent: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to endorse enabling Ukraine to strike targets in Russian territory with U.S.-supplied weapons on May 22.
AFP: France on Wednesday welcomed a US plan on using profits from frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine, saying it was hoping for a deal at a meeting of G7 finance ministers this week.
Reuters: Poland signed an agreement with the United States for the delivery of a $960 million airspace reconnaissance system to monitor its north-eastern borders, defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian troops destroyed a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft near Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast on May 22, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said in an operational update.
RFE/RL: Residents of Ukraine's largely Russian-occupied Luhansk region report an intense effort by Russian officers to recruit male students at universities and institutes for contract service in the Russian armed forces.
POLITICO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy aims to attend next month’s D-Day commemoration in France followed by the G7 meeting in Italy, two people familiar with the planning said.
Reuters: A Russian airstrike on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv on Wednesday destroyed a cafe, damaged a nearby residential building and set a petrol station ablaze, and local officials said ten people were wounded, at least one severely.
The Guardian: France is investigating whether graffiti painted on the wall of Paris’s Holocaust memorial last week was a destabilisation operation coordinated from Russia, French media have reported.
POLITICO: Neutral countries which aren't NATO members but enjoy its "umbrella of protection" should have to join the military alliance, Britain's defense secretary said Wednesday.
Reuters: A Russian defence ministry proposal to revise Russia's maritime border in the eastern Baltic Sea was deleted on Wednesday from an official portal after creating confusion and concern among NATO members such as Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Estonia.
RBC-Ukraine: France believes that Europe needs to assess the threats posed by Putin's regime. Russia must get out of Ukraine, including Crimea, says Julien Bayou, a member of the French National Assembly, in an interview.
Reuters: British defence minister Grant Shapps accused China on Wednesday of providing or preparing to provide Russia with lethal aid for use in its war against Ukraine.
Reuters: The Swedish government has agreed on additional military support to Ukraine totalling 75 billion crowns ($7 billion) over three years, it said on Wednesday.
POLITICO: Putin may be seeking dominance over the Baltic Sea and has his eyes on the Swedish island of Gotland, warned Sweden’s defense chief Micael Bydén.
Reuters: Ukraine has equipped some of its naval drones with multiple rocket launching systems and used them to fire at Russian positions in combat, a Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters on Wednesday.
Reuters: A Russian court ruling on Wednesday banned Austrian energy company OMV Gas Marketing and Trading GmbH from pursuing arbitration proceedings in Stockholm against the exporting arm of Kremlin-controlled Gazprom.
Reuters: A Russian attack on energy facilities in Ukraine's Sumy region overnight severed power to more than 500,000 consumers, the energy ministry said on Wednesday.
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