Eight civilians were killed on Sunday, May 1, in bombings in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, including four in the town of Lyman alone, close to the front and under the direct threat of the Russian advance. Follow the latest information live.
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The Ukrainian army said on Monday that it had destroyed two Russian patrol boats near Serpents’ Island in the Black Sea, which has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance since the start of the invasion. The Russian Raptor-class patrol boats are among the fastest shuttles in the Russian Navy, reaching nearly 90 km/h at full speed. Moscow did not confirm the information.
09:56
Denmark announced on Monday the reopening of its embassy in kyiv, in a sign of support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion, during a surprise visit by its Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod. “It is a very strong symbol of Danish support for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people to reopen the doors of the Danish embassy today,” said the latter quoted in a press release from his ministry.
The embassy had temporarily closed due to the security situation and the diplomats who had set up a temporary representation in Lviv in the west left Ukraine, Copenhagen said on February 24.
09:14
U.S. First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Romania and Slovakia this week to meet with Ukrainian refugee families, U.S. aid and military workers and embassy workers, her office said Monday.
Romania and Slovakia have taken in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of their country. This trip by Ms. Biden, scheduled for May 5-9, is the latest in US demonstrations of support for Ukraine and the countries that help it.
08:26
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicks off a three-day tour of Europe on Monday to bolster India’s ‘spirit of cooperation’ with its European partners and ‘exchange’ on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that New Delhi refused to condemn.
06:33
The continuation of the evacuations of residents of Mariupol is scheduled for Monday morning, after a first operation which removed a hundred civilians from the Azovstal factory, besieged by Russian forces in this strategic port in south-eastern Ukraine.
“On May 2, the evacuation in Mariupol begins at 7:00 a.m. (04:00 GMT). Collection point – Shopping center ‘Port City’”, announced on Telegram Pavlo Kirilenko, regional governor of Donetsk, on the night of Sunday to Monday. This evacuation operation began on Saturday and was carried out in coordination between Ukraine, Russia and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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Russia is not seeking to end the war in Ukraine on May 9, celebrated as Victory Day, its foreign minister said, as analysts believed a possible end to the conflict on that date. “Our military will not artificially adjust their actions to any date, including Victory Day,” Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Italian TV Mediaset broadcast on Sunday, referring to that date commemorating May 9, 1945 and the surrender of the Nazis to the Allies, including the Soviet Union.
“The pace of the operation in Ukraine depends, above all, on the need to minimize possible risks for the civilian population and the Russian military,” he added.