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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) met with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, in what Duda described as a “crucial” meeting to discuss the ...

The latest: expected to arrive in Zaporizhzhia on Monday morning local time. Although Ukrainian officials and former president Petro Poroshenko promoted the myth, the air force warned people to not “neglect the basic rules of information hygiene” and to “check the sources of information, before spreading it.” According to the operational headquarters, there is no damage or destruction. Kherson: In this Russian-occupied southern city, Moscow appears to have instituted an Internet blackout in a bid to consolidate political control. After weeks of failed efforts, officials are hopeful long-awaited evacuations will continue at a steel plant in Mariupol. Elsewhere in the east, front-line fighting continued as Russia sought more territory in Donbas. Progress is plodding, according to the Pentagon and Western military analysts. Residents described to The Post last month Russian troops’ “scorched earth” tactics that destroyed their homes. “We were able to slow down their speed a lot,” Arestovych said Saturday in a live-streamed interview. A Russian missile strike also hit an airport runway in Odessa on Saturday, according to city officials, rendering it unusable. “The world leaders are going to have to come together somehow and figure out a way to protect these seaways. Vehicles have “children” signs placed on the windshields and white ribbons tied to door handles — pleas for military forces not to open fire. The Russian-installed government there said Sunday that Kherson will start using the Russian ruble, which Western military analysts say signals Moscow’s intention to keep its hold on the city permanently. The agreement to allow civilians a United Nations-backed “safe passage” to leave the plant comes after weeks of sporadic negotiations.

Russia-Ukraine war on Monday entered day 68 with explosions still being recorded in several Ukrainian cities. After civilians were stuck for several days in ...

As the all-out Russian war in Ukraine entered day 68 with the western nations expediting military supplies to Kyiv, US defence analysts have predicted that the additional artillery could change the course of the war in fear of significant fatalities on both sides. More than 100 civilians holed up in Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol have been evacuated on Sunday with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations, CNN reported. With the support of the UN and Red Cross, today two additional locations have been agreed upon for placing people in the evacuation convoy that will leave Mariupol,” said a Telegram post shared by the city council. Her remarks came a day after Germany's Economy and Climate Ministery stated that Berlin hopes to be completely independent of Russian crude oil imports by the end of the summer. Speaking to Zona Bianca, an Italian news channel, Lavrov further claimed that "some of the worst antisemites are Jews." It is likely that more than a quarter of these units have now been rendered combat ineffective." According to reports, the union and the ruling traffic light coalition parties voted in favour of sending military help to Ukraine. A vast majority of 586 legislators voted in favour of the proposal at the Bundestag on April 28. Citing Russian military officials, the report claimed that the Ukrainian soldiers learned about the visit and added they failed to react on time. Speaking to Zona Bianca, an Italian news channel, Lavrov further claimed that "some of the worst antisemites are Jews." The summit of the group is scheduled to be held in the Bavarian Alps from June 26 to 28. It is likely that more than a quarter of these units have now been rendered combat ineffective." As the war in Eastern Europe still continues to intensify, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is attempting to persuade several countries to reconsider their "neutral" stance towards Russia. According to the ZN.UA News, Scholz is expected to use his powers as chairman of the G7 and invite the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a special guest at the summit.

Evacuees from Azovstal steelworks due to arrive in Ukrainian-held territory; Belgorod's regional governor says no casualties reported.

In recent years, the significant delays of the supplier have continued and grown. More than 5.5 million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion on 24 February, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said. A Ukrainian Bayraktar drone destroyed two Russian Raptor-class patrol ships in the Black Sea on Monday, Reuters reports, citing Ukraine’s military leader. An unknown number of civilians and fighters remain trapped at Azovstal, whose network of bunkers and tunnels has provided shelter from weeks of Russian bombardment. The package is to be presented to ambassadors of EU governments on Wednesday. It would have been practically impossible to carry on with the project. Russia’s defence ministry has said it has hit 38 military targets in Ukraine, including ammunition depots and control centres. There’s reason to be satisfied with the owners’ decision. He told the local broadcaster DR: Kulyabin has used his Instagram account to express solidarity with Ukraine and ridicule Russia’s description of its actions there. An unknown number of civilians and fighters remain trapped at Azovstal. It’s a humanitarian catastrophe, it’s rivers of blood,” he said.

The Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol has been largely destroyed by Russian missile strikes, according to new satellite images. Meanwhile, some civilians ...

In a tweet Sunday, Kuleba said he spoke with the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy regarding "the next round of EU sanctions on Russia which must include an oil embargo." "It is just another catastrophic effect of Putin's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine," Power said on ABC's "This Week.” This comes after US President Joe Biden pressed Congress on Thursday to consider supplying Ukraine with an additional $33 billion aid package, with $3 billion allocated for humanitarian assistance and food security funding. Ukrainian prosecutors named ten Russian soldiers last week as suspected of a variety of crimes in Bucha. He added the Ukrainian government will continue to evacuate people from Mariupol on Monday, starting approximately around 8 a.m. local time. On Saturday, Pelosi led the first official US congressional delegation to Ukraine since Russia's invasion began. The plant has been subject to heavy Russian bombardment in recent weeks. Schiff said the meeting with Zelensky focused on what his priorities are for further assistance, especially as Ukrainians enter a new phase of the war with more concentrated fighting in the eastern part of the country. Schiff said they discussed a variety of issues, including ensuring he's getting the military equipment he needs and is getting it quickly. It's moving from a phase in which Ukrainians were ambushing Russian tanks -- it was close-quarters fighting -- to fighting more at a distance using long range artillery, and that changes the nature of what Ukraine needs to defend itself." "We went through a detailed discussion of the next phase of the war. Evacuees are expected to receive humanitarian support, including psychological services in Zaporizhzhia, Abreu said. They include civilians and Ukrainian forces who are running out of water, food and medicine after two months.

Russia's $40bn in bonds and the chance of a default closely watched amid country's isolation over Ukraine war.

The fact that some of its sources are frozen or under sanctions boils it down to Moscow’s willingness to pay from other cash sources, rather than its ability to do so. The Russian finance ministry announced it paid nearly $650m it owed holders of two of its dollar bonds. The US Treasury has not commented on whether that deadline will be extended. The threat of Russian default is peculiar in that Moscow is expected to have the funds to pay its obligations. With the end of a grace period on those payments looming, Russia’s finance ministry said on Friday it had paid, in dollars, $564.8m of coupon and redemption obligations on a bond maturing in 2022 and a coupon payment of $84.4m on another due in 2042. Russia’s $40bn in international bonds and the chance of default have become the focus of global financial markets since it was hit with sanctions from the United States and its allies after its invasion of Ukraine in late February.

The long-awaited rescue came as Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Ukraine and pledged U.S. support 'until victory is won.' Fuel shortages were creating long ...

He said the war was unlike what American veterans may have experienced in the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts said that Russia’s war was not just a war being waged against the people of Ukraine, but against the world’s most vulnerable. “Hero of Ukraine Stepan Tarabalka is NOT ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ and he did NOT shoot down 40 planes,” it wrote on Facebook. But they still worked to keep the myth going. “We have to make sure the Ukrainians have what is necessary to win.” Mr. Crow said the visit was meant to send a clear message that the United States was not interested in stalemates or going back to the status quo. General Gerasimov had been in eastern Ukraine for several days and arrived on Saturday during the day at School No. 12, which was being used as a base by Russia’s Second Combined Arms Army, as well as airborne forces deployed to the region, the senior Ukrainian official said. For more than a month after the war started, Russian forces lacked a battlefield commander who might guide the action from inside Ukraine, leading to poor coordination among different units and services that has contributed to the deaths of thousands of troops. Members of the elite, he claimed, are “in shock” about the war and have called him in great numbers to offer support. Ukrainian forces launched an attack on a Russian headquarters in Izium on Saturday evening, but General Gerasimov had already left to return to Russia, the official said. Last week, he sold his 35 percent stake to a Russian mining billionaire in what he describes as a “desperate sale, a fire sale” that was forced on him by the Kremlin. Long lines for gasoline have been seen even in cities like Lviv, and there are concerns about the impact of the shortages on agriculture, even in fields untouched by the war. In his nightly address, he said he cited Pelosi for “strengthening our cooperation and sincere participation in the defense of freedom.” Despite the attacks, a shortage of this scale was the first since the war began in February, she said.

Russia Ukraine War Crisis Live: Humanitarian organisations worked to evacuate more civilians from the devastated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Monday ...

But Russian forces resumed shelling the steelworks on Sunday as soon as the buses had left the plant, a city official said. An explosive device damaged a railway bridge Sunday in the Kursk region of Russia, which borders Ukraine, and a criminal investigation has been started.

The rescue operation in the southeastern port comes after weeks of failed efforts, with Russian forces bombarding the city as they battle to make progress ...

“The wise Jewish people say that the worst anti-Semites are Jews,” he said. In an interview on an Italian TV, Lavrov on Sunday defended Russia’s goal of Ukraine’s “denazification,” and said that he believed Hitler had Jewish heritage. Odesa is a key strategic port on the Black Sea that serves as the main base for Ukraine’s navy. This is very important, and I can say this is crucial moment in politics for us.” It is the third time Russian forces have attacked the bridge, the administration said. “The targets they choose prove once again that the war against Ukraine is a war of extermination for the Russian army,” he said. The suspicion is growing that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking “in the long term to remove Ukraine as a competitor,” Oezdemir was quoted as saying. “Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust,” he wrote on Twitter. “The lowest level of racism against Jews is to accuse Jews themselves of anti-Semitism.” “I’m very grateful that we can sit here and talk about our relations, about Euro-Atlantic ties and especially about the situation in Ukraine," Duda said at the meeting. Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has called remarks by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “unforgiveable and outrageous,” as the foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to Israel for a “clarification meeting.” according to Lapid’s office. The visit comes after Pelosi and U.S. lawmakers made a surprise trip over the weekend to the Ukrainian capital where they met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Pelosi is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Ukraine during the war. If Russian forces were to gain control of the area, they could cut off Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea and potentially build a land corridor all the way to the border with Moldova.

Ukraine: Heavy fighting continued in eastern Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted on Sunday that 100 people were exiting the Azovstal steel plant in ...

At a Sunday news conference in Rzeszów, Poland, Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said the U.S. commitment wouldn’t end until “victory is won.” The Biden administration has said it won’t send U.S. troops to fight inside Ukraine. “Our delegation traveled to Kyiv to send an unmistakable and resounding message to the entire world: America stands firmly with Ukraine,” Mrs. Pelosi and the members of Congress who traveled with her, all Democrats, said in a statement after their Saturday night meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president conveyed a clear need for continued U.S. security, economic and humanitarian assistance in Ukraine’s fight to repel the Russian advance, they said. RZESZÓW, Poland—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a delegation of U.S. lawmakers pledged Sunday to support Ukraine until it secured victory against Russia, after meeting with Ukraine’s leader in the capital city of Kyiv. The U.S. comments came as Moscow’s military advance stalled and Russian officials blamed saboteurs for an attack inside its territory.

Ukraine's military says Russia is redeploying some forces from Mariupol to the eastern Luhansk region as Moscow presses ahead with its refocused offensive ...

“Given all the complexities of the process, the first evacuees will arrive in Zaporizhzhia tomorrow morning. “It was a sabotage, a criminal case has been opened,” said the region’s governor, Roman Starovoit, according to Russia’s TASS news agency. “For the first time there were two days of real ceasefire on this territory. “That is not the case. Energy ministers from European Union countries will hold emergency talks on Monday, as the bloc strives for a united response to Moscow’s demands. She added that apart from the amputated limbs, some had severe wounds and sepsis on returning to Ukraine. The UN and International Committee of the Red Cross (IRCR) has organised convoys to get people out from the sprawling Soviet-era site. “I still stand by my position that I don’t support the [Wimbledon] decision. “We want this package (of sanctions) to include a very specific and clear date and requirement for all countries… Air raid sirens were activated several times overnight in the region. Kuliabin has used his Instagram account to express solidarity with Ukraine and ridicule Russia’s description of its actions there. On Wednesday, the Swedish Embassy will re-open in#Kyiv. Thank you @TobiasThyberg& team for your hard work, and to 🇵🇱 for temporarily hosting us.