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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been released to convalesce at home, but he has a long and difficult recovery ahead of him.

NATO members France and Poland stated publicly that Ukraine was free to use their missiles to strike targets within Russia.

The Swedish government said Wednesday that it will donate 13 billion kronor ($1.23 billion) in military aid to Ukraine, in the largest package of assistance Sweden has so far donated.

“Our task is to use the first F-16 on the battlefield this year and in such way fortify our positions,” Zelenskyy said.

Zelenskyy and Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez signed a bilateral security agreement that allocates 1 billion euros of military aid in 2024

The Ukrainian government praised France’s “determination”, encouraging it to send soldiers to its territoiry quickly.

President’s main tasks in the NATO-member state are foreign and defense policy, as supreme commander of the armed forces.

The Group of Seven (G7) nations said they had moved toward an agreement on squeezing more money from frozen Russian assets to give Ukraine.

Western nations should end their prohibition on Ukraine using their missiles to hit targets within Russia, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said.

Ukrainian forces have secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops entered the Kharkiv region earlier this month, Zelensky said.

Ukraine’s Western backers are sending new tranches of weapons and supplies, but Russia attempts to taunt the effort.

The shooting of Robert Fico may be recognised as a terror attack after the gunman admitted he shot the PM for political reasons. 

Sustained Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid have forced leaders of the war-ravaged country to institute nationwide rolling blackouts.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected calls from French leader Emmanuel Macron for a truce with Russia during the Paris Olympics and criticised the West for seeking a swift end to the war.

A divisive mobilization law in Ukraine came into force Saturday, as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers amid the Russian offensive.

Top Russian diplomat accuses Western countries of being led by “gopniks” — violent petty criminals — as well as fashionistas.

The Senate will hold a hearing discussing providing long-range weapons to Ukraine in its war against Russia on Thursday, May 16.

Attempts to gain foothold “have been foiled,” the general staff said. It was not possible to verify the claim, the Associated Press noted.

Russia grooming groups for terror-like attacks, chief of UK eavesdropping office said, after several arrests across Europe for such activity. 

Blinken arrived on Tuesday morning, promising “assistance is now on the way” after Congress passed the $95 billion foreign aid package. 

Authorities arrested another senior Defense Ministry official, days after President Vladimir Putin replaced the defense minister.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin sacked his defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, who last year been the subject of the Wagner attempted coup.

Ukrainian troops are locked in intense battles with the advancing Russian army in two border areas, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Thousands more civilians have fled Russia’s renewed ground offensive in Ukraine’s northeast that has targeted towns and villages.

Russian forces began a renewed ground assault on Ukraine’s northeast, forcing thousands to evacuate from the Kharkiv region.

Ukraine is legislating to spring the nation’s prisons to bolster its military, as Moscow’s war grinds on and casualty lists grow.

Poland’s defense minister said his country is strengthening the metal barrier along its border with Belarus to deter illegal migration.

Russia’s nuclear forces are “always combat ready”, President Vladimir Putin said at the nation’s annual Victory Day parade in Moscow, accusing the West of warmongering while insisting his own nation is trying to keep the peace. President Vladimir Putin addressed

Ukraine detained two agents in its equivalent to the Secret Service for allegedly plotting with Russia to assassinate President Zelensky.

By taking out the power, the Kremlin aims to rob Ukrainian manufacturing of its energy, especially military plants, and crush public morale.

Putin began his fifth term after destroying his political opponents, launching a war in Ukraine, and concentrating all power in his hands.

Military is to respond to “inflammatory statements… by some Western officials” by drilling with tactical nuclear weapons, Moscow said. 

Senior Italian government officials admonished French President Emmanuel Macron for raising tensions in the war in Ukraine.

Russia launched a barrage of drones concentrated in Ukraine’s east where the situation on the front line is worsening.

Russia issued arrest warrants for Volodymyr Zelensky alongside top former Ukrainian officials including ex-president Petro Poroshenko.

The Ukrainian village of Ocheretyne has been battered by Russian forces in the Donetsk region, forcing local residents to flee their homes.