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Putin announced a ceasefire for 8-9 May ahead of Victory Day celebrations on Saturday. Kyiv had earlier called for an indefinite truce, starting 6 May. Russia has warned Ukraine not to try to attack
Putin, while implicitly or explicitly criticising Ukraine's leader for not signing up to a ceasefire. A "solution" has yet to materialise. In the meantime, Zelensky has focussed on bolstering Ukraine where he can. Opportunism
striking joint protest at this year's Venice Biennale, as Russia returns to the prestigious arts fair for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The activists swarmed through the gardens
response after Russian strike kills 24 in Kyiv Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says [strikes](/news/2026/5/14/russia-launches-hundreds-more-drones-at-ukraine-killing-three-people) targeting Russia’s oil industry and military production facilities are “entirely justified” after Moscow flattened an apartment block in Kyiv
Ukrainian drone strikes. Ukraine has recently demonstrated its ability to penetrate Moscow’s dense air defence systems: on Monday morning, a drone struck a high-rise apartment building just a few miles from the Kremlin
Ukrainian denials, an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council and vows of retribution by the Kremlin. The town of Starobilsk is in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine: in the Luhansk region which Moscow claims
responsibility for the strike on the student dorm, saying it had struck an elite drone command unit. Since then, Russia has also heavily targeted Kyiv and its surrounding areas with massive missile and drone attacks
strike Sevastopol museum and key Russian oil refineries Ukrainian drones have struck a historic museum in Russia-annexed Sevastopol in Crimea, igniting a roof fire, as Russian authorities slashed nighttime train schedules amid intensifying
response to US and Israeli strikes, in order to ease pressure on global crude oil prices. On April 13, it renewed the waiver to May 16. The waiver does not seem to have helped Russia
Putin since the 2022 invasion, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has [called for face-to-face negotiations](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/04/zelenskyy-calls-for-face-to-face-negotiations-letter-putin-ukraine-russia-trump). Acknowledging shifting US priorities while Washington remained focused on the Iran war, the Ukrainian president noted it would