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German ex-chancellor Angela Merkel said in the interview with spiegel.de that she doesn’t blame herself for what is happening in Ukraine.

We consider the message from the head of the IAEA Rafael Mariano Grossi as another attempt to legitimize russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, Ukraine’s nuclear power stations operator Energoatom said in a statement.

The russian occupiers began to demolish the destroyed houses in the temporarily occupied Mariupol, without dismantling the rubble and removing the bodies of the dead, the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko said in a statement.

After the Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated the elite part of the ruscist, the “ordinary” russian occupiers have no desire to go into battle, according to the intercepted phone call by the Security Service of Ukraine [SBU].

In Bordeaux, Seville and Lisbon, an exhibition of russian equipment destroyed during a full-scale invasion of Ukraine will be shown, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov said in a statement.

Giving Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership is one of the most important tasks, which requires the unification of all political and diplomatic efforts, the former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko told reporters in Rotterdam.

About 100 days of courageous resistance by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people have clearly shown that the war will end in russia’s defeat. The relevant statement was made by the Ukrainian delegation, represented by Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN Serhii

During press remarks yesterday, Joe Biden implied that Ukraine may need to cede territory in Eastern Ukraine to Russia as part of a "negotiated settlement." The statement came at the end of remarks centered around the May jobs report and Biden'

Ukrainian military officials said the continued fighting was not unexpected and eastern Ukraine would remain a focal point of Russia aggression.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine considers Vladimir putin’s decree that streamlines the process of granting citizenship to Ukrainian orphans as an attempt by the Kremlin to legalize the illegal displacement of Ukrainian children to russia, the statement issued by the Ukrainian Foreign

russia has forcibly deported 267 orphan children from Mariupol and Volnovakha to Rostov and plans to make them russian citizens, Mariupol Mayor’s Adviser Petro Andryushchenko wrote.

In its publications, the British news agency Reuters calls the russian-occupied Ukrainian territories “pro-Moscow,” Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a statement.

“Reuters, do not promote russian propaganda vocabulary. Incorrect: pro-Moscow Kherson region –

In the south of Ukraine, in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia directions, our defenders advanced by an average of 8-10 km, Vadym Denysenko, Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, said in a statement.

russian MP Alexei Zhuravlev called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz a “bastard” and threatened to force him to accept russia’s terms.

In occupied Mariupol, russians are loading stolen metal on a russian-flagged cargo ship assigned to Rostov-on-Don for the second day in a row, Mariupol Mayor’s Adviser Petro Andryushchenko said in a statement.

russia is responsible for direct and public incitement to commit genocide, and a pattern of atrocities from which an inference of intent to destroy the Ukrainian national group in part can be drawn, the new legal analysis signed by more than 30 independent experts concluded.

russia is actively spreading several new disinformation narratives that are directed against Ukraine among its sympathizers, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said during a live stream on Facebook.

Since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, people in military uniform have sent 58 tons of parcels from the Ukrainian border to russian cities through the SDEK postal system, zona.media reported.

russia's war against Ukraine didn't start in 2014. During the last 100 years only, generations of Ukrainians suffered through numerous mass executions and deportations

In addition to the “special military operation” in Ukraine, putin started another one – “special passport operation”. The russian president decided that residents of four regions of Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye – could receive citizenship in a simplified manner, writes