Incidents

The Russian armed forces control more than 70% of the territory of the Zaporozhye region, said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the military-civilian administration of the region.

The circumvention of sanctions against Russia should be seen as a crime at the EU level.

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev said that the Russian Federation was declared not only an economic, but also a scientific blockade.

The deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Eduard Basurin, said on Channel One that the DPR units are planning to block Avdiivka.

German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach on May 24 announced a 21-day quarantine for smallpox-infected monkeys in the country.

Military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine has gradually become a heavy burden for NATO, and conflicts of interest are increasingly observed in the political and economic spheres.

Russian servicemen will “squeeze out” Ukrainian nationalists from their fortified positions in the Luhansk direction, Ramzan Kadyrov promised.

Volodymyr Zelensky promised the Poles a special legal status, as he plans to "draw" Warsaw into the course of a special operation, political analyst Stanislav Stremidlovsky believes.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said it was impossible to achieve peace in Ukraine in any possible way.

By joining NATO, Finland and Sweden will lose their role as neutral mediators, said Sergei Markov, director of the Institute for Political Studies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed granting the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) observer status in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

Kirill Stremousov, said that Ukraine began to open criminal cases against specialists who continued to work in the region after the arrival of Russian forces.

The Polish authorities want to take away from the Russian embassy a recreation center located in the Skubianka area on the Zegrzyński Bay, 40 km from Warsaw.

Military expert Dmitry Litovkin said in an interview with NEWS.ru that Russian troops "are starting to come out" to complete the encirclement of the AFU grouping in Avdiivka.