Pope Francis, in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, said that after the start of the war in Ukraine, he talked for 40 minutes via Zoom with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. The conversation took place on March 16. For the first 20 minutes, he read from a piece of paper in his hand, all the reasons that justify the Russian invasion. I listened to him, and then answered: “I don’t understand any of this.

Kremlin officials are coming up with ‘creative’ ways to hit back at celebrities who oppose Russia’s war against Ukraine Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS Despite the threat of military censorship, getting arrested, or facing criminal prosecution for spreading “false information” or “discrediting” the Russian military, many Russians openly oppose Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

The head of the Donetsk region, Pavel Kirilenko, said that on May 3, 21 civilians were killed in the region under Russian shelling and another 27 people were injured. “This is the highest number of casualties in one day since the Russians shelled the Kramatorsk railway station,” Kirilenko wrote on his Telegram channel. On April 8, a missile attack on Kramatorsk killed 52 people.

Russia has avoided a default on its external debt in foreign currency, writes Bloomberg. On May 3, investors began receiving dollar payments on two issues of sovereign Eurobonds that matured on April 4. According to the agency, 11 hours before the end of the grace period (ends on May 4), a $650 million payment from the RF Ministry of Finance was processed by clearing centers in Europe, after which they began to be distributed among the holders of Russia-2022 and Russia-2042 Eurobonds. ".

Russia resumed blows to the factory where civilians still remain Francisco Seco / AP / Scanpix / Leta Ukrainians who left the territory occupied by Russia in the center for immigrants in Zaporozhye. May 3, 2022 On the evening of May 3, it was announced that people who were evacuated from the Azovstal plant in Zaporozhye had arrived in Mariupol blocked by Russian troops.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he considers it necessary to carry out the second stage of the Russian “special operation” throughout Ukraine. The video message was published on his Telegram channel. The main thing is to start the second stage. And specifically to carry out a special operation not only on the territory of Lugansk and Donetsk, but throughout the entire territory of Ukraine. Why?

On the evening of May 3, several explosions took place in Lvov. Information about this was confirmed by the mayor of the city Andrey Sadovoy. to him According , due to the missile attack, three electrical substations and two pumping stations were damaged, as a result of which power supply problems are observed in some parts of Lviv. Two people were injured. The telegram channel of the head of the Lviv regional administration Maxim Kozitsky published a photo of the strike on substations.

How the war turned the lives of elderly Ukrainians. Photos According to the latest estimates of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, 220 children have died in the country since the beginning of the military invasion of the Russian army, 406 were injured. These data are updated every day. But the data on how the war in Ukraine affected elderly people do not appear in daily reports.

In Moscow, posters appeared at stops “We are against Nazism, but they are not” with quotes from famous citizens of Sweden. Photos of two such posters were published on Twitter by a researcher from the Swedish Defense University Oskar Jonsson. One of them is posted at a bus stop near the building of the Swedish Embassy in Moscow.

Russian soldiers are refusing to fight in Ukraine. Lawyer Maxim Grebenyuk is helping defend their rights. Sergey Fadeichev / TASS Russian Armed Forces infantry training. 18 April 2022. As Russia’s war against Ukraine grinds on, stories continue to appear in the press about Russian soldiers refusing to perform military service to avoid joining the fight.

Patriarch Kirill performed on May 3 the Divine Liturgy in the Arkhangelsk Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. During the sermon, he stated that Russia had never attacked anyone. He added that the Church would pray that the borders of Russia remained impregnable from the invasion of “foreigners”, and the Russians have enough strength and honor to protect these boundaries.

Ting Shen / Bloomberg / Getty Images On the evening of May 3, Politico published a draft of the decision of the US Supreme Court in a case that will determine the fate of abortion in the country. The Supreme Court has already confirmed to reporters that the document is genuine, although it “does not reflect the final position” of judges on this issue.

The Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II, which speaks of the “inadmissibility of appropriating” the victory over Nazism by Russia. The document testified to the role of the Ukrainian people in the overall victory of the anti-Hitler coalition and other liberation movements over Nazi Germany.

Oleg Tinkov again opposed the war. And he said goodbye to Russia, quoting "Woe from Wit" Valery Sharifulin / TASS Businessman Oleg Tinkov on May 3 published a post that begins with the words "Farewell, Tinkoff Bank, Farewell, Russia." Tinkov told the subscribers that he had “nothing left in Russia” and that he “takes Tinkoff and La Datcha brands from the country”, which he does not want to stain “the blood of Russian soldiers and residents of Ukraine”.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian Republic stated that on the night of May 3, an attempt was made to stage a terrorist attack at the Mayak radio center, RIA Novosti reports. In a statement released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it is said that "a drone with explosives was launched from Ukraine." Earlier, local television reported about an attempt to arrange an explosion on the territory of Mayak using an unmanned aerial vehicle.