Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said that Russia no longer sees a difference between Ukraine joining the European Union and NATO. He made this statement in an interview with the British media outlet Unherd. I think we were not very worried about the EU at that moment [at the talks in Istanbul in late March], but that changed after Mr Borrell said that this war has to be won on the battlefield .

Ukrainian refugees give firsthand accounts of ‘filtration camps’ run by Russian troops Alessandro Guerra / EPA / Scanpix / LETA A Russian soldier watches on as Mariupol residents who were sheltering on the grounds of the Azovstal steel plant board a bus to Russia According to Russian officials, roughly 1 million people have been forced to evacuate from Ukraine into Russia since Moscow began its full-scale invasion on February 24.

The representative of the administration of the Odessa region, Sergei Bratchuk, said that in the Black Sea, as a result of the actions of the Ukrainian military, the Russian logistics support ship Vsevolod Bobrov caught fire. "NV" emphasizes that the press center of the operational command "South" did not confirm this information. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation also did not report any incidents on this ship.

On the seven -kilometer road between the villages of Motyzhin and Yasnogorodk in the Kyiv region, 37 bodies who died during the presence of the Russian military in the region were found, reports The Wall Street Journal with reference to the Ukrainian police. Two other roads leading from Motzhin to the north , in the first week of the war, became the place of death of many civilians, the WSJ video said, so the villagers used to try to leave the road to the southeast to Yasnogorodok.

In populated areas near Mariupol, the area of ​​suspected mass graves has increased in recent weeks, reports Radio Liberty’s “Schemes” project. In the village of Stary Krym, the length of the territory presumably allocated for mass graves increased from 200 meters to 340 meters from April 24 to May 8, journalists believe. Trenches in this settlement were already noticed in a photograph from March 24. The area of ​​the supposed burial sites has also increased in the village of Vinogradnoye.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Already not only Kyiv, but also Western politicians say that Ukraine will win in this war. So it will be? On May 9, US President Joe Biden signed a law on the supply of weapons to Ukraine under the Lend-Lease program. This is the second time in history, when the American administration leases or gives out a long -term loan military equipment and other equipment to the allies. The first Lend-Lease program was valid during the Second World War.

The Nikulinsky Court of Moscow sentenced Kirill Anisimov, a defendant in the case of “trafficking in children” by surrogate mothers, to six years of strict regime, lawyer Konstantin Svitnev, another defendant in the case, told Meduza.

The result depends on who better cope with the two main problems - the river and the enemy artillery UKRANIAN AIRBORNE Forces Command / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta destroyed pontoon bridge over Seversky Donets. May 12, 2022 In early May, Russian and Ukrainian troops undertook offensive in the east of Ukraine-through the not-all-end River of Seversky Donets (it “leaves” from Russia and for some time flows parallel to the Russian-Ukrainian border).

Look. This is a black hole. In our galaxy Eht Collaboration, an international team of astronomers published the first image of the shadow of Sagittarius A* - a supermassive black hole located in the center of the Milky Way. Eight different telescopes were carried out in April 2017. The next five years was needed by scientists in order to process billions of gigabytes of the collected data and separate the shadow of the hole itself from a variety of noise.

Lithuania has decided to recall Eitvydas Bajarunas from the post of ambassador to Russia from June 1, Delfi reports, citing a draft government decree. From June 7, the consulate in St. Petersburg, which was closed by Russia in April, will be liquidated. In early April, after the killings of civilians in Bucha, Lithuania decided to expel the Russian ambassador and close the Russian consulate in Klaipeda.

Medusa talked with Azovstal workers. They spent more than 50 days at the besieged factory - and were able to evacuate Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta View of the Azovstal plant. May 11, 2022 The Azovstal plant remains the only focus of resistance in Mariupol. The battles for the plant go almost two months, but only on April 30 it was possible to begin the evacuation of civilians who took refuge there.

In Israel, the poet and writer Alexei Tsvetkov died. He was 75 years old. His death was reported on Facebook by the poet Bakhyt Kenzheev. “Sorrowful news. Just in the Israeli hospital, Alexei Petrovich Tsvetkov, my beloved friend and great poet, died, ”he wrote. Vladislav Sodel / Kommersant Tsvetkov reported in social networks about his illness at the end of April. He wrote that he probably has inflammation of the lungs with a negative test on coronavirus.

The Russian contractor (and a former employee of the headquarters of Navalny) told the BBC, how he got to the war in Ukraine-and how he refused to return there Anton Vergun / TASS Russian military at the Oktyabrsky village next to the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Belgorod region. February 24, 2022 In early 2022, 23-year-old Russian contractor Sergei Bokov went to the exercises and ended up in a war in Ukraine, where he spent a total of 37 days.

The first interview of Zvyagintsev after a serious illness is about the war, censorship and return to life. Key quotes The guest of the new issue "Radio Dolin" is director Andrei Zvyagintsev. This is the first interview with a filmmaker after a long illness. Medusa briefly retells this conversation in several quotes.

Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matviyenko stated that the decision on the "status" of the Kherson region of Ukraine, which is controlled by Russian troops, "can only be made by the residents of the Kherson region themselves." This was reported by TASS.