The European Council on Friday approved the allocation of 1 billion euros for military assistance to Ukraine. This amount will be used to purchase artillery shells. The joint agreement of the EU countries is published on its official website. The document states that NATO standard shells will be purchased - 155 millimeters caliber - and, if necessary, rockets.

On May 3, the court in Minsk sentenced the ex-editor of the opposition telegram channel of NEXTA Roman Protasevich to eight years in prison. Two other accused in the NEXTA case - Stepan Putilo and Jan Rudik, who were judged in absentia - gave 20 and 19 years in prison, respectively. They are accused of committing at least 1586 crimes.

The US Department of Justice has begun investigation against the world's largest crypto -tank Binance on suspicion of helping Russians to bypass sanctions related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to sources. According to the agency, the Ministry of Justice’s national security department checks whether the crypto officer or its officials restrictions against Russia violated it.

The surviving diversions in Russian territory - numerous subversions of railways, oil storages, military bases and airfields, and, finally, the attack of drones directly to the Kremlin - they make it necessary to suggest that the large -scale offensive of the Ukrainian troops will begin from day to day, or, perhaps, has already begun.

The founder of the so -called PMC "Wagner" Evgeny Prigozhin said that on May 10, the PMC detachments will leave positions in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, transferring them to the military military department of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The reason for the upcoming departure of PMCs with the advanced, he called the lack of ammunition and heavy losses. The video and text of the application are published in telegram channels related to Prigozhin.

Radio Liberty publishes a satellite picture of the consequences of the fire on May 3 on the basis of Tamanneftegaz near Port Taman. The cause of the fire was the fall of the drone . In the picture, a tank with fuel that suffered as a result of fire is visible. Open a window with a player We also gained access to high -resolution satellite photographs, showing the scale of damage to the oil depot in the port of the annexed Sevastopol, attacked on April 29 .

Over 600 law enforcement officials take part in the search for the attacker In Serbia, as a result of the shooting in the village of Dubon, eight people died in the city community of Mladenovats, there are children in them. Another 13 people were injured, seven wounded are in critical condition. This was reported by "Evening News".

Russian director Mikhail Khleborodov died at 57 years of life. This was announced on May 5 in Facebook by Cinema Operator Evgeny Abdel-Fatt. Khleborodov was known as the author of the first musical clips for Russian groups-he began to shoot them in the late 80s.

Josep Borrel “The West’s war against Ukraine rallied the West; Brussels have no other choice but to continue to support Kyiv,” said the Supreme Representative of the European Union on foreign policy and security, Josep Borrel. The EURONEWS correspondent in Florence talked with him. The head of European diplomacy said that the greatest task for the coming 12 months will be the achievement of a fair world in Ukraine, although the time has not yet come for negotiations with the Russian side.

Belarusian border guards check drivers and vehicles entering the border zone near the border with Ukraine, February 15, 2023 Belarus introduced temporary border control on the border with Russia, passports are checked by entering. This was reported by the publication "Mirror", the State Border Committee confirmed this information. "This is within the framework of the fulfillment of the ratification agreement on the mutual recognition of visas with Russia.

"I am withdrawing the Wagner PMC from Bakhmut, because in the absence of ammunition they are doomed to senseless death," said Evgeny Prigozhin. According to him, the mercenaries will leave the front line on May 10. Before that, the founder of the PMC recorded another video in which he yelled on the military leadership of Russia. How did you react to this in the Kremlin and in Ukraine?

The past decade began with mass rallies and trials after them, continued by the annexation of Crimea and the war in the Donbass, and ended with the foreign agency and the closure of the bureau in Moscow after the outbreak of a full -scale war in Ukraine

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The New Gazeta published a petition in support of the director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, detained on the eve of the criminal case on the justification of terrorism in Moscow. The case is connected with the theatrical production of the Finist Yasny Falcon, based on the stories of women who married radical Islamists. "We are against the directors, playwrights, artists, anyone - in the 21st century arrested for the performance.