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Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

Russia will cut natural gas supplies to Finland on Saturday, according to Finland’s state energy provider, amid a growing confrontation between the two countries over the war in Ukraine.

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Ukraine-Russia War: Latest News

As hundreds more Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol surrendered to Russia on Thursday, Moscow was also seeking to project control over southeastern Ukraine, where a high-ranking official declared that seized parts of the region would “take a worthy place in our Russian family.”

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

The bloodiest battle of the war in Ukraine ended in Mariupol on Tuesday, long after the city itself was obliterated, as the Ukrainian military ordered fighters holed up at a steel mill to surrender and dozens of their comrades were evacuated to Russian-held territory aboard buses emblazoned with the Russian war emblem “Z.”

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Ukraine-Russia: Latest News and Updates

In a sign of Russian forces’ struggles on the battlefield, military analysts have said that Moscow appears to be further scaling back its objectives even in eastern Ukraine, where it has recently been focusing its devastating firepower, and may be targeting a takeover only of part of the Donbas region on its border.

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

A day after Finland’s leaders declared unequivocally that the nation would join NATO, Sweden’s government signaled on Friday that it could soon follow suit, issuing a scathing report outlining how Russian aggression in Ukraine had fundamentally altered Europe’s security equation and saying that only NATO membership would offer the nation protection.

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Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

As Russia’s grinding war pulverizes eastern Ukraine and eats away at the global economy, it is also creating unintended consequences for President Vladimir V. Putin, whose aggression is giving rise to a stronger, Western-aligned security architecture in Europe, the very thing the Russian leader had hoped to weaken.

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Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

A day after Congress forged ahead with a mammoth U.S. financial commitment to Ukraine, the European Union’s continued determination to confront President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was being tested on Wednesday as E.U. ambassadors again failed to reach an agreement to ban Russian oil.

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Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates: Biden Signs Lend-Lease Act and More

A barrage of Russian missiles struck the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa overnight, signaling Moscow’s apparent effort to pin down Ukrainian forces far from the east, where it is focusing its offensive.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/10/world/ukraine-russia-war-news

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Russia-Ukraine Live Updates: Putin Defends His War

Against a backdrop of armored vehicles and soldiers in regalia, President Vladimir V. Putin hailed Russia’s army for “fighting for the Motherland,” delivering a defiant speech at the start of the annual Victory Day commemorations on Monday that falsely depicted his invasion of Ukraine as an extension of the struggle against Nazism in Europe.