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Russia Presses Battle for Eastern Ukraine, Claims Key City Surrounded

Russian forces engaged in an all-out battle in eastern Ukraine have captured the strategic town of Lyman and surrounded a key industrial center, Moscow has claimed. But a Ukrainian official has denied that the city of Severodonetsk -- the focus of weeks of fierce fighting -- has been encircled, saying…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia takes small cities, aims to widen east Ukraine battle

Russia claims to have overrun a key rail hub in Ukraine while its troops fight defenders in the streets of another eastern city

The Independent UK

EU spares pipeline oil from Russian embargo plan to break logjam

The European Union proposed banning seaborne oil from Russia while delaying restrictions on imports from a key pipeline in an effort to satisfy Hungarian objections and clinch an agreement on a stalled sanctions package that would target Moscow for its war in Ukraine.

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Russia-Ukraine live: Zelenskyy visits Kharkiv, explosions heard

Ukrainian leaders visits troops on the front lines in the northeastern Kharkiv region.

Al Jazeera

Putin says Russia ‘ready’ to allow Ukraine grain exports

Kyiv has been unable to export grain supplies due to Russia’s invasion, which has sent global food prices soaring.

Al Jazeera

In Finland, memories of a bitter war with Moscow never faded. Some fear history will repeat itself

Finland plans to join NATO, but beneath the surface of the famously neutral nation is a country scarred by painful memories of war, and a fear of history repeating itself.

ABC News

Pro-Moscow Kherson official sees decision 'towards next year' on joining Russia

A senior pro-Russian official in the occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson told Reuters on Saturday that nearby fighting could affect the timing of its formal bid to join Russia and a decision was likely "towards next year".

Reuters

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Why did Russia invade Ukraine? The conflict explained

Vladimir Putin’s military assault continues in face of near-unanimous international condemnation

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin accused of staging hospital visit as patient looks strangely familiar

One of the 'patients' Vladimir Putin spoke to at a military hospital in Moscow appeared to be the same 'factory worker' that he was pictured with at a previous meeting, according to 'counter propaganda' expert Adam Rang

Daily Mirror

‘We can’t live with people who support Putin’s war’: the TV chief who fled Russia

When journalists faced jail for reporting on Ukraine, Viktor Muchnik closed down his Siberian TV station and left for Armenia

The Guardian - UK

Moscow-led Ukrainian Orthodox Church breaks ties with Russia

A branch of Ukraine's Orthodox Church that remained loyal to Moscow after a 2019 schism has said it will break with the Russian church over the country's invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters

Ukraine aide says any Moscow deal not worth 'broken penny', Zelenskiy says Russia officials powerless

Ukrainian presidential adviser and peace talks negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said on Saturday that any agreement with Russia could not be trusted, adding the only way to stop Moscow's invasion was by force.

Reuters

Biden says Putin trying to ‘wipe out’ Ukrainian culture, as prospect of retreat looms in east

US president says Putin trying to eliminate people’s identity, as governor of Luhansk says retreat in Sievierodonetsk may be needed to avoid becoming surrounded.

The Guardian - AU

'Message to the world' - Lithuanians fundraise to buy drone for Ukraine

(This fixes dollar conversion rate in paragraph 2 in May 27 story.)

Reuters

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Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 27)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Moscow gaining the ‘upper hand’ in Donbas … the horrors endured by Mariupol’s survivors … Russia’s use of cluster bombs and unguided missiles

Reuters

Ukraine nuclear inspectorate accuses IAEA of falling for Russian propaganda

Ukraine's state nuclear inspectorate on Friday accused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of falling for Russian propaganda and demanded it back efforts by Kyiv to expel Moscow's forces from a major power plant.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Putin Says He Is Ready to Deliver Gas, Discuss Prisoner Swap

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him on Friday that Moscow would meet its natural gas delivery commitments to Austria and was ready to discuss a prisoner swap with Ukraine. Nehammer made the comments to reporters after the two leaders held a 45-minute telephone call that…

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Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin has 'zip in his step' and is more confident after surgery, says expert

Vladimir Putin, 69, met with Russian soldiers wounded during his so-called "special operation" in Ukraine at a Moscow military facility yesterday amid reports the tyrant is recovering from cancer surgery

Reuters

Putin says he is ready to deliver gas, discuss prisoner swap - Austria

Reuters

EU may clinch summit deal to embargo Russian oil shipments

EU countries scrambled on Friday to reach a deal that would embargo seaborne deliveries of Russian oil but still allow deliveries by pipeline, a compromise to win over Hungary and unblock new sanctions against Moscow, officials said.

Reuters

How a Russian billionaire shielded assets from European sanctions

(This May 27 story corrects paragraph 30 to say that EuroChem produces roughly 5%, not roughly 10%, of world fertilizer output)

Radio France Internationale

Still no peace in Europe 25 years after signing of NATO-Russia Founding Act

On 27 May 1997, NATO and Russia signed a non-binding treaty that for years formed the foundation for cooperation between the two sides, separated between 1949 and 1989 by the Cold War's Iron Curtain. But today, not much is left of this early attempt to heal divisions between the former…

The Guardian - UK

115 Russian national guard soldiers sacked for refusing to fight in Ukraine

Cases involving Rosgvardia, known as Vladimir Putin’s private army, are clearest sign yet of dissent in Russian ranks

Al Jazeera

Ukrainians question the ease of Russian capture of Kherson

Many civilians in Kherson say key civilian and military officials ‘surrendered’ the region and that they feel abandoned.

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