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9 Newsorga stories on Ukraine, published from 2026-05-05 through 2026-05-11. Most of this coverage sits in World, Entertainment, and Politics. Newest first below.
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World
Vladimir Putin suggested former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as a go-between for Russia and the European Union on Ukraine. Foreign ministers meeting in Brussels treated the idea as dead on arrival, pointing to Schroeder’s years of paid proximity to Gazprom-era diplomacy.
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World
On day two of the three-day Victory Day truce that U.S. President Donald Trump brokered between Moscow and Kyiv to run from Saturday, May 9, 2026 through Monday, May 11, 2026, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly acknowledged that Russia has stopped large-scale air and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities and that Kyiv has held back its own long-range strikes 'in mirrorlike' restraint, while at the same time accusing the Russian side of 'not even trying' to honour the ceasefire along the front line — where Ukraine's General Staff recorded 147 battlefield clashes in 24 hours and regional governors reported three civilians killed in Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson; in parallel, Russia's Defence Ministry told state media in its Sunday briefing that it had logged 'more than 1,000' Ukrainian ceasefire violations across Crimea, Belgorod, Kursk, Kaluga, Rostov and Krasnodar, shot down 57 Ukrainian drones and 'responded in kind,' as Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov flagged an imminent Moscow visit by U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
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World
Prime Minister Evika Siliņa demanded Sprūds's resignation on Sunday, citing slow deployment of anti-drone systems and broader leadership problems at the defence ministry, three days after two stray Ukrainian drones came across the Russian border and damaged four empty oil tanks in Latgale.
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World
At a Kremlin press conference following Moscow’s Victory Day observances, Vladimir Putin said he would rather speak with Germany’s ex-chancellor than other European figures—adding conditions about tone toward Russia while Gerhard Schröder’s office stayed silent and Berlin withheld any formal mandate.
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World
Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters in Moscow on Saturday May 9, 2026 — Victory Day — that the war he launched against Ukraine more than four years ago was 'coming to an end,' even as he reaffirmed in his Red Square address that 'victory has always been and will be ours'; the parade itself was dramatically pared back, with no tanks, no nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles and no heavy weapons of any kind on display, the Kremlin confirmed a Donald-Trump-brokered three-day ceasefire would not be extended despite the US president's preference for a 'big extension,' and Volodymyr Zelensky issued an unusual decree 'permitting' Russia to hold the parade after agreeing Ukrainian forces would not target Red Square during the truce.
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Politics
Keir Starmer says joining Europe-linked financing for Ukraine is worth the cost because it supports Kyiv, strengthens UK-EU defence ties, and channels procurement toward British industry. The move comes as households remain squeezed by living-cost pressure and public patience is uneven.
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World
Moscow announced a short unilateral truce around Victory Day; Kyiv answered with an earlier ceasefire challenge and demands for a longer pause. The dueling announcements are part military signaling, part diplomatic positioning, and part information war.
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