Russia wants to bring Azovstal steel plant as a ‘gift’ to Putin ahead of Russia's May 9 holiday, Ukraine official says.
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In a statement on Telegram, Ukraine's intelligence service said that Mariupol would be used as"the center of celebrations," adding"the main avenues of the city are [being] urgently cleaned, the debris and the bodies of the dead removed, as well as unexploded ordnance.
Earlier this week, a period of snap drills by the Belarusian military near the border raised alarms in Ukraine. Lukashenko told AP that the drills"didn't threaten anyone."Kremlin says the U.S. providing intelligence to Ukraine won't stop Russia from achieving its goalsKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that Western attempts to transmit intelligence to Ukrainian armed forces will not prevent Russia from achieving its goals in Ukraine.
During his maiden visit to Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, Guterres warned that the war in Ukraine was"setting in motion a three-dimensional crisis that is devastating global food, energy and financial systems for developing countries." Four weeks ago, all men were removed from the Mariupol districts of Guglino, Myrnyi and Volonterivka, he said, with two thousand people being placed in schools and clubs of Bezimyane and Kozatske villages in Novoazovsk district.
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