Поток людей, уезжающих из России в связи с войной в Украине, был особенно силен в первые недели марта, хотя не прекращается до сих пор. Основная масса россиян в это время ехала в ближнее зарубежье, в страны постсоветского пространства.
Суд в Печоре оштрафовал на 30 тысяч рублей сотрудницу детского сада "Ёлочка" – Людмилу Зайченко – за "дискредитацию российской армии". Об это говорится на сайте суда.
Украинские пограничники сообщили о десяти обстрелах приграничных районов Черниговской и Сумской областей начиная с утра 29 мая.
Как утверждает погранслужба, приграничные районы Черниговской области обстреливали девять раз. Там насчитали более 30 взрывов российских снарядов. Еще 5 российских минометных мин прилетели на территорию Шосткинского района Сумской области, пишет Русская служба Би-би-си.
Певец, композитор, лидер российской группы "Машина времени" Андрей Макаревич после начала войны с Украиной уехал из России и сейчас живет в Израиле. Макаревич в последние годы занимал резко антипутинскую позицию, за что его подвергали критике многие российские политики и некоторые коллеги. Его концерты отменяли в России, а провластные СМИ несколько раз делали его героем своих обличительных пропагандистских кампаний.
The Czech Republic and Poland are sending additional weaponry to Ukraine as it struggles against a renewed Russian offensive in the eastern parts of the country, government officials and local media report.
Czech Defense Minister Jana Cernochova told public broadcaster CT on May 29 that Prague intends to soon send Kyiv armaments worth $26 million to $30 million.
"It's crucial that the aid is steady," she said, adding that the country has sent more than $150 million in military aid supplies since the start of Russia's invasion on February 24.
European Union negotiators failed to reach a deal on an embargo of Russian oil but will continue attempts to reach an accord before the beginning of an EU summit starting on May 30, an EU official said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is scheduled to address the summit through a video link to press efforts to intensify sanctions against Moscow to punish it for its invasion of his country.
EU countries are discussing a proposal in which member nations would accept a ban on Russian oil delivered to the EU by sea by the end of the year.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he has fired Kharkiv's top security services officer for not working hard enough on the city's defense since the beginning of Russia's February 24 invasion.
"I came, understood, and fired the head of the Security Service of Ukraine of the [Kharkiv] region for the fact that he did not work on the defense of the city from the first days of the full-scale war, but thought only about himself," Zelenskiy said in his daily address to the nation on May 29.
Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on May 28 that he was barred from leaving the country and accused the government of breaking a so-called political cease-fire in place since Russia invaded on February 24.
Poroshenko was in power from 2014 to 2019, and his European Solidarity party is the second-biggest party in Ukraine's parliament after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's ruling Servant of the People party.
Poroshenko was elected as the head of a pro-Western government after popular protests in 2014 ousted Russia-backed former President Viktor Yanukovych.
When Vladimir Putin took in a Paul McCartney concert on Red Square nearly two decades ago this month, Andrei Makarevich rocked out next to the Russian president as the ex-Beatle performed an encore of “Back In The U.S.S.R.”
Russian forces continued their offensive in eastern Ukraine, closing in on strategic towns and cities and shelling Kharkiv after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the northeastern city in his first trip outside Kyiv since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.
Russian forces increased the pressure on Syevyerodonetsk and Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine after claiming to take the nearby city of Lyman, with Ukrainian officials saying defenders were holding out under desperate conditions in those strategic areas.