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⚡️Polish President Duda arrives in Ukraine to address Ukrainian parliament.
President Andrzej Duda arrived in Ukraine on May 21 and will become the first head of a foreign state to deliver a speech to Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
Acknowledging that Kyiv's stance on the war was becoming more uncompromising, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said making concessions would backfire on Ukraine because Russia would hit back harder after any break in fighting https://t.co/M8iYCm8qBJ
Latest Russian joke:
- Putin's propagandists on TV said nuclear war is fine because patriotic Russians will go to Heaven. Heaven heard it and immediately applied to join NATO!
Germany and Italy have allowed their companies to open accounts in rubles to buy Russian gas - Reuters.
In turn, Poland, Bulgaria and Finland refused to comply with Moscow's demand, and gas supplies to these countries were suspended.
Thank you! Human life and freedom is worth it
#Russia Claims Capture of #Ukraine's #Mariupol, Ramps Up Assault in East - Russian Defense Minister Sergei #Shoigu told President Vladimir #Putin that both the #Azovstalsteelplant & the city had been "fully liberated,". https://t.co/4UZZSAfvBZ
⚡️ Russian media claim all Ukrainian defenders left Azovstal in Mariupol.
According to the Kremlin-controlled media, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Azovstal and the entire city of Mariupol was under Russian control.
Ukraine hasn't confirmed this.
⚡️Zelensky: Pilots risk their lives to deliver supplies to Azovstal.
Ukrainian pilots braved Russian anti-aircraft fire to bring humanitarian supplies to and retrieve the dead and wounded from Azovstal steel plant, Volodymyr Zelensky said in a televised address on May 20.
Today, Russian occupiers completed the removal of the bodies from the Drama Theater in Mariupol.
"Now we will never know how many civilians were actually killed by a Russian bomb at the Drama Theater," advisor to Mariupol mayor Petro Andriushchenko said
https://t.co/dk8CZ3sHwi
Pre-war Mariupol was emerging as one of Ukraine's cultural capitals - home to trendy bars, independent media and a proud LGBTQ+ community. Some believe Russian troops were more interested in destroying the city than capturing it. My report on what was lost https://t.co/mDE2Ivi9s9
It should be a matter of common decency for a foreigner to never suggest that 🇺🇦Ukraine should concede some territory to 🇷🇺Russia.
If @nytimes "editorial board" thinks there's a need for territorial concessions to Russia, it can try to suggest Alaska, but not Kherson.