Russia’s ongoing attack in the Donbas is anything but a blitzkrieg offensive that will decisively defeat Ukrainian forces. Why that is and what it means for the course of the war is the subject of intense speculation.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scheduled to announce further military aid for Ukraine in an address to the parliament in Kyiv the first by a foreign leader since Moscow's unprovoked invasion as Russia resumed its shelling of Mariupol after a group of evacuees left the besieged port city.
The war waged by Russia against Ukraine is creating devastating consequences for press freedom in the region, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on May 3 as it released its annual World Press Freedom Index.
Around 100 Ukrainian civilians evacuated from Mariupol are expected to arrive in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhya on May 2, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, but hundreds still remain in bunkers under the Azovstal steel plant in the besieged Sea of Azov port city.
Finnish group Fennovoima says it has canceled a contract on cooperating with Russian state-owned nuclear power giant Rosatom to supply a nuclear power plant, saying Moscow's war in Ukraine has "worsened" risks for the project.