Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov rejected the idea of a 30-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, claiming in an interview with ABC News on May 10 that it would be "an advantage" for Ukraine.
"Our involvement in the war was justifiable, and this belongs to our sovereign rights," North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un said. "I regard this as part of the sacred mission we must execute for our brothers and comrades-in-arms."
"We have a plan B and a plan C. But our focus is plan A, the essence of which is to get everyone's support" for Ukraine's accession, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.
"(T)he presence at the Victory Parade of a country that bombs cities, hospitals, and daycares, and which has caused the deaths and injuries of over a million people over three years, is a shame," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
"According to the participants of the performances, their goal is to remind the civilized world of the barbaric actions of Moscow, which for many years and decades has systematically violated international law," a source in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR) told the Kyiv Independent.
"I have great hope that an agreement for a ceasefire in Ukraine will be reached this weekend," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on May 9, shortly before traveling to Kyiv alongside the leaders of France, Poland, and the U.K.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will arrive in Kyiv early on May 10.
The United States embassy in Kyiv on May 9 issued a warning that Russia could launch "a potentially significant" attack in the coming days, despite Putin's self-declared Victory Day "truce."
The sanctioned oil tankers have transported over $24 billion in cargo since 2024, according to Downing Street. The U.K. has now sanctioned more shadow fleet vessels than any other country.
Yakubjoni Yusufzoda, the 10th suspect charged in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, is seen inside a defendant's cage during a hearing on pretrial restrictions at Basmanny district court in Moscow, Russia, on April 1, 2024. (Photo by Moscow's Basmanny District Court / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A Moscow court charged a tenth person, a native of Tajikistan, on April 1 in connection to the Crocus City Hall attack.
Several gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, a suburb of Moscow, on the evening of March 22, killing at least 144 people. A branch of the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack shortly thereafter.
Russian authorities detained 11 people in the first 24 hours following the attack. A court in Moscow charged four of the alleged perpetrators of the attack, all of whom are citizens of Tajikistan, with committing an act of terrorism on March 24.
An eighth suspect from Kyrgyzstan was brought into court in Russia on March 26.
The 10th suspect, named Yakubjoni Yusufzoda, is suspected of providing money and accommodation to the perpetrators of the attack, Russian authorities claimed.
Yusufzoda was initially arrested on March 25 for failing to obey orders from the police, but the charges were increased to being complicit in a terrorist attack, and was sentenced to two months of pre-trial detention.
The independent Russian news outlet Agentsvo wrote on April 1 that a Chechen man arrested in connection to the attack died in police custody shortly after his detention.
Katie Marie Davies
