A notice about the airspace closure was published on the U.S. Defense Department's NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) website on May 10, as cited by Ukrainian defense news outlet Militarnyi.
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.
Illustrative purposes only: The YouTube app seen on an Android portable device on Feb. 5, 2018. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Thousands of Russian users complained about a massive outage of the YouTube hosting service on Aug. 8, saying they could not access the website from Internet browsers or phones, according to local media.
This is only the latest in the series of reported YouTube outages across the country amid fears that the authorities may block the website entirely.
The sboy.rf monitoring service has recorded around 11,500 complaints at the time of the publication, with 20% of them recorded in Moscow and 8% in Saint Petersburg, the country's two largest cities.
Some commentators on the DTF platform reported that videos also do not load on YouTube mobile apps and Android.
The state-owned news agency RIA Novosti wrote that when trying to access YouTube, the browser displays a notification about a lack of connection.
It remains unclear whether the outage was a direct result of an intervention by Russian authorities.
The independent outlet Meduza wrote earlier this week that the Russian government informed the country's telecom operators that YouTube will be slowed down to 128 kilobytes a second.
For now, authorities have decided "not to turn off (YouTube) completely, but to slow it down significantly," Meduza's source said at the time.
The Russian pro-state outlet Gazeta.ru reported in July that the Russian government plans to block YouTube entirely in September, but Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov denied the supposed plans.
With 93 million Russian users, YouTube has been dubbed the country's "last bastion of free expression and information" amid a sweeping government crackdown on the information space.
Nate Ostiller
