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Japan to ban export of hi-tech goods to Russia from May 20 over Ukraine war

The list of the goods, banned for the exports to Russia, includes oil refining equipment, quantum computers, electron microscopes, atomic force microscopes and 3D printers

Trump slams Biden over $40 bn Ukraine aid, urges Europe to do more

Trump said he was able to get European countries to pay their fair share to NATO and the Biden administration should do the same

Russian threats push Finland towards NATO alliance, Sweden likely to follow

Finland's president and prime minister announced that the Nordic country should apply right away for membership in NATO, the military defence pact founded in part to counter the Soviet Union

Live: Sri Lanka has to 'get out of crisis', says new PM Wickremesinghe

Live news updates: From crisis in Sri Lanka and Ukraine, to the political developments back home and more, catch all the live updates on latest news here

Ukraine conflict: Russia's Putin says sanctions triggering global crisis

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Western sanctions against Russia are provoking a global economic crisis. Speaking during a Thursday meeting on economic issues, Putin said Western nations were driven by oversized political ambitions and Russophobia to introduce sanctions that hurt their own economies and well-being of their citizens. Putin charged that the sanctions are provoking a global crisis and will lead to grave consequences for the EU and also some of the poorest countries of the world that are already facing the risks of hunger. He alleged that the Western elites are ready to sacrifice the rest of the world to preserve their global domination. The Russian leader insisted the Russian economy has successfully withstood the blow from Western sanctions and that Russian companies will fill the niche left by the withdrawal of Western enterprises.

Live: Sri Lanka President says he will appoint new PM, cabinet this week

Live news updates: From the crisis in Sri Lanka and Ukraine to coronavirus developments and more, catch all the live updates here

Ukraine says Russia responsible for consequences after Europe gas flow ends

Ukraine said on Tuesday it would suspend the flow of gas through the Sokhranovka transit point.

'It's all in our military doctrine': Russia on possible nuclear strike

Ukraine pushes back troops in East; Biden signs Ukraine Bill, seeks $40 bn

Putin preparing for prolonged conflict in Ukraine, says US spy chief

'We assess Putin is preparing for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine during which he still intends to achieve goals beyond the Donbas,' US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told lawmakers

Vladimir Putin marks Victory Day with little to show for 11-week war

Many Western analysts had expected Putin to use the holiday to trumpet some kind of victory in Ukraine or announce an escalation, but he did neither.

Lithuania FM says only safe way for West, allies is regime change in Russia

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said Putin's annual Victory Day speech was underwhelming and that the gloomy faces of generals and others were signs of failing in the Ukraine war

Joe Biden signs Ukraine bill, seeks $40 billion aid in Putin rejoinder

Biden signed a bipartisan measure to reboot the World War II-era lend-lease programme to bolster Kyiv and Eastern European allies

War response to unacceptable threat, fight inevitable: Vladimir Putin

At Victory Day speech, says troops fighting for motherland but makes no major announcement

Putin seeks expert group on trade payments with allies, 'unfriendly' states

The group will look into payment terms in roubles and other national currencies with India and other Russian partners, although countries were not named.

Putin channels victory over Hitler to spur Russian army in Ukraine

He was addressing Russia on one of its most important annual holidays, when the nation honours the 27 million Soviet citizens who lost their lives in the struggle to defeat Adolf Hitler

Putin to mark Victory Day as Russian attack on Ukraine's Mariupol continues

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that worsening attacks could be linked to Victory Day, which marks Russia's greatest triumph, over Nazi Germany in 1945

Russia-Ukraine war: All civilians evacuated from Mariupol steel mill

The shattered survivors spoke of constant shelling, dwindling food, ubiquitous mold and using hand sanitiser for cooking fuel

New UK sanctions against Russia, Belarus target $2 billion worth of trade

The British government specified that Russia is one of the leading platinum and palladium producing countries and that its related imports to the United Kingdom had been significant

Evil has returned: Volodymyr Zelenskyy on World War II anniversary

"Decades after World War II, darkness has returned to Ukraine, and it has become black and white again," Zelenskyy said in a video address

Russia marks Victory Day in WWII even as war in Ukraine casts shadow

A recent poll by the respected independent Levada Center found that 82% of Russians remain concerned by the military campaign in Ukraine